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NIST Develop World's Most Accurate Gamma Ray Detector

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and demonstrated the world's most accurate gamma ray detector, which is expected to be useful eventually...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 15 Mar 2006

Toshiba Licenses Key DNA Chip Patents to Antara

Toshiba Corporation has announced that it has licensed key patents on DNA chips and DNA detection and analysis to Antara BioSciences Inc. of the United States. The license covers the application of Toshiba-developed and ...

13 Mar 2006

OM Group to Accelerate Growth Strategy in Electronic Chemicals WIth Acquisition of Plaschem

OM Group has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Plaschem Specialty Products Pte Ltd. and its subsidiaries. Terms of the transaction were not announced, but the company believes that the addition o...

13 Mar 2006

Materials Science Gets a Nitride Boost

Like modern day alchemists, materials scientists often turn unassuming substances into desirable ones. But instead of working metal into gold, they create strange new compounds that could make the electronic components o...

13 Mar 2006

GA Tech Develops Ultra-Efficient Embedded Architectures Based on Probabilistic Technology

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology announce energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their ultra energy efficient embedded architecture based on Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS). The rese...

13 Mar 2006

INTRINSIC Semiconductor Announces Commercial Shipments of 100mm Silicon Carbide Wafers

INTRINSIC Semiconductor has commenced commercial shipments of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers completely free of micropipes, as well as 100mm (4 inch) diameter SiC wafers. Both actions will benefit current customer applicat...

8 Mar 2006

Scientists Redefine Spin Current Concept

A group of physicists headed by CAS scientists questioned the validity of the conventional definition of spin current, and proposed a new one. Their work was published by the US journal Physical Review Letters. The re...

8 Mar 2006

University of Kent Launches New Spin-Out Developing Real-Time Embedded Systems-on-Chip (SoC)

The University of Kent has launched UltraSoC Technologies Ltd, a new spin-out company that is developing a technology platform for real-time embedded systems-on-chip (SoC). This ground-breaking technology has produced im...

8 Mar 2006

Epistar Purchase 5 GaN Reactors from Aixtron

An encouraging start into the year 2006 is Epistar’s purchase of five gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxy reactors: The brand new AIX 2800G4 Planetary Reactor with 42x2" capacity and four units of the AIX 2600G3 Pla...

3 Mar 2006

Brush Ceramic Receives ISO Certification for Arizona Facility

Brush Ceramic Products Inc., a leading manufacturer of customized beryllium oxide ceramics serving the telecom, medical and semiconductor markets, announced today that it has received ISO 9001:2000 certification for its ...

24 Feb 2006

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