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PI Release New Catalog on Piezoelectric Motors

PI (Physik Instrumente), a leading manufacturer of piezo positioning equipment has released a new catalog on piezoelectric motors. The 70 page brochure covers three different types of piezo motors - inertial motors, often referred to as stick slip motors, ultrasonic motors and stepping (walk) type motors.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 4 Oct 2012

Researchers Model Structure of a Sea Urchin's Spine

For the first time, a team of Australian engineers at the University of New South Wales has modelled the microscopic mechanics of a sea urchin’s spine, gaining insight into how these unusual creatures withstand impacts in their aquatic environment.

3 Oct 2012

New Optical Technique to Monitor and Control Semiconductor Etching Process

A research team led by Professors Gabriel Popescu and Lynford Goddard from the University of Illinois has developed an inexpensive technique using a special kind of microscope to etch delicate features on the surface of semiconductors, while simultaneously monitoring the entire process in real time with nanoscale resolution.

29 Sep 2012

NTS Reports Successful Metallization of Optical Images in Commercial-Scale Run

Nanotech Security (NTS), a producer of advanced authentication and security features utilizing optics based on nanotechnology, announced that it has achieved a high speed production run of metallized optical images.

25 Sep 2012

Olympus Launch New IX3 Inverted Microscope IX3 Series

Olympus has released the innovative new IX3 series of inverted research microscope systems for effortless, intuitive live cell imaging and clinical analysis.

24 Sep 2012

Advanced X-Rays Reveal the Cause of Discoloration in Van Gogh Painting

Scientists have used powerful X-ray beams to find out the cause of color degradation in a Van Gogh painting. Certain parts in the "Flowers in a blue vase" painting have changed in color, which is suspected to be due to a varnish coating which had been applied for protection.

15 Sep 2012

Daylight Solutions Receives Grant from National Science Foundation for its Patented Infrared Microscope

Daylight Solutions. offers imaging and molecular detection systems that find their application in medical diagnostics, scientific research, defense, and even in commercial markets. Years of hard research has made the company come out with the development of infrared microscopes that use a special patented technology in the application of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs).

13 Sep 2012

TESCAN Announces Delivery of 1000th VEGA-3 Variable Pressure SEM

TESCAN, a major manufacturer and provider of focused ion beam workstations and scanning electron microscopes, has announced the delivery of its 1000th VEGA-3 variable pressure scanning electron microscope to the Geosciences Department of the University of Montana.

12 Sep 2012

Rice University Researchers Advocate Photoluminescent Probes to Enhance DNA Analysis

Angel Martí, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering and Kewei Huang, his graduate student in the Rice University have been involved in the study of fluorescent spectroscopy to detect the DNA structure of any molecule. The paper presented by the researchers has been presented in Analytical Chemistry, a journal of American Chemical Society.

10 Sep 2012

Carl Zeiss Microscopy Embark on World Tour of Universities

ZEISS on Your Campus (ZOYC) by Carl Zeiss is a traveling tour bringing free microscopy workshops to universities and institutes throughout the world and has attracted more than 2000 attendees since. The tour was launched in 2009 in the United States and was expanded to Europe, Asia and Latin and South America this year, beginning in March.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 7 Sep 2012