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Veeco Launches VCM Optical Profiler Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leader in scientific and industrial metrology, today announced the launch of its Veeco Confocal Metrology (VCM™) Optical Profiler Systems.

From Veeco 26 May 2009

Pinpointing Multiple Objects with Nanometer Precision Over Distances up to 100KM

By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have buil...

24 May 2009

Presentation Highlights Importance of Basic Research and ONR's Legacy of Support for Innovative Scientists

Dr. William Phillips, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) funded Nobel Prize-winning physicist, delivered the final lecture at ONR's spring distinguished lecture series May 19.

22 May 2009

UC Riverside Assistant Professor Named Cottrell Scholar

Yadong Yin, an assistant professor of chemistry at UC Riverside, has been named a Cottrell Scholar - an honor that carries with it an award of $100,000 to further his research and teaching.

22 May 2009

SANYO Breaks Solar Cell Record

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) announced today it has broken its own record for the world’s highest energy conversion efficiency in practical size (100 cm2 or more) crystalline silicon-type solar cells, achieving a efficiency of 23.0% (until now 22.3%) at a research level for its proprietary HIT solar photovoltaic cells.

21 May 2009

Ultrafast Laser Research at K-State Allows Physicists to Build on Nobel Prize-Winning Work in Photo-Electronics

Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for hi...

21 May 2009

PI Opens Online Store to Better Support North American Customer Base

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion control equipment has opened an online store to better support its North American customer base.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 21 May 2009

Nanotechnology Microscope for Brain Studies

In a world first, Spain is to use a nanotechnology microscope for brain studies as part of the Blue Brain project. The initiative is CSIC researcher Javier de Felipe's brainchild, and researchers at the Universidad P...

21 May 2009

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. For the first time researchers from the university's Centre for Micro-Photonics have demonstrated how nanotechnology can enable the creation of 'five dimensional' discs with huge storage capacities.

20 May 2009

Nanotechnology Offers Unprecedented Advantage in Enhancing the Efficacy of Non-Viral Gene Delivery

University at Buffalo researchers have identified a new mechanism that plays a central role in adult brain stem cell development and prompts brain stem cells to differentiate into neurons. Their discovery, known as Integ...

20 May 2009