First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that it will exhibit at the 7th Annual Nano Technology for Defense Conference, 6 - 9 April 2009 in Burlingame, CA and the Materials Research Society - MRS Spring, 13 - 17 April, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, Moscone West | San Francisco Marriott.

The Nano Technology for Defense Conference is sponsored by the tri-service research organizations [Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR)], as well as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Yi Tu, Senior Research Scientist, First Nano will be presenting "Progress in Carbon Nanotube and Semiconducting Nanowire Synthesis". Y. Tu¹, C. Jensen¹, T. Salagaj¹, K. Strobl¹, M. Schulz², V. Shanov², K. Shum³,1. First Nano, a Division of CVD Equipment Corporation, 2. University of Cincinnati, 3.Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

During the MRS Spring Show First Nano will be sponsoring the MRS Symposium AA: Semiconductor Nanowires Session. During this session Brooklyn University will be presenting three papers. ZnO nanostructures epitaxially grown on ZnO seeded Si (100) substrates by chemical vapor deposition Zhuo Chen¹, T. Salagaj², C. Jensen², K. Strobl², Mim Nakarmi¹, and Kai Shum¹, a , two-photon absorption induced photoluminescence in a ZnO nanostructure Zhuo Chen1, T. Salagaj², C. Jensen², K. Strobl², V. Hongpinyo³, Boon Ooi³, Mim Nakarmi¹, and Kai Shum¹, and ZnO thin film deposition on sapphire substrates by chemical vapor deposition Zhuo Chen¹, T. Salagaj², C. Jensen², K. Strobl², Mim Nakarmi¹, and Kai Shum¹, 1. Physics Department, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA 2. First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corporation, 1860 Smithtown Avenue, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779, email, KShum@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

First Nano provides turn-key solutions including deposition equipment, support equipment and processes for a variety of nanomaterials synthesis including SWNT, MWNT, Graphene, Boron Nitride Nanotube, Si nanowire, ZnO and GaN nanowire. We are also work on scaling up processes for large area continuous production of nanomaterials for commercial applications and to accelerate the commercialization of these technologies of tomorrow.

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