Brian Dorsett

$250M initiative includes $28m assembly investment to rehabilitate iconic electronics lab and enable new university-industry-government partnership.

Reinforcing its commitment to researchers and clinicians, GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company is showcasing a comprehensive molecular imaging portfolio - encompassing tracer development, pre-clinical imaging and highly advanced imaging equipment - to provide insight into the origins of disease, at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), Booth #212, September 8 through 11 in Kyoto, Japan.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. today announced that it has developed a photomask manufacturing process at its facility in Asaka, Japan, to support 22nm and 20nm semiconductor device production.

Kopin Corporation, the world's leading producer of heterojunction bipolar transistor wafers for smart phones and other mobile devices, announced today that it has received a two-year, Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract for the development of Aluminum Indium Nitride-based high electron mobility transistors.

In a further expansion of its sales and service capabilities in the northeast, Olympus America Inc. has announced that it will begin selling and servicing scientific equipment directly in the region surrounding its headquarters in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley beginning October 1.

A one day workshop organized by the Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnologies (CNRS-CEA, France), titled Multicellular assemblies : Architectures, Properties, Engineering, will take place on october 20, 2010 in Paris.

Oberflaechen lassen sich gezielt so strukturieren, dass sie die Erforschung von Molekuelstrukturen erheblich voranbringen.

A simple device measures the quantum noise of vacuum fluctuations and generates true random numbers.

Auf dem ITAFORUM 2010 diskutieren Naturwissenschaftler, Geisteswissenschaftler und Politiker ueber neue Technologien und ihre Folgen.

Asylum Research and Harvard University's Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) will conduct a free workshop with a focus on nanomechanics on September 30 to October 1, 2010.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been notified that it has been selected for a SBIR Phase II award to develop carbon foils for the next generation ion beam accelerators. The amount of the award is approximately $750,000.

The Sixth Biennial International Congress on the relationship between neurobiology and nano-electronics titled "The Eye and The Chip" will bring together the world's leading researchers involved in advancing artificial human vision at Henry Ford Community College Sept. 13-15, 2010.

Arbor Photonics, Inc. has received SBIR Phase IB funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its work on 'High Power Pulsed Fiber Lasers for EUV Lithography'.

King Harald of Norway presented the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience to the eight laureates from US, Germany and Great Britain at spectacular gala performance at Oslo Concert Hall in Oslo, Norway, on 7 September.

Grenoble Ecole de Management is launching a new Winter School on Nanotechnology in collaboration with IEP - Grenoble, ESIEE-Univ Paris Est-LAST, FRIDA and supported by ANR-France.

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics Corp., a leading developer and manufacturer of photon detectors and camera systems, to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.

In what could be a step toward higher efficiency solar cells, an international team including University of Michigan professors has invalidated the most commonly used model to explain the behavior of a unique class of materials called highly mismatched alloys.

Electron pumps are devices that can transfer a certain number of electrons during each pumping cycle. Besides being of fundamental interest to physicists, single-electron pumps have a potential for practical application in metrology, acting as an accurate frequency-current converter. The general goal of this field is to build a current standard based on the electrical charge of a single electron in order to achieve high accuracy for current measurement. A device called single-electron transistor (SET) can confine charges down to single electron level and hence is applicable for quantized current generation. Attempts to generate quantized current in nanotubes have been made with various methods over the past few years, but were not very successful in obtaining a high degree of current quantization. A research team in Germany has now demonstrated the feasibility of using a single molecule - in this case, a single-walled carbon nanotube - for the generation of quantized electric current.

Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, a leader in the emerging field of targeted genetic medicine, reports the publication of a landmark paper in clinical oncology.

Potenziale und Herausforderungen von Innovationen aus der Material- und Nanotechnologieforschung zeigt der im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) vom VDI Technologiezentrum organisierte Branchendialog auf der Messe IFAT Entsorga in Muenchen am 14. September 2010.