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High-Performing Photoconducting Material that Uses Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manu...

18 Mar 2009

nLIGHT Introduces New Highly Doped, Photodarkening Resistant Ytterbium Fibers

nLIGHT Corporation (nLIGHT) announced today the availability of new highly doped, photodarkening resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent (%) higher absorption at 920 nanometer (nm) and pump conversion efficienci...

18 Mar 2009

Researchers Develop New Technique for Growing Slimmer Copper Nanorods

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.

17 Mar 2009

AIXTRON Announces Delivery of Three MOCVD Systems to Chinese Company

AIXTRON AG today announced the delivery of three Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) CRIUS MOCVD systems for the production of Gallium Nitride (GaN) LEDs to Aqualite Co. Ltd., a company based in Wuhan, China. The three CC...

From AIXTRON SE 17 Mar 2009

Leading ALD Systems Manufacturer Opens New Lab, R+D and Production Facility

Leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems manufacturer Picosun Oy, Finland, has opened a new laboratory, R+D and production facility in Kirkkonummi, some 30 kilometres West of Helsinki city centre.

17 Mar 2009

Technology Executive and Entrepreneur Joins NanoMech as Chairman of the Board

James M. Phillips has been elected chairman of the board of directors of NanoMech, a Fayetteville-based designer and manufacturer of application-specific nanoparticle additives, coatings and coating deposition systems.

16 Mar 2009

Major Advances to Lower the Costs of Solar Cells

Applied Materials, Inc. today released its Applied HCT MaxEdge™ wire saw, a new platform for slicing ingots into ultra-thin wafers that can help customers drive down the cost of manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) cells by up to $0.18 per watt.

16 Mar 2009

Small Organic Molecules with High Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities May Speed Internet Access

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes wil...

15 Mar 2009

Project Turning to Nanotechnology to Dramatically Ramp Up Efficiency of Solar Cells

A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells. Called ROD-SOL ('All-inorganic nano-rod based thin-film solar cells on glass').

14 Mar 2009

Amtech Systems Receives $3 Million in Follow-On Solar Orders

Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsi...

From Amtech Systems 11 Mar 2009