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Scanning Photon Microscope Launched

The Fraunhofer IPMS presents an alternative to laser scanning microscopy with its “Scanning Photon Microscope”. It works on a similar principle but uses a two-dimensional resonant microscanning mirror developed at the Fraunhofer IPMS for the deflection of light

30 May 2008

Swedish Nanotechnology Researchers Make Complex Nanostructures With Laser Light

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an ...

29 May 2008

Researchers Trying to Flip Electron Spin Find Electron Switch

University of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds (a trillionth of a second) instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin -- knowledge that may prove us...

29 May 2008

Rice Alliance Life Science Venture Forum Names CytoViva “Most Promising Life Science Technology Company”

CytoViva, Inc. was named one of the top ten most promising Life Science companies at the 7th Annual Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship Life Science Venture Forum in Houston last week. Life Science compan...

29 May 2008

Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science

28 May 2008

New Book on Nanotechnology and Nanotubes Set to Make the Complex World of the Super Small Easy to Understand

When Sandia's Francois Leonard explains the physics of carbon Leonard has written a book on the subject to be published later this summer

28 May 2008

Electron Avalanche Effect in Semiconductors to lead to Cheap, High Output Solar Cells

Researchers at TU Delft and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small semiconducting crystals. This...

27 May 2008

Laser Particle Size Analyzer Wins Innovation Award

The FRITSCH Laser Particle Sizer ANALYSETTE 22 NanoTec has been selected to receive an Innovation Award from a field of over 600 applicants.

27 May 2008

CRAIC Technologies QDI 2010 Microspectrophotometer Detects and Analyzes Trace Contaminants with a Single Instrument

CRAIC Technologies, Inc., a global leader in application-focused microanalysis solutions, provides the capability to both detect and analyze trace contaminants with a single instrument. This is done by combining both ultraviolet microscopy with ultraviolet microspectroscopy in the CRAIC Technologies QDI 2010™ microspectrophotometer equipped with the optional QDI ImageUV™ package

26 May 2008

Nanotechnology Facility Ductwork for Super Clean Air Close to Completion

Technicians from Senior Hargreaves are close to completing the installation of environment and process ventilation ductwork systems at Southampton University's £55 million Mountbatten Building. The new building...

26 May 2008