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Next Generation 3D Optical Profiler

Zygo Corporation today announced its next-generation of leading 3D Optical Profilers, the NewView 7000-series. These products are designed for rapid, precise, and quantitative surface metrology for the production and scientific research markets.

14 Feb 2008

Report Describe Markets for Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Materials Markets for Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics to their offering.

11 Feb 2008

Nanoscale Drums Provide Insight into Quantum Physics

Forty years ago, mathematician Mark Kac asked the theoretical question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?"

9 Feb 2008

Printed Electronics Market Will Reach $30 Billion in 2015

Markets for displays, signage, lighting, RFID tags, sensors, solar panels, batteries and other products manufactured using printing technology will reach $30.1 billion by 2015 according to a new report from NanoMarkets.

8 Feb 2008

Breakthrough Technology Overcomes Installation Hurdles

Corning Incorporated today announced that Verizon Communications Inc. has purchased Corning's ClearCurve rugged drop cable solution as part of the telecommunications company's effort to roll out its FiOS services.

7 Feb 2008

Simultaneous Optical and Electronic Measurements on Same Molecule

In a study that could lay the foundation for mass-produced single-molecule sensors, physicists and engineers at Rice University have demonstrated a means of simultaneously making optical and electronic measurements of the same molecule.

6 Feb 2008

Transparent Electrodes from Carbon Nanotubes

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics-a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer's electrical conductivity by orders of magnitude, from an insulator to a conductor.

6 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Cryo-TEM Delivers Fast 3D Information

FEI Company has introduced a revolutionary, high-throughput, cryo transmission electron microscope (TEM) that combines high- throughput sample handling with state-of- the-art electron optics. It provides fast, fully-automated three-dimensional data about biological molecules and macromolecular complexes.

4 Feb 2008

Laser Accurately Identify Sizes of Particles

Researchers from St. Petersburg have designed and produced a device that enables to promptly and accurately identify the sizes of micro- and nano-particles. The laser ray illuminates the object in the device so that to judge about the particle sizes by intensity of light diffused by the particles.

3 Feb 2008