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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Awarded Grants to Boost Nuclear Engineering Education and Research

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded two grants totaling $850,000 to boost nuclear engineering education, research, and workforce development at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The competitive grants, awar...

2 Sep 2008

S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems to be Called Bruker Nano After Acquisition

Bruker AXS GmbH announces the closing of its acquisition of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH, located near Aachen, Germany. S.I.S. develops, manufactures and distributes advanced atomic force/scanning probe microscopy...

1 Sep 2008

FEI Releases New X-FEG Electron Source Module for Titan Family of S/TEMs

FEI Company, a leading provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, today released its new extreme field emission gun (X-FEG) electron source module for the Titan(TM) family of scanning transmission electron microscopes (S/TEMs). The new technology combines higher brightness - previously available only with more complex cold field emission - with the high, ultra-stable current of thermally-assisted field emission.

1 Sep 2008

Molecular Imaging to Play Key Role in Disease Detection and Therapy Response

Molecular imaging aims at the use of imaging probes to visualize specific cellular or sub cellular processes that occur before changes in morphology and function. This is highly relevant because impairments of such proce...

1 Sep 2008

Joint Effort to Develop New Materials for Plastic Photovoltaic Solar Panel

Quantumatica Srl, specializing in quantum optical effects and liaison with the academia R+D, has signed an agreement with a large American university for the development of a new polymer with photovoltaic properties suit...

1 Sep 2008

Scientists Produced Image at the Highest Resolution Ever Achieved with X-Ray Light

A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the ESRF in Grenoble (France) has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever achieved with X-ray light. A 100-nanometre gold particle fixed on a substrate was reconstructed with 5 nanometre resolution.

30 Aug 2008

NanoGram Selects OTB as a Contributing Partner for SilFoil Solar Pilot Plant

NanoGram Corporation, a leading developer and licensor of advanced products and solutions for optical, electronic and energy applications, today announced that it has selected OTB as one of its contributing partners in b...

29 Aug 2008

New Insight into the Tiny World of Activity Taking Place Within Single Cells

Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a unique technology that will allow scientists to look at microscopic activity within the body’s chemical messenger system for the very first time, live as...

29 Aug 2008

University of Washington to Acquire Key Instrument for Nanotechnology Research

The University of Washington will acquire an electron beam lithography machine, a key instrument required to build devices at the nanometer scale.

29 Aug 2008

Measuring the Thickness of Deposition Layer During OLED in-Line Evaporation

In collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) in Dresden, Germany, LayTec has adopted its spectral reflectometer EpiR DA to an OLED in-line evaporation system to monitor UV-VIS reflectivity spectra of individual layers during production process.

28 Aug 2008