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Researchers Employ a Nanotechnology Atomic Force Microscope to Measure Cell Softness

A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists was able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the cells' softness.

5 Dec 2007

Agilent Enters Failure Analysis Probing Market

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Multiprobe Inc. today announced their intent to expand the companies' strategic partnership. As a result, Multiprobe's Multiscan Atomic Force Prober (AFP), the world's highest-resolution nanoprober, will be sold and supported by Agilent to customers in Asia and Japan.

4 Dec 2007

Veeco Introduces Latest 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Platform, the only metrology system available with the accuracy and precision required for non-destructive, high resolution three-dimensional (3D) measurements of critical 45nm and 32nm semiconductor features, with the speed to qualify as a true fab tool. Veeco's InSight 3DAFM was designed specifically to address Critical Dimension (CD), depth and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) metrology in a production environment.

From Veeco 4 Dec 2007

Applied Materials Named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for Pioneering Work on Solar Modules

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it was named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for its pioneering work on the Applied SunFab Thin Film Line, at a gala presenting the prestigious 9th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards.

4 Dec 2007

German Research Foundation Establishes Ten New Collaborative Research Centres

On 1 January 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centres, which will receive a total of 74.4 million euros in funding over the next four years, as well as a lump sum of 20 percent to cover indirect costs incurred by the projects.

4 Dec 2007

CAST Lighting Transformers with No-Surge Technology Eliminates Current Problem

CAST Lighting announced today the incorporation of soft-start technology into their professional line of 'Master Series'® landscape lighting transformers. The new exclusive patent-pending feature, No-Surge"!, marks the first time this technology has been incorporated into multi-tap power supplies.

4 Dec 2007

Purifying Wastewater from Hospitals Using UV Light

Hospital wastewater is contaminated with drugs that can pollute the environment. A newly developed system deals with the problem at source, directly treating and purifying wastewater from the toilets before it ever reaches the sewage plant.

4 Dec 2007

Laser Energetics to Form Joint Venture to Market Laser for Dental Applications

Laser Energetics, Inc. announced today that the Company has signed a Memo Of Understanding ("MOU") with Lantis Laser, Inc. of Denville, NJ to form a Joint Venture, on a 50:50 basis, to market and distribute its BrightStar(TM) Alexandrite laser for dental applications.

4 Dec 2007

Northrop Grumman LITENING AT Demonstrates Reliability with Over 765,000 Operational Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation today announced that the LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) has achieved more than two years of operational availability consistently above 95 percent among all U.S. customers. LITENING AT systems are currently deployed with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Marine Corps, Air Combat Command and coalition forces.

4 Dec 2007

Xilinx Delivers Complete Solutions Based on Virtex-5 FPGA

Xilinx Inc., the world's leading provider of programmable logic solutions, today announced complete solutions for the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) System Packet Interface (SPI) 4.2 and SerDes Framer Interface (SFI) 4.1 standards, the industry's highest performance channelized packet interfaces.

4 Dec 2007

DOE Funds Xidex to Make Carbon Nanotube Sources for SEMs and TEMs

Xidex Corporation, an Austin-based nanotechnology company, has been awarded a new contract from the Department of Energy (DOE) for scaleable manufacturing of carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission sources for use in scanning electron beam instruments such as scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and transmission electron microscopes (TEMs).

4 Dec 2007

Custom-Made Security Products Using Laser Technology

CGM-AST has always brought the future of security products to its clientele. Now this subsidiary of Allied Security Innovations, Inc., brings future technology to its own production facilities with the use of laser equipment.

4 Dec 2007

AMS Technologies Introduces High Performance Fiber Coupled Laser Diode

AMS Technologies introduces Princeton Lightwave¡¯s high performance fiber coupled laser diode with an exceptional high power of 400mW @ 1550nm.

4 Dec 2007

Faster and Easier Access to Imagery and Maps for Warfighters and Analysts

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Lockheed Martin are working to streamline and speed the delivery of critical maps, imagery and other geospatial data to users worldwide. The Demand-Based Geospatial Intelligence (DBGI) program is an automated supply chain management system that allows users to request and access geospatial data in the format and delivery method of their choosing.

4 Dec 2007

Powerful Microscope Technique Reveals Molecular Organisation of Skin

Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have visualised proteins responsible for cell-cell contacts for the first time. In this week’s issue of Nature they publish the first 3D image of human skin at molecular resolution and reveal the molecular Velcro-like organisation that interlinks cells.

4 Dec 2007