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Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metal Nanoparticles Could Improve Sensitivity of Detecting Molecules at Low Concentrations

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that the surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles in a periodic array can have cons...

15 Nov 2008

Nanobamas - 3-D Portraits of the President-Elect Smaller than a Grain of Salt

A University of Michigan professor has created 3-D portraits of the president-elect that are smaller than a grain of salt. He calls them "nanobamas."

15 Nov 2008

Researchers Succeeded in Developing a High-Sensitivity THz Detector on a Chip

Now Yukio Kawano and Koji Ishibashi from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako have succeeded in developing a high-resolution and high-sensitivity THz detector on a chip.

14 Nov 2008

Nontoxic Nanoparticle Developed at Penn State is Proving to be an All-Around Effective Delivery System

Now a nontoxic nanoparticle developed by researchers at Penn State University is proving to be an all-around effective delivery system for both therapeutic drugs and the fluorescent dyes that can track their delivery.

14 Nov 2008

Method Could be Used to Create Custom-Made Chemical Compounds

Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' b...

14 Nov 2008

Slow Cooling of Electrons in Nanocrystals Could Lead to Better Photovoltaic Devices

University of Chicago scientists have induced electrons in the nanocrystals of semiconductors to cool more slowly by forcing them into a smaller volume. This has the potential to improve satellite communications and the ...

14 Nov 2008

Engineers Develop SmartSPM - New Fully Automated Scanning Probe Microscope

Scanning probe microscopy approved itself the most effective technology for studying objects of nano-size and properties of surfaces with super-resolution. Today the field of nanotechnology generates tasks, which become ...

13 Nov 2008

Fujitsu Microelectronics Announces Availability of 65nm RF CMOS Process Design Kit

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA) today announced the availability of 65nm RF CMOS manufacturing services with the introduction of an advanced Process Design Kit (PDK) to enable first-pass silicon success. The...

13 Nov 2008

Cutting-Edge "Tweezers" for Detecting and Measuring Very Small Concentrations of Biological Substance

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has licensed a patented "optical tweezers" technique for detecting and measuring very small concentrations of a biological substance-such as a virus on a surface.

13 Nov 2008

New Method of Focusing a Stream of Ions into a Point as Small as One Nanometer

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer (one billionth of a meter).

13 Nov 2008

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metal Nanoparticles Could Improve Sensitivity of Detecting Molecules at Low Concentrations

Nanobamas - 3-D Portraits of the President-Elect Smaller than a Grain of Salt

Researchers Succeeded in Developing a High-Sensitivity THz Detector on a Chip

Nontoxic Nanoparticle Developed at Penn State is Proving to be an All-Around Effective Delivery System

Method Could be Used to Create Custom-Made Chemical Compounds

Slow Cooling of Electrons in Nanocrystals Could Lead to Better Photovoltaic Devices

Engineers Develop SmartSPM - New Fully Automated Scanning Probe Microscope

Fujitsu Microelectronics Announces Availability of 65nm RF CMOS Process Design Kit

Cutting-Edge "Tweezers" for Detecting and Measuring Very Small Concentrations of Biological Substance

New Method of Focusing a Stream of Ions into a Point as Small as One Nanometer

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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