Brian Dorsett

This three-year ENIAC (European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council) project aims to achieve substantial advances in state-of-the-art medical 3D-imaging platforms by focusing on the diagnosis and therapy of serious diseases of the central nervous system and brain.

WITec GmbH announces the acquisition of the majority of the optical measurement solution provider omt optische messtechnik gmbh.

Through advancements in nanotechnology, Professor Babak Parviz, from the University of Washington, will explain at a NASA talk how contact lenses have been converted into systems that can complete extraordinary tasks.

MTECH Laboratories receives $150K NSF award to demonstrate the feasibility of its novel, high-efficiency energy distribution system for large buildings.

Einem Team von Forschern der Uni Hamburg und des spanischen Forschungszentrums IMDEA Nanoscience ist es gelungen, Materialien auf chemischem Wege herzustellen, die sich durch Selbstorganisation zu zweidimensionalen Nanostrukturen zusammenfinden.

In an innovation critical to improved DNA sequencing, a markedly slower transmission of DNA through nanopores has been achieved by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories researchers.

The current tendency in bone tissue engineering is developing materials that temporarily substitute for the bone while inducing its regeneration in such a way that this, temporary material, disappears as the bone recovers its space.

Ultra-strong interaction between light and matter realized.

A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall.

ESI's advanced tailored pulse laser architecture enhances productivity to meet growing needs of DRAM manufacturers ramping 40 nanometer processes.

EcoloCap Solutions Inc., an integrated network of environmentally-focused technology companies utilizing nanotechnology to develop efficient alternative energy solutions, today announced that Michael Siegel President and CEO of Ecolocap Solutions, Inc. on a week-long visit to India has reached an agreement in principle with Ajay Singh, managing director of Spice Jet.

Leica Microsystems' Slide Scanner Leica SCN400 and Autoloader Leica SL801 have come first in two categories of the first European Scanner Contest (ESC).

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. today announced it will showcase its range of instruments for materials analysis at booth #436 at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2010, August 1-5, in Portland, Ore.

SII NanoTechnology USA Inc. will be debuting a redesigned company website to assist current and potential customers in choosing the best X-ray detector and spectrometric systems for their companies.

Quantum dots have been receiving extensive attention from researchers because they can be widely used for basic physics study, quantum computing, biological imaging, nanoelectronics, and photonics applications. Current major fabrication methods for semiconductor quantum dots all have certain drawbacks. Comparing all these methods, the electrical depletion method has many advantages, such as electrical tunability by gate contacts, smooth confinement boundaries, good control and uniformity if the top gate patterns are uniform enough. Researchers have now, for the first time, applied the electrical depletion method to quantum wells and generate a large area of uniform quantum dots using a uniform metallic nanoholes array on top of quantum wells. This design for forming quantum dots has inherited all the advantages of the electrical depletion method. Furthermore, it can produce millions of uniform quantum dots easily, precisely, and controllably, which will help realize the wide applications of quantum dots in many areas.

Empa researchers have succeeded in growing sea-urchin shaped nanostructures from minute balls of polystyrene beads using a simple electrochemical process. The spines of the sea urchin consist of zinc oxide nanowires. The structured surface should help increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic devices.

This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.

Protochips, a company specializing in revolutionary products for in situ electron microscopy, today announced the Poseidon solution for in situ characterization of materials in liquid directly within the transmission electron microscope.

Autodesk, Inc. has named Brookhaven National Laboratory - a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy - as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for July in recognition of its innovative nanotechnology equipment.

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM, the DRAM industry's smallest LPDDR2 chip.