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Nanotechnology Provider Signs Contract to Deliver Prototype Batteries for U.S. Army

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced nanomaterials technology used in power and energy systems and other applications, today announced that it has signed a $350,000 contract through the U.S. Army&...

7 Aug 2008

Flexible Web of Micro-Sensors Enables Eye-Shaped Camera

Instead of using a flat microchip as the light sensor for their new camera, a team of engineers has developed a sensor that is a flexible mesh of wire-connected pixels. The mesh is made from many of the same material...

7 Aug 2008

Harvard and Oxford Nanopore Announces Agreement to Progress Nanopore Science

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd today announced an agreement to progress nanopore science by integrating Harvard discoveries with technology in development a...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 6 Aug 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Improve Performance of Solar Cell

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Offering Additional Argon Ion Beam Column to NVison 40

To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Aug 2008

World's First All-Integrated Sensor Circuit Based on Nanowire Arrays

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

5 Aug 2008

Funding to Increase Production and Enhance Market Penetration of Quantum Dot Lasers

Innolume, the leading provider of quantum dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1000 nm to 1320 nm optical spectrum, today announced that it secured a Series C round of financing for €8.6 million. The round...

5 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes.

2 Aug 2008

STMicroelectronics to Sponsor of EMPC 2009

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers and a world leader in MEMS and power ICs, is to be the principal sponsor of EMPC 2009, the 17th European Microelectronics And Packaging Con...

From STMicroelectronics 1 Aug 2008

Nanoscale Lithium Iron Phosphate Holds Key to Tomorrow's Electric Car Batteries

Why does lithium iron phosphate, a candidate for use in future lithium batteries, conduct electricity despite being an insulating material? Chemists at CNRS, working in collaboration with a team from CEA-Liten, have shed light on this paradox.

1 Aug 2008