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Epilight Places Multi-Tool Order for Veeco’s TurboDisc K465i Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Shanghai Epilight Technology Co., Ltd placed a large multi-tool order for Veeco TurboDisc® K465i™ Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems during the fourth quarter of 2010.

9 Feb 2011

Merck-Millipore Chooses ADT's Nanocrystalline Diamond Bearings for NovAseptic Mixers

Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT) announces that Merck-Millipore has selected UNCD® Bearings™ to improve the reliability and dry-running capability of its NovAseptic® line of mixers.

9 Feb 2011

iSmithers Publishing's New Book on Nanofibre Research Advancement

Research and Markets has announced the addition of iSmithers Publishing 's new book "Advances in Nanofibre Research" to their offering. Nanofibres are defined as fibres with diameters on the order of 10...

9 Feb 2011

Veeco Becomes Primary Supplier of MOCVD Systems for EnRayTek's New LED Factory

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that it has been selected as the primary supplier of Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems by Enraytek Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. (EnRayTek), a new company established to make LEDs for backlighting LED-TVs.

9 Feb 2011

Magnolia Solar Completes Phase I Patent Filings for Photovoltaic Solar Cell Technologies

Magnolia Solar Corporation ("Magnolia Solar") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., has completed the first phase of its intellectual property protection initiative.

9 Feb 2011

Veeco Releases Highest Productivity Multi-Reactor System for HB LED Manufacturing

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today the introduction of the TurboDisc® MaxBright™ Gallium Nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Multi-Reactor System for production of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs).

8 Feb 2011

Carl Zeiss Wins IARPA Contract to Develop Advanced Nano Manufacturing and Imaging Applications

Carl Zeiss today announced that it has been awarded a $22.6 million contract to develop certain nano manufacturing and imaging applications based on its revolutionary ORION™ Gas Field Ion Source (GFIS) technology.

8 Feb 2011

Rudolph Bags Orders for MetaPULSE-G Opaque Thin Film Metrology Tool

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of process characterization equipment and software for wafer fabs and advanced packaging facilities, announced today that it has received multiple system orders from a major Asian foundry and an IDM (integrated device manufacturer) with fabrication facilities in the U.S. for its latest MetaPULSE®-G opaque metrology tool.

From Onto Innovation 8 Feb 2011

Control of Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing to Exploit Properties Almost in Hand

Carbon nanotubes have many attractive properties, and their structure and areas of application can be compared with those of graphene, the material for whose discovery the most recent Nobel Prize was awarded. In order to be able to exploit these properties, however, it is necessary to have full control of the manufacturing process. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg are closing in on the answer.

7 Feb 2011

Novel Method for Growing Nanolasers on Silicon to Create Optoelectronic Chips

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips.

7 Feb 2011

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