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Safe Quantum Communication Ready for Daily Use

Safe quantum communication will be ready for daily use with the world's first optical quantum cryptography network completed in east China's Anhui Province recently. The American journal Science reported about the result, which was published in the latest issue of Optic Express in April.

7 May 2009

Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin.

7 May 2009

Applied DNA Sciences Completes Pilot Study for IIMAK

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), a provider of DNA-based security solutions, announced today that it has successfully completed its pilot study of SigNature® DNA in IIMAK thermal transfer ink and ribbons.

7 May 2009

LOT-Oriel Introduces WITec Project Plus Software Package

WITec, a manufacturer of high-resolution Optical and Scanning Probe Microscopy solutions, has introduced the WITec Project Plus software package for advanced data evaluation and chemometric image processing.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 7 May 2009

Team Plans to Produce Quantum-Dot Based Materials Designed to Improve Solar Cells

QD Tech has won the $35,000 grand prize in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Innovation Challenge Final Business Plan Competition. The winning team plans to produce quantum-dot-based materials designed to imp...

7 May 2009

Leica Microsystems Develop Microscope System for Measuring Impurities

The cleanliness of high-performance safety-relevant components is an essential factor for reliability and a long lifetime. Leica Microsystems developed a microscope system for measuring impurities in cleaning liquids for micromechanic and motor components during production which has been used with great success for quantitative cleanliness analysis in the automobile and many other industries.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 6 May 2009

World's Smallest Incandescent Lamp with a Filament Made From Carbon Nanotube

In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics -- two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics -- a team from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy has created the world's smallest incandescent lamp.

6 May 2009

SVTC Technologies Raises $34 Million from Existing Investors

SVTC Technologies, a leading provider of development and commercialization services for silicon-based technologies, announced that the company has raised an additional $34 million from its existing investors, Oak Hill Ca...

6 May 2009

Summit Hightlights Nanotechnology, Energy and Environment

Technology experts from over 20 countries are in Edmonton, Alberta, for discussions on energy and the environment, topics of global importance and immediacy. The 15th Annual World Micromachine Summit is an international ...

6 May 2009

Sandia National Laboratories Researchers Scored Big in $777 Million Five-Year DOE EFRCs

Center researchers expect to investigate three areas: the conversion of electrical energy to light through radical designs involving luminescent nanowires, quantum dots, and hybrid structures; energy conversion processes in photonic structures smaller than the wavelength of the light they create; and understanding and eliminating defects in the semiconductor materials that presently limit solid-state lighting efficiency.

From Sandia National Laboratories 5 May 2009