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Single-Photon Interference Leads to Faster X-ray Interferometers

By means of X-ray interferometers, lengths down to the mm range can be measured with a resolution of less than one nm. The low translation velocity of the interferometers, which made their use in practice more difficult, could now be increased by a factor of 100 by exploiting the temporal correlation of singly interfering X-ray photons.

19 Dec 2007

Materials Today Announces Top Ten Advances in Materials Science

What are the defining discoveries and great developments that are shaping the way we use materials and technologies today? Elsevier¡¦s Materials Today magazine has compiled a list of the top ten most significant advances in materials science over the last 50 years.

18 Dec 2007

PI Releases Large-Angle Steering Mirror Platforms Provide Precise Larger Angles, High Bandwidth & Stability

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. - a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for bio-nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications-has extended the S-330 high-dynamics piezo tip/tilt platform family by several new large-angle models.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 17 Dec 2007

New Imaging System That Quickly Maps the Mechanical Properties of Materials

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials - how stiff or stretchy they are, for example - at scales on the order of billionths of a meter. The new tool can be a cost-effective way to design and characterize mixed nanoscale materials such as composites or thin-film structures.

12 Dec 2007

Carl Zeiss Introduces New Transmission Electron Microscope

Carl Zeiss SMT today introduced the new CENTRA™ 100 transmission electron microscope (TEM) at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology in Washington D.C. The CENTRA 100 is a TEM with up to 100 kV accelerating voltage. Specially designed as a sophisticated “imaging system”, the highly compact and robust instrument offers maximum resolution down to 0.2 nm.

11 Dec 2007

New System Developed by MIT for Separating Out Particular Kinds of Cells

Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light.

10 Dec 2007

Super-Microscopes Gives Scientists Unique Opportunities to Design New Materials

Seven new super-microscopes and a specially designed building will give scientists at DTU unique opportunities to design new materials. Among the areas that will benefit are the environment, manufacturing, energy and transport.

10 Dec 2007

CRi Announces Breakthrough in Multispectral Imaging System

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) announces the launch of Nuance 2, the affordable, breakthrough system that converts any brightfield or fluorescent microscope into a multispectral imaging workstation. For multispectral imaging analysis of a larger specimens, such as embryos, zebrafish, plants, tissue culture and microtiter plates, the Nuance 2 can be mounted onto a fluorescent macroscope. The Nuance 2 system will be showcased at the upcoming San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium from December 13th through December 16th in San Antonio, Texas.

10 Dec 2007

Power Technology Introduces High Power Blue and Violet Laser Diodes

Power Technology, Inc. will now offer high power Blue and Violet laser diodes for use with our PM laser module, 405 nm at 60mW, increasing cost savings and allowing for additional selection variety.

9 Dec 2007

Revolutionary Technique Opens a New World of Fluorescence Microscopy

Carl Zeiss and physicists Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess have signed an exclusive license agreement for commercialization of Photo- activated Localization (PAL) microscopy. This new technique opens a new world of fluorescence microscopy, demonstrating for the first time in cells a resolution of approximately 20 nm. This is an order of magnitude higher than conventional fluorescence techniques such as confocal microscopy achieve.

8 Dec 2007