10 February 2010 (from ICT-Platon.eu)

“PLATON” - New promising FP7 European Research Project on Plasmonics and Silicon Photonics launched in January 2010

The new research project PLATON is targeting the realization of a fully integrated Terabit per second optical routing system for data networks through merging Plasmonics and Silicon Photonics. All consortium partners [..]

05 February 2010 (from Phantoms Foundation)

The Phantoms Foundation coordinates the Spain Pavilion at nano tech 2010 (Tokyo, Japan), the world's largest nanotechnology exhibition

The world's largest annual nanotechnology exhibition covering the entire nano marketplace and creating a variety of business opportunities, nano tech 2010, will be held from February 17 to 19, 2010 at Tokyo Big Sight, [..]

07 January 2010 (from University of New South Wales)

Quantum age edges closer

Superfast quantum computing is closer than ever following recent breakthroughs by an international team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales. [..]

12 October 2009 (from Institute of Nanotechnology)

Converging Technologies for 21st Century Security

Keynote Speaker: Professor Mark Welland FRS FREng, Chief Scientific Advisor, Ministry of Defence [..]

16 September 2009 (from Springer)

Nanophotonic devices could revolutionize the telecommunications industry

Japanese researcher Motoichi Ohtsu receives the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2009 for his pioneering work in the field of nanophotonics. [..]

4 upcoming events

Classified to press

01 October 2006 - 01 January 2016 in University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Master in Nanoengineering

10 March 2010 - 12 March 2010 in Lausanne, Switzerland

2nd NanoImpactNet integrating conference

16 March 2010 - 16 March 2010 in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Point-One Network Event 2010 - High tech solutions for a sustainable future

06 July 2010 - 07 July 2010 in Dresden, Germany

Nanofair 2010

06 July 2007

Molecular Electronics Start-ups

Molecular electronics (or moletronics) is an interdisciplinary domain that spans physics, chemistry, materials science and sometimes biology. The unifying feature of this area is the use [..]

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05 July 2007

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

Computers have changed the way we process information, communicate and do business. There is a continual drive towards faster and smaller processors allowing the solution of many [..]

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29 June 2007

Nanotechnology and Civil Security

Security is becoming an increasingly important facet of global society. The issues are many-fold and include protecting citizens and state from organized crime, preventing terrorist acts, [..]

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04 August 2006

Nanotechnology research leads to molecular-scale batteries and motors

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17 October 2005

Nanotechnologies in textile: new opportunities for French industry

04 October 2005

From the Lab: Nanotechnology