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DuPont Plans to Expand Production Capacity of High-Performance Tedlar Films

As a leading supplier of materials to the photovoltaic solar industry, DuPont today announced its intent to expand production capacity for its high-performance DuPont(TM) Tedlar(R) films. Scope and site selection work is under way, targeting start-up in late 2009, pending final project approval.

3 Sep 2008

Teradyne to Acquire Leading Provider of Semiconductor Test Products

Teradyne, Inc. and Eagle Test Systems, Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Teradyne will acquire Eagle Test. Teradyne is a world leader in System-On-a-Chip (SOC) semiconductor...

2 Sep 2008

IMEC and CEA-LETI Announce Launch of ePIXfab

IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and ...

From CEA-Leti 2 Sep 2008

Work Could Aid in Diagnostics and Drug Testing

In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

2 Sep 2008

A Real-Time Analysis of Early Diagnosis of Cancer Markers

A research project entitled "A real-time analysis of the early diagnosis of cancer markers", undertaken by the CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), recently passed the acceptance check by an exp...

2 Sep 2008

Top Ten List Highlights Most Influential IP Lawyers in Nanotechnology

Charles F. Wieland III, a shareholder in the Intellectual Property practice at Buchanan Ingersoll + Rooney's Alexandria office, was named to Nanotechnology Law + Business' Top Ten list. The list was published in ...

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

IMEC to Develop High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Using Plextronics' Materials and Inks

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreem...

From IMEC 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

Advent Solar Announces Industry's First Cell-to-Module Solar Architecture

Advent Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of innovative solar cells and modules, today announced the solar industry's first cell-to-module solar architecture -- Advent Solar(R) Ventura(TM) Technology. Ventura Solar Technolo...

1 Sep 2008