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How Jan Hendrik Schön's Fraud Shook the Scientific World

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to th...

5 May 2009

University of Arizona in Tucson Home to New Energy Frontier Research Center

The University of Arizona in Tucson will become the home of a $15 million Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, one of 46 new centers of its kind announced this week.

5 May 2009

Early Detection Pancreatic Cancer using Nanotechnology

Pancreatic cancer has a devastatingly low survival rate (less than five percent after five years) because it is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage. The initial symptoms, such as pain, jaundice or weight loss, often d...

5 May 2009

NIST Physicist Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Physicist James C. Bergquist, a Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) whose research helped usher in the age of optical atomic clocks, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.

5 May 2009

Scientists Discover Activation Energy of Impurities in Semiconductor Nanowires is Affected by Surrounding Dielectric

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energ...

5 May 2009

Carbon Nanotube Coating Enable Copper Instrument to Withstand the Intensity of Military Lasers

The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

5 May 2009

Argonne National Laboratory Researcher Named Recipient of USPAS Prize

U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory researcher John W. Lewellen was recently named a recipient of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Prize in Accelerator Physics and Technology.

From Argonne National Laboratory 5 May 2009

Axio Imager Setting New Standards in Materials Microscopy

The second generation of the Axio Imager microscope system from Carl Zeiss is setting new standards in materials microscopy. Whether in quality testing and assurance, in materials analysis or the development of future materials - optical quality, performance and comfort are the major benefits of the Axio Imager. The

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 May 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for Two New MOCVD Systems from China's CIOMP

AIXTRON AG today announced that CIOMP, the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics + Physics, based in P.R. China, has ordered two new MOCVD systems: one AIX 200/4 and one AIX 200/4 RF-S.

From AIXTRON SE 5 May 2009

New Systems for Materials Research and Quality Inspection

At CONTROL 2009 to be held in Stuttgart from May 5-8, 2009, Carl Zeiss will introduce its proven and new microscope solutions for materials research, quality inspection and routine applications. For the first time, S...

5 May 2009