An international team of researchers has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
Mar 15th, 2009
Read moreSubmit a proposal either for a short oral presentation or for a poster contribution and present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
Mar 14th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreResearchers were able to use an array of microelectrodes to follow the two-dimensional motion of a tiny, individual basalt sphere in space and time.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreA new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreImagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThe process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.
Mar 13th, 2009
Read moreThree new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.
Mar 13th, 2009
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Scientists in Japan and Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations - a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle - affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.
Mar 12th, 2009
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Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust 'quantum gates', which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreAn international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.
Mar 12th, 2009
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Researchers used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of the nano-particles that are at the heart of the process.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreThe Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the recipients of its 2009 University Researcher Awards, Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan of MIT and Dr. Kang Wang of UCLA. The awards were presented at the annual SIA Washington conference on March 12.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreUm den Transfer der wissenschaftlichen Nanotechnologieforschung in die industrielle Anwendung zu erleichtern, haben die IHKs der Metropolregion Stuttgart gemeinsam mit dem Fraunhofer IAO das Anwendungscluster Nanotechnologie initiiert.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreAn international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials.
Mar 12th, 2009
Read moreFrom June 17-18, 2009 in Saarbruecken, Germany, prominent experts will be discussing ethical nanotechnology issues at the SIZE MATTERS 2009 conference from the perspective of the natural sciences, medicine, philosophy, theology and law.
Mar 12th, 2009
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