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Carl Zeiss Successfully Tests Next Generation Photomask Metrology System

Carl Zeiss’ SMS (Semiconductor Metrology Systems) division and SEMATECH announced that the former’s photomask overlay and registration metrology system has cleared a major milestone.

31 Jul 2010

JILA Uses Infrared Laser Light to Heat Nano Bathtub

JILA has showed the infrared laser light use in the precise and fast heating of water in small sample containers (nano bathtubs) for the microscopy analysis of the biochemistry of nanoparticles and single molecules.

28 Jul 2010

Researchers Devise New Method to Treat Cancer Using Lasers and Nanoparticles

Researchers from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have found a way to treat cancer. The new method uses lasers to brighten tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors.

28 Jul 2010

CALIENT Announces New Strategy for Expanding Photonic Switching Market

The adaptive photonic switching company CALIENT Technologies announced the new CALIENT 3D MEMS Inside strategy for its photonic switching technology market expansion.

27 Jul 2010

DiCon Announces Completion of 3 Billion Toggling Cycles by its Optical Filter

DiCon Fiberoptics has announced that the samples of its Optical Bandpass Filter have accomplished three billion toggling cycles on full tuning range.

26 Jul 2010

TU-e Researchers Use Nanotechnology to Develop High-Efficient Solar Cells

Solar cells that possess an efficiency of more than 65% will be developed by TU/e researchers by using nanotechnology.

25 Jun 2010

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Proposes New Surface Nanostructuring Technique

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has furnished the experimental results of metal ultrashort laser ablation in vacuum, and plasmonics and surface nanostructuring. Molecular dynamics (MD) based numerical model is developed. The numerical model explains the interaction of laser pulse with metal target.

15 Jun 2010

Researchers Use Microscope to Move Single Quantum Dot Precisely

Quantum dots may be small. But they usually don’t let anyone push them around. Now, however, JQI Fellow Edo Waks and colleagues have devised a self-adjusting remote-control system that can place a dot 6 nanometers long to within 45 nm of any desired location.

24 May 2010

New Optics-Based Method for DNA Sequencing

Sequencing DNA could get a lot faster and cheaper – and thus closer to routine use in clinical diagnostics – thanks to a new method developed by a research team based at Boston University.

20 May 2010

New Gold-Based Microlens Enhances Infrared Imaging Technology

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful satellite cameras and night-vision devices.

19 May 2010