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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Many of the proposals for carbon nanotubes implementation in display applications have taken advantage of nanotubes capability to act as electron emitting materials for field emission displays. An alternative use of carbon nanotubes for displays is as a replacement for the transparent electrode materials such as ITO used in liquid ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Carbon nanotubes and related carbon-based nanostructures/thin films are of particular interest as electron emission materials for flat panel display devices and have been the focal point for some litigation. In this article the litigation between Nano-Proprietary and Canon concerning the licensing of surface emission display technology is reviewed. In a recent decision by the ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Last week researchers at Hewlett-Packard indicated that their nanoscale crossbar arrays may see commercialization as early as next year in ultra high density non-volatile memory. While the initial research into nanoscale crossbar technology was performed by Stan Williams and Phil Kuekes in the late 1990's, the recent discovery of the "memristor" characterized as ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
So far 2008 has set a 30 year record for a minimum number of venture backed IPO's (5 in the first quarter and none in the second quarter). Meanwhile a consortium of large technology companies including Verizon, Google, Cisco, HP, and Ericsson have banded together to create Allied Security Trust (AST) which joins the ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The US Display Consortium recently announced the addition of a business investment summit to their annual conference on flexible electronics and displays. So far much of the interest and activity in nanotechnology has been weighted toward the study of basic nanomaterial properties rather than new applications and even when applications are proposed ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
The annual NSTI Nanotech Conference and Trade Show was held this week in Boston, Ma. Some of the highlights include:
A keynote speech by Congressman Jay Inslee, author of Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy. Congressman Inslee made the comparison between the challenge of the moon landing confronting U.S. science ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
A recent Lux Research report notes that venture capital spending is out of sync with return on investment with the majority of the revenue coming from nanomedical start-ups but more funding going to non-medical start-ups. Due to many nanotechnology start-ups focus on materials platforms rather than specific applications the typical time frame for return on investment required by VCs ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
As discussed in this NanoL&B article Nano-Proprietary is one of the leading U.S. patent holders for materials and applications using nanomaterials for field emission devices, which may form the basis of future high-efficiency and large area displays. Unfortunately the company has been in various litigations which have put a damper on the company's success. ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
While much of the original research and development of carbon nanotube technology originated from the U.S. at IBM and Rice University and in Japan at NEC, China has recently become an important player in developing CNT manufacturing techniques and device applications. This article in the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
In Vol. 3, issue 4 of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal I reviewed four alternative approaches to future nanoelectronics devices taken by D-Wave (quantum computing), Hewlett-Packard (molecular electronics), Nantero (carbon nanotube switches), and Nanosys (nanowire macroelectronics). Of the four companies Nanosys seems to be in the best position at ...
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