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Nanoscale Mass Sensor Can be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules

There's a new "gold standard" in the sensitivity of weighing scales. Using the same technology with which they created the world's first fully functional nanotube radio, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley have fashioned a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold.

29 Jul 2008

Partnership to Drive Acceleration of Semiconductor Technology Development

SEMATECH, the international consortium of semiconductor manufacturers that conducts and sponsors cooperative research and development of advanced semiconductor technology, and UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry,...

29 Jul 2008

Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market Will Reach $12 Billion in 2013

According to NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) market will grow from almost $2.4 billion ($US) in revenues in 2008 to over $12 billion in 2013. By 2015, NanoMarke...

29 Jul 2008

New Fabrication Method for Making Recyclable Nanostructured High Performance Magnets

Until now, producing Samarium Cobalt has been a difficult and expensive multi-step process. Northeastern University researchers have broken new ground with an innovative invention of a rapid, high-volume and cost-effective one-step method for producing pure Samarium Cobalt rare earth (RE) permanent magnet materials

29 Jul 2008

How Nanotechnology is Helping Address Growing Energy Needs

A research team from Purdue University's Discovery Park will travel to India next month to lead a joint India-United States workshop on how advancements in nanotechnology are helping address growing energy needs. ...

28 Jul 2008

Researchers Discover New States of Electrons that Behave Like Light

A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.

26 Jul 2008

LDK Solar Purchases Production Equipment from Chinese Company

LDK Solar Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to purchase production equipment from China-based JYT Corporation. Under this contract, LDK So...

25 Jul 2008

New Material Making Cars Even More Efficient by Turning Waste Heat into Electricity

Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material w...

25 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology May Hold Key to Improving Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Once limited to the electronics industry, semiconductor material may hold the key to improving early detection of prostate cancer among African-American men. Nanotechnology using quantum dots (QD) made from semicondu...

25 Jul 2008

Transistors From Networks of Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays and an electronic skin to cover an entire aircraft to monitor crack formation.

24 Jul 2008