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Using Lasers to Produce Nanomaterials

With the predicted ramping up of nanotechnology based materials over the next decade, expectations are high that demand for high-tech materials will also skyrocket. Already the evidence is present for a revolution in the manufacture of materials based on nano-engineered structures.

19 Mar 2008

Effectively Dissipating Heat in Small Spaces

Already credited with making vapor chambers (a once exotic heat sink technology) thin, light and affordable, Celsia Technologies today introduces its second generation NanoSpreader.

18 Mar 2008

Developers of Projection Systems Get A Boost with New Laser Combiner Developers Kit

Developers of projection systemns are set to get a boost with the availability of a developers kit from Agilent Technologies that will assist them improve cost, maintenance requirements and the overall viewing experience.

18 Mar 2008

Uni Surrey High Power Laser Zap to Nanotechnology

Scientists at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) of the University of Surrey and at the School of Chemistry in the University of Bristol have been awarded funding of nearly £0.87M from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to investigate techniques using high-power, short-pulsed lasers for the production of important nanomaterials, including nanoclusters, nanotubes and nanorods of carbon and zinc oxide, with controllable electrical and optical properties.

18 Mar 2008

Signet Solar Expands Manufacturing in India

Signet Solar, a manufacturer of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced plans to locate its second manufacturing site in the Sriperembudur Special Economic Zone near Chennai, India.

18 Mar 2008

New Opportunities Rapidly Emerge in Energy Efficient Solid-State Lighting

Lighting utilizing organic light emitting diodes (OLED) could benefit from printing as a manufacturing technique because it can add to its cost effectiveness, says a new report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm.

17 Mar 2008

Sunovia to Commercialize Solar and Infrared Technologies in Joint Partnership

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. and EPIR Technologies, Inc. (EPIR) are pleased to announce the completion of Phase I of the expansion of the world class Electro-Optic manufacturing facilities at EPIR in Bolingbrook, Ill., just west of Chicago.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 15 Mar 2008

Laser Lab Enable Researchers to Change the Face of Medicine

Many people equate lasers with a sci-fi battle in a galaxy far, far away or, closer to home, with grocery store scanners and compact disc players.

13 Mar 2008

A Single-Crystal Semiconductor Inside an Optical Fiber

An international science team from Penn State University in the United States and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom has developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber.

13 Mar 2008

Joint-Development Agreement to Bring TiO2-Based Nanowires to Market

Today, IP2Biz LLC of Atlanta and International Speciality Chemicals Ltd. (ISC) of London, announced a joint-development agreement for the purpose of bringing titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based nanowires to market.

12 Mar 2008

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