1/26/12
Physicists from Hannover and Geneva investigate single electron transport through semiconductor nanostructure The basic building block in conventional electronics is the transistor; a computer, for example, contains more than a billion transistors and worldwide nearly 10 billion transistors are ...
1/25/12
At Compamed 2011, ROFIN showcased the latest developments in laser material processing. The focus was on manual laser welding and high-precision cutting with ultra short pulse femto / fiber laser sources for medical device manufacturing. Within a few months, ROFIN's newly designed manual welding ...
1/16/12
Gold nanoparticles detect tiny acoustic vibrations How noisy is a walking flea? What sorts of sound waves are caused by motile bacteria? Physicists at the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) have managed for the first time to detect sound waves at such minuscule length scales. Their nanoear is ...
1/5/12
The "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011" was won by a team comprising existing and former Fraunhofer researchers. Professor Karl Leo, Dr. Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth and Dr. Martin Pfeiffer were honored for their pioneering achievements in the field of organic electronics. When the concept was first ...
12/19/11
In 2012 microtechnology will be part of the special area "Industrial Automation" at the HANNOVER MESSE. The main reasons for IVAM and Deutsche Messe to decide this relocation were the close proximity of the application markets and the demands of the exhibitors. "Together with Deutsche Messe we ...
12/16/11
IMPRS – a 10-year success story December 12, 2011 For ten years International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) have been successfully tempting young talented students from all over the world to come to Germany. The IMPRS cooperate with their German partner universities to provide a structured ...
11/25/11
DFG Establishes 16 New Research Training Groups / Strong Competition between Groups from All Scientific Disciplines / Four International Research Training Groups Represent Increasing Cross-Border Cooperation To further enhance the promotion of early-career researchers in Germany, the Deutsche ...
11/18/11
The German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) is proud to announce the launch of its new webpage, Technology Parks & Centers, on http://germaninnovation.org/research-and-innovation/technology-parks-and-centers The GCRI’s web presence is an information platform for North Americans who are ...
11/15/11
Nanomagnets are used in many places nowadays, from medicine to data storage. Sometimes they have to be strong and and sometimes they have to be weak. Researchers from the Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE) at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have found out just how to produce these tiny ...
11/14/11
Individual atoms as contrast media for scanning tunnelling microscopes Jülich, 5 October 2011 - Scanning tunnelling microscopes are among the most important and most widely used tools for visualizing structures at the atomic level. In the past, however, it was virtually impossible to use them to ...
10/5/11
Modern endoscopic techniques enable doctors to perform surgery without major incisions. Certain interventions require instruments with special 3-D optics. Researchers have developed an image sensor that transmits perfect 3-D images from inside the human body thanks to the use of microlenses. The ...
