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NASA Offers Students the Opprtunity to Experiment in Zero Gravity

NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test experiments in microgravity aboard NASA's "Weightless Wonder" aircraft.

15 Jul 2009

Goodyear and DuPont Team Up to Produce High Tech Kevlar Reinforced Tires

Scientists from DuPont have helped The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company by taking DuPont technology for high-strength Kevlar products and applying it to Goodyear tires. Goodyear-produced tires with Kevlar fiber are tar...

15 Jul 2009

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to be Powered by Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling...

15 Jul 2009

Soldiers Benefit from Solar Powered Portable Electronics

Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), in a concerted effort with Plextronics, Inc., and the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, both located in Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.

15 Jul 2009

World Leading Nanofabrication Centre to Open in September

Wednesday 9 September will be a day of celebration in the School, when the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre is officially opened by Professor Ian Diamond, Chair of Research Councils UK (RCUK).

15 Jul 2009

Atomic Level Research and Heavy Ion Collisions Results in Presidential Award

Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - Jason Graetz and Paul Sorensen - were among 100 researchers who were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals.

15 Jul 2009

Web Site to Help Those Characterizing Solar and Photovoltaic Devices

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, has created an application-specific microsite for those responsible for characterizing solar/photovoltaic devices...

15 Jul 2009

IMEC Shows Off Innovations in Dielectrics and Metallization for 22nm Interconnects

IMEC presents innovations in dielectrics and metallization technologies as well as in their integration approaches. Great progress has been obtained in the metallization of 22nm interconnects, in Cu/low-k reliability assessment and in the suppression of low-k integration damage.

From IMEC 15 Jul 2009

GLS Now Offering Services and Pre-Owned Lithogrphy Equipment to Semiconductor Manufactursr

Global Litho Services (GLS) is pleased to announce its establishment today, providing services and pre-owned lithography equipment to the mature semiconductor, MEMS, and niche application markets. Registered in the Ne...

15 Jul 2009

Deep Photonics Opens New Materials Processing Applications Lab

Deep Photonics, the ultra fast fiber laser company for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, announced the opening of a new materials processing applications lab at its corporate headquarters in Co...

15 Jul 2009

New Metrology Product for Semiconductor and Photovoltaics Manufacturers

Semilab SSM, a division of Semilab, one of the world's largest metrology companies, announced at Semicon West today a new member of its NanoSRP family of metrology products. Designed for small and mid-tier sized semi...

15 Jul 2009

New Fiber Laser Platforms for the Photovoltaic Industry

Deep Photonics Corp., the ultra fast fiber laser company for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, announced the introduction of two new fiber laser platforms - the FLP-532-PPP and the FLP-355-PPP ...

15 Jul 2009

IMEC Achieves Promising Results in Scaling CMOS to 22nm and Lower

IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.

From IMEC 14 Jul 2009

ADT Now Offers Electrically Conducting Diamond Products

Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT) welcomes UNCD Lightning, electrically conductive diamond, to its family of award-winning diamond products. Although natural diamond is highly insulating, UNCD Lightning captures ...

14 Jul 2009

Cambridge NanoTech Launch First Plasma ALD Systems

Cambridge NanoTech, the world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) science and equipment for research and industry, today announced the launch of its first line of plasma ALD systems, the Fiji Series.

14 Jul 2009