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Pillar Bump and OptoCooler Module Receives Awards from Two Leading Technology Magazines

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, continues to receive industry accolades for its technology innovation excellence.

29 Jul 2008

Veeco's MOCVD Business Receives Order from Leading Manufacturer of Space Solar Cells

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that during the recently completed second quarter the Company received a multi-unit order for its TurboDisc K-475 As/P (arsenic phosphide) metal organic chemical vapor (MOCVD) depos...

29 Jul 2008

New Instrument Combines Traditional Computer-Chip Technology with Microfluidics

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

29 Jul 2008

Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping Together

In a conventional sewage works, nanoparticles should really be bound in the sludge and should not represent a major problem in the aqueous effluent. This is not true, however, as shown by a new study of the ceramic model material cerium dioxide. An astonishing amount was able to leave an experimental sewage works and thus could possibly enter bodies of water.

28 Jul 2008

Research Part of Ontario's Plan to Build an Innovation Economy

Research aimed at quickly detecting contamination in food, water and soil and improving early childhood learning for children with mathematical and reading difficulties are two of the 10 projects at The University of Wes...

27 Jul 2008

Smaller and Faster are Two Goals in Today’s Electronics Market

Smaller and faster are two goals in today's electronics market and an article in an international trade publication shows how North Dakota State University researchers, Fargo, design and build such electronics packages.

26 Jul 2008

One-Step Repeatable Method for Producing Functional Nanoscale Patterns

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "p...

26 Jul 2008

Measuring Atomic Spacings Down to a Few Picometres

Julich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters determining the physical properties of materials directly on an atomic level in a microscope. Knut Urban from Forschungszentrum Julich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, reports on this in the latest issue (25 July) of the scientific high-impact journal Science.

25 Jul 2008

Trapping Monolayer of Colloidal Particles in a Laser Lattice with Aperiodic Structure

Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form in certain materials, called quasicrystals. Physicists from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute of Metals Research have succeeded in trapping a monolayer of colloidal particles, tiny plastic spheres, in a laser lattice with an aperiodic structure.

25 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology May Hold Key to Improving Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Once limited to the electronics industry, semiconductor material may hold the key to improving early detection of prostate cancer among African-American men. Nanotechnology using quantum dots (QD) made from semicondu...

25 Jul 2008