Quality control of production lines to benefit from a digital wavefront sensor that provides rapid non-contact measurement of object surfaces.

An innovative imprinting technique produces highly ordered alumina films with nanometer-sized pores on silicon wafers.

After achieving the 45-nm process, today's semiconductor industry is nearing the 20-nm process and looking for techniques that would enable sub-22-nm-half-pitch line patterns. Following the continuous increase in exposure tool numerical aperture, researchers are pursuing reductions in exposure wavelengths. This effort had them look at extreme ultraviolet (EUV: 13.4 nm in wavelength) as an exposure light source. Unlike the numerical aperture engineering, change of a light source to EUV demands development of its related components, such as photoresist and optics. Until a reliable solution for EUV lithography is developed, EUV interference lithography (EUVIL) would not solely advance the lithographic technology but would also help to optimize photoresist materials for EUV.

The dressing will work by releasing antibiotics from nanocapsules triggered by the presence of disease-causing pathogenic bacteria, which will target treatment before the infection takes hold.

Filter helps enable memory and microprocessor chip production at the 22 nanometer technology node.

Electrovaya Inc., developer and manufacturer of proprietary Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery systems, today announced its participation in three upcoming conferences.

Auf dem Forschungscampus Garching wird in den kommenden Jahren das Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) errichtet. Hauptanliegen der universitaeren Forschung ist die Entwicklung von Verfahren zur grundlegenden Verbesserung der Heilungschancen von Krebspatienten.

Researchers in Japan have developed the concept of a clean hydrogen production system based on controlled lithium-water electrochemical reactions and have successfully investigated the system.

Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation, an emerging leader in the field of targeted genetic medicine, received a notice of allowance from the USPTO for another crucial patent covering its leading tumor-targeted gene delivery platform.

CVD Equipment Corporation announced that it received over $6.0 million in new orders during the three (3) months ended June 30, 2010 and approximately $9.3 million in new orders for the six (6) months ended June 30, 2010.

Lasertec Corporation of Japan has joined SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, and will partner with SEMATECH to develop robust, cost-effective process metrology technology solutions for readying high-volume via-mid through-silicon via (TSV) manufacturing.

SoluBest, a company developing an easy-to-integrate technological platform for solving the problem of drug insolubility, has appointed Dr. Amir Zalcenstein as new CEO.

Scientists from the EU-funded TERAMAGSTOR ('Terabit magnetic storage technologies') project are aiming to push the boundaries of disk storgae further with a hard disk that has the storage density capacity of one terabit per square inch.

Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple shared explanation for equivalent behaviors of the two very different systems.

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions (electrically charged atoms), allowing quantum information stored in the ions to be measured. The advance could simplify quantum computer design and serve as a step toward swapping information between matter and light in future quantum networks.

Rice University researchers have come up with a computer program to accurately simulate protein folding dramatically faster than previous methods. It will allow scientists to peer deeper into the roots of diseases caused by proteins that fold incorrectly.

Imagine being able to drop a toothpick on the head of one particular person standing among 100,000 people in a stadium. It sounds impossible, yet this degree of precision at the cellular level has been demonstrated by researchers affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report "Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials Are Widely Used in Commerce, but EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk" (pdf) in which it recommends that EPA complete its plans to modify its regulatory framework for nanomaterials as needed.

The Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation, MANCEF, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems Conference (COMS) in New Mexico.

Chu has a dense research paper being published online Wednesday in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The title: 'Subnanometre single-molecule localization registration and distance measurements'.