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New Report Sheds Light on Global Quantum Dots Market

MarketsandMarkets has released a new research report titled ‘Quantum Dots (QD) Market - Global Forecast & Analysis (2012 - 2022).’

21 May 2012

Irish Nanoscience Research to Contribute to New Wave of Next Generation Computers

Located within the campus of Trinity College Dublin, CRANN is a Science Foundation Ireland-funded nanoscience institute. Together with University College Cork, CRANN researchers have carried out research to develop materials for expedite novel method of producing silicon chips.

19 May 2012

Quantum Dot LEDs Produce Multiple Colours From a Single Material

Engineers at Brown University and QD Vision Inc. have created nanoscale single crystals that can produce the red, green, or blue laser light needed in digital displays.

17 May 2012

Study Results Help Better Understand Matter-Light Interactions

Kansas State University scientists and an international team of researchers are now able to observe double ionization events at attosecond timescale, thus paving the way to better understand the interactions between light and matter.

17 May 2012

New Plasmonic Material Help Develop Advanced Optical Devices

Purdue University researchers have discovered a way to synthesize metamaterials without using conventional gold or silver, which are expensive and incompatible with semiconductor production processes.

17 May 2012

Scientists Measure Electron’s Quantum Phase Using Precisely Customized Laser Pulses

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are now able to study an electron’s removal from an atom by a powerful laser beam with a time resolution of below 10 as.

16 May 2012

Nanotrons’ Layer-by-layer Assembly System to Make Optical Coatings

Nanotrons announced the availability of an automated coating system called the spray assisted layer-by-layer assembly system (SPALAS) that employs a layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly process to fabricate nano-enabled optical coatings.

14 May 2012

Major Japanese Company to Use Nanoco’s Quantum Dots for LED Applications

Nanoco Group, which develops and produces nanomaterials such as cadmium-free quantum dots, has announced the successful production of a batch of 1 kg green cadmium-free quantum dots for a key company based in Japan, generating $2million in revenues for Nanoco.

11 May 2012

Researchers Find New Way to Brighten White-Light Quantum Dots

A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.

10 May 2012

NASA Awards Phase II Grant to Boston Micromachines for Space Imaging Research

NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program has awarded a $750,000 Phase II contract to Boston Micromachines, a company specializing in adaptive optics systems and MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products, to assist NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program.

From Boston Micromachines Corporation 9 May 2012

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