08/15/2008 August 15, 2008 -- Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times in one square centimeter of space. Mirkin and his colleagues printed the logos, as well as an integrated gold circuit, using a new printing technique called Polymer Pen Lithography (PPL), that can write on three different length scales using only one device.
08/15/2008 Shrink the iPhone By Jim Stratigos, Jacket Micro Devices
Apple's recently introduced 3G iPhone is a marvel of engineering from just about any perspective; compact, feature rich, cool touch screen, and a plethora of wireless functions. It's also an indication of how far the electronics industry has yet to achieve in terms of miniaturization of complex analog circuits.
08/15/2008 August 15, 2008 -- Nanogen, Inc. and The Elitech Group, a private French diagnostics company, announced a definitive agreement to combine the two companies. The combination will create a global provider of products to the molecular, point-of-care, clinical chemistry and microbiology diagnostics markets with expected first year revenues of more than $150 million and positive EBITDA.
08/15/2008 August 15, 2008 -- Fiber imprinting nanotechnology developed at the MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at the University of Canterbury is going to get rugby fans closer than ever to the All Blacks rugby team. The names of as many as 100,000 fans are to be printed onto a single thread which will be sewn into the Silver Fern on a special edition jersey in a campaign organised by All Blacks sponsor adidas.
08/14/2008 August 13, 2008 -- ZEOX Corporation's subsidiary, ZEOX Performance Materials, LLC (ZPM), a developer of products utilizing nanostructured materials for coatings, nanoparticle reinforced composites, and nanostructured polymers, has developed a new class of surfactant technology based on a newly developed molecular structure, called Lipotrope. Surfactants are surface active agents required in the chemical processing of many industrial products.
08/14/2008 August 14, 2008 -- Lockheed Martin Corp. has acquired the government business unit of a company that develops nanotechnology-enabled devices such as memory, logic and sensors used in military and intelligence applications. It also entered a license arrangement with privately-held Woburn, Mass.-based Nantero Inc. for government applications of Nantero's intellectual property portfolio.
08/14/2008 University of South Australia scientists have discovered a way to remove bacteria and other contaminants from water using tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active nano-material. The water treatment process is a new concept that has the potential to make a significant contribution to the health of nations worldwide.
08/14/2008 August 14, 2008 -- Oxantium Ventures closed a B Series funding round with RF Nano Corporation, a developer of radio frequency devices from carbon nanotubes. Dr. Richard Wirt, a managing director at Oxantium, joins RF Nano's Board.
08/14/2008 August 13, 2008 -- Shocking Technologies, Inc. is preparing to ramp up commercial scale production by moving to a new 51,000 square foot facility in San Jose, California. The facility will house Shocking's nanotechnology research and development labs as well as manufacturing for its XStatic voltage switchable dielectric material.
08/14/2008 August 14, 2008 -- When you make a new material on a nanoscale how can you see what you have made? A team lead by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences research Council (BBSRC) fellow has made a significant step toward overcoming this major challenge faced by nanotechnology scientists.
08/14/2008 August 11, 2008 -- Asylum Research Corporation announced that the nearly five-year-old patent litigation between it and Veeco Instruments Inc. has been settled.
08/14/2008 August 11, 2008 -- Yole Developpement released a report stating that the MEMS switch and varicaps markets will reach $700 million in sales by 2012. Growth is driven by handset applications.
08/14/2008 August 12, 2008 -- Siimpel Corporation, a supplier of optical microsystems solutions, announced that it's SiimpelFocus SF9x MEMS-based silicon camera technology is now shipping in Motorola's recently announced MING A1600 cellular handset, which integrates the industry's first MEMS-based, continuous autofocus camera, enhanced GPS capabilities, and a suite of mobile business applications.
08/14/2008 August 12, 2008 -- Silicon Genesis Corporation (SiGen) has signed a collaboration and equipment supply agreement with Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) where REC will evaluate thin-PV substrate samples made using SiGen's PolyMax "kerf-free" wafering process. REC will also collaborate with SiGen to develop and optimize high-volume manufacturing (HVM) equipment and develop silicon ingot shaping requirements.
08/12/2008 In recognition of MEPTEC's 30th year, MEPTEC and Advanced Packaging magazine will present Packaging Developments and Innovations: From System Design to Integrated Delivery, Thursday, November 13, 2008, at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, CA. The symposium will include a special luncheon featuring keynote speaker, Glenn Daves, director of packaging technology, Freescale Semiconductor.
08/09/2008 August 8, 2008: The First International Competition of Scientific Papers in Nanotechnology for Young Researchers will be held within the framework of the Nanotechnology International Forum RusNanoTech'2008, lead by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies on December 3-5, 2008 in the International Exhibition Center of Moscow - "The Expocenter."
08/09/2008 August 8, 2008: Boston Micromachines Corp., a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, has launched a new high speed, high precision controller for its award winning Multi-DM. With >30kHz frame rate and 14bit resolution, the Multi-DM Controller provides a fifty fold improvement in speed and resolution over its predecessor.
08/09/2008 August 8, 2008: IntelliSense, a supplier of design and development solutions for the MEMS industry, has released a new version of its MEMS software, IntelliSuite v8.5, which includes upgrades to almost every module of IntelliSuite and introduces several new features.
