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NanoMarkets Announces Report on Transparent Conductors Including Indium Tin Oxide and ITO Replacement

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced the addition of a new report to its schedule. The report, "Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductor Markets" will be released in Mid-March of 2009.

11 Feb 2009

Plasmonics - A Possible Replacement for Current Computing Approaches

Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are smaller than optically-based systems, according to a Penn State engineer who has developed a plasmonic switch.

11 Feb 2009

Breakthrough in the Science of Imaging and Sensing Nanoscale Objects

A collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Stanford University has demonstrated a breakthrough in optical nanoscopy, the science of imaging and sensing of nanoscale objects.

10 Feb 2009

Reference Book Introduces Topic of Photovoltaics in the Form of Flexible Solar Cells

With the decline in the world's natural resources, the need for new and cheaper energy sources is evolving. One such source is the sun which generates heat and light which can be harnessed and used to our advantage.

10 Feb 2009

Raising the Fundamental Power Conversion Limit of Solar Cells

A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication-when a photon creates multiple electrons-is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.

10 Feb 2009

CODIXX Extends Assortment of Standard AR Coatings for ColorPol Polarizers

CODIXX extends its assortment of standard AR (anti-reflection) - coatings for colorPol polarizers.

10 Feb 2009

James Webb Space Telescope's Actual 'Spine' Now Being Built

Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built.

9 Feb 2009

Project Endeavors to Create New and More Cost Effective Nanomaterials for Solar Cells

Leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems manufacturer Picosun Oy, Finland, takes part in an EU funded research project aiming at dramatically increasing the efficiency of solar cells.

9 Feb 2009

NanoViricides Update on Eye Drug Development

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), reported today that on-going negotiations with a large pharmaceutical company have now progressed to an advanced stage. The pharmaceutical company initially plans to evaluate NanoViricides's drug candidate for effectiveness against external ophthalmic diseases caused by two different virus types, namely herpes simplex virus (HSV) and adenovirus.

9 Feb 2009

New Widely Tunable Semiconductor Lasers Offer Wide Range of Applications

A single semiconductor laser chip with world-record wavelength tuning range of 200 nanometers - from 500 to 700 nanometers - has been demonstrated by a research team led by Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University.

8 Feb 2009