EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, July 21, 2011 — The official opening of the Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Centre (HEMiC) is providing access to a uniquely configured transmission electron microscope, the first of its kind outside of Japan. Installed at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) at the University of Alberta, the instrument is one of three new microscopes at the center. “Innovation is the key to growing our economy, and this project will allow businesses to capitalize on the benefits of...

TORONTO, Canada, July 18, 2011 — Inspired by photosynthesis, researchers have engineered a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light. "Nanotechnologists have for many years been captivated by quantum dots — particles of...

MANCHESTER, England, July 5, 2011 — A solar-nano device is being created with the hope that it can harness the energy of the sun and convert it into a clean fuel alternative. Using quantum dots grafted with catalyst molecules, scientists are harvesting the sun’s energy to...

PRINCETON, N.J, July 1, 2011 — Using laser light, scientists have peered into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment known as a Kondo state. The results not only yield insights into a long-standing quandary in theoretical physics but may also...

WAKO, Japan, June 16, 2011 — The research institute RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute announced the successful production of a beam of x-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 ?, the shortest ever measured. The record-breaking light was created...

WATERTOWN, Mass., June 2, 2011 — QD Vision Inc., a developer of nanotechnology-based products for displays and solid-state lighting, has announced major advances in the efficiency and performance of its quantum dot LED (QLED) technology. The company presented its achievements at...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Tiny polymeric containers stuffed with red and green quantum dots promise to provide continuous light for biomedical imaging. Engineers at Ohio State University have invented nanoparticles that, somewhat unusually, glow red, green or yellow...

CAMBRIDGE, England, May 5, 2011 — In a bold statement that raised questions about a billion-dollar industry, Mike Kelly, professor and nanotechnology scientist at the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics at the University of Cambridge, said that structures with a diameter...

May 1, 2011 — Several technologies have great potential to strengthen Europe’s capacity for innovation and industrial development in the face of global competition. In October 2009, the European Commission identified key enabling technologies (KETs); in...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 1, 2011 — Tiny polymeric containers stuffed with red and green quantum dots promise to provide continuous light in biomedical imaging. Engineers at Ohio State University, led by Jessica Winter and Gang Ruan have invented a kind of nanoparticle that shines in...

BRISTOL, England, March 29, 2011 — Fluorescent diamond “defect centers” are being used to create efficient single-photon sources that are expected to enable secure optical communications, also known as quantum cryptography. Defect centers in diamond materials, which...

TULSA, Okla., March 7, 2011 — Three-dimensional and display technologies developer 3DIcon Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Brian G. Hoover as vice president of technology development. In his new position, Hoover will work with Dr. Hakki Refai, the company’s...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 7, 2011 — Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite, a material developed in Switzerland. EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) published a study showing that this material has distinct...

Feb 4, 2011 — Negative-stiffness vibration isolators can easily support the heavy weight of a combined AFM/micro-Raman system, and isolate it from low frequency vibrations more effectively than high-performance air tables or active isolation systems. The need for...

KLEVE, Germany, Feb. 3, 2011 — Spectro Analytical Instruments GmbH, a unit of Ametek Materials Analysis Div., announced it formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology Inc. to market its inductively coupled plasma optical emission (ICP-OES) and mass spectrometers...

Feb 1, 2011 — Nanotechnology investment company Nanostart AG of Frankfurt, Germany, has announced its investment in Microlight Sensors Pte Ltd. of Singapore, an integrated optical sensors and scanning systems developer. The latter company’s current product...

BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 20, 2011 — With more than 1150 exhibiting companies, the SPIE Photonics West exhibition will feature the latest innovations in lasers, sensors and optical materials and systems for research, medicine, imaging and manufacturing. The largest-ever Photonics West...

HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2010 — Nanotechnologists, marine biologists and signal-processing experts from Rice University, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and other US universities have won a $6 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to unlock the...

FRANKFURT, Germany, and SINGAPORE, Dec. 21, 2010 — Nanotechnology investment company Nanostart AG announced its recent investment in Microlight Sensors Pte Ltd., an integrated optical sensors and scanning systems developer in Singapore. The company’s current product line makes it possible to...

WARSAW. Poland, Dec. 14, 2010 — Tests of a new high-resolution electron microscope – dubbed the Titan Cubed 80-300 — were recently finished at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS). One of the best facilities of its kind in Europe, the...

BERLIN, Dec. 15, 2010 — To support its growing user base, nanoanalytic instrumentation manufacturer JPK Instruments AG announced the opening of its first sales offices in France. The company decided to open an office in France to offer its customers better...

WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec. 2, 2010 — QD Vision Inc. and LG Display Co. Ltd. (LGD) of Seoul, South Korea, have announced a joint agreement to develop highly efficient, high-performance active-matrix displays based on electroluminescent quantum dot LED (QLED) nanotechnology. The displays...

Dec 1, 2010 — Vistec Lithography Inc. of Watervliet, N.Y., has announced that AMO GmbH of Aachen, Germany, a nanotechnology research service provider, has placed an order for its EBPG5200 electron beam lithography system. The instrument can generate structures...

Dec 1, 2010 — The phrase “lab on a tip,” referring to nanoscale property measurements made by the probe of an atomic force microscope (AFM), has been a dream for the developers of analytical instrumentation. There also has been a drive for...

NEEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 16, 2010 — Investment banking firm Newbury Piret & Co. Inc. and management consulting firm Ceres Technology Advisors announced they are launching an initiative to serve the photonics industry. The firms said their initiative will help the life sciences,...