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New Way of Bending X-Ray Beams Could Lead to Greatly Improved Space Telescopes

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

12 Jun 2008

Half of the Sun's Power Lies in the Infrared

For solar cells to be useful, they need to be cheap, cover a large area, and be physically flexible, which are benefits of using solution-processed photovoltaics. Much of the current research in solution-processed photovoltaics is dedicated to optimizing solar conversion efficiency in the visible region of the spectrum.

10 Jun 2008

PI Extends Line of Piezo Stages for Scanning Microscopy Applications

PI (Physik Instrumente) has extended its line of piezo stages for scanning microscopy applications. The P-737 Piezo Z-Focusing Stage is offered along with the stiffer, P-726 high performance microscope lens focusing system for large NA microscope objectives and the redesigned P-686 XY piezo motor positioning stage providing long travel ranges to 25x25 mm.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 10 Jun 2008

ScanEagle Helps Warfighters Adapt to Conditions with Poor Visibility

The Boeing Company, in partnership with ImSAR and Insitu Inc., achieved a major milestone in May with the real-time processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA) equipped with a standard inertially stabilized electro-optical (EO) camera.

10 Jun 2008

Revolutionizing the Worlds of Computing and Communications

The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference organised by the European Science Foundation in collaboration with the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich (FWF) and the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (LFUI).

5 Jun 2008

An Innovative Recipe for Giant Telescope Mirrors on the Moon

Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.

4 Jun 2008

Physicians Say Sedationless Transnasal Endoscopy is Now Practical

Vision-Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has launched to the global gastroenterology market its new video-based flexible esophagoscope at the Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference in San Diego, California.

4 Jun 2008

Q-Factor Results for Norcada's Silicon Nitride Membrane Windows.

Norcada Inc., a MEMS product development company, announced today that reports out of Yale University show successful Q-factor results for Norcada's silicon nitride membrane windows.

2 Jun 2008

New Quantitative AFM Mode for High-Resolution Material Mapping

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced HarmoniXTM, a powerful new atomic force microscope (AFM) technique for high-resolution nanoscale imaging and analysis. Veeco's HarmoniX Nanoscale Material Property Mapping enables AFM users to simultaneously, and in real-time, acquire high-resolution images as well as high-resolution, quantitative material property maps.

From Veeco 2 Jun 2008

AZoCleantech - The 6th Site in the AZoNetwork Portfolio

The 6th site in the AZoNetwork portfolio builds on the success of AZoM.com the A to Z of Materials, AZoNano.com - the A to Z of Nanotechnology and AZoOptics.com - the A to Z of Optics.

1 Jun 2008

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