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Precisely Placed Atoms Used to Create World's Smallest Movie

Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named "A Boy and His Atom," the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS -verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of stop-motion action.

2 May 2013

New Report on Global Markets and Technologies for Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Markets and Technologies for Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging -- Focus on Scanning Probe Microscopy

2 May 2013

Novel Circuit Topologies Will Address Challenges Due to Nanometer Transistor Scaling

Dr. Sam Palermo, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

29 Apr 2013

SENSIMED Triggerfish Contact Lens to Be Presented in Ocular Nanotechnology Poster Sessions at ARVO 2013

Sensimed AG, announced today that 10 scientific publications reporting outcomes of clinical studies investigating the use of SENSIMED Triggerfish® will be presented at ARVO 2013. The company developed the SENSIMED Triggerfish®, a revolutionary contact lens for the continuous recording of the 24-hour intraocular pressure (IOP) pattern to facilitate the management of glaucoma.

25 Apr 2013

Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication 2013 Conference to Take Place in May

Registration is open for the 57th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), which brings together engineers and scientists from industries all over the world to discuss recent progress and future trends in nanofabrication, including nanoimprint and molecular self-assembly.

24 Apr 2013

KMLabs’s Ultrafast Amplifier for Nanoscience Applications Wins CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

The CLEO: 2013 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World today announced KMLabs (Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories) as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

24 Apr 2013

Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Helps Detect Early Presence of Ovarian Cancer

Pioneering biophotonics technology developed at Northwestern University is the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer in humans by examining cells easily brushed from the neighboring cervix or uterus, not the ovaries themselves.

23 Apr 2013

DSS 2013: NP Photonics to Debut Mid-Infrared Transport Fiber

NP Photonics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and specialty optical fiber, today announced that it will introduce a mid-infrared (IR) transport fiber at the Defense, Security, and Sensing (DSS) 2013 exhibition from April 30 to May 2, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland.

23 Apr 2013

New Nanoscale Device Converts Optical Signal into Waves That Travel along a Metal Surface

A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface. Significantly, the device can recognize specific kinds of polarized light and accordingly send the signal in one direction or another.

23 Apr 2013

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit, it posits that the ultimate conversion efficiency can never exceed 34 percent for a single optimized semiconductor junction.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Apr 2013

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Precisely Placed Atoms Used to Create World's Smallest Movie

New Report on Global Markets and Technologies for Molecular, Nanoscale and Atomic Imaging

Novel Circuit Topologies Will Address Challenges Due to Nanometer Transistor Scaling

SENSIMED Triggerfish Contact Lens to Be Presented in Ocular Nanotechnology Poster Sessions at ARVO 2013

Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication 2013 Conference to Take Place in May

KMLabs’s Ultrafast Amplifier for Nanoscience Applications Wins CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Helps Detect Early Presence of Ovarian Cancer

DSS 2013: NP Photonics to Debut Mid-Infrared Transport Fiber

New Nanoscale Device Converts Optical Signal into Waves That Travel along a Metal Surface

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

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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