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Taking Parking Deck Lighting to New Heights

For areas with low mounting heights, the GE Evolve™ LED Garage Light Fixture from GE Lighting Systems, Inc. provides a long lasting, energy-efficient lighting solution.

9 Jul 2009

Quantum Computers And Tossing A Coin In The Microcosm

Professor Dieter Meschede's group has been working on the development of so-called quantum computers now for many years. With the 'quantum walk' the team has now achieved a further seminal step on this path. 'With the effect we have demonstrated, entirely new algorithms can be implemented,' Artur Widera explains.

9 Jul 2009

Miniaturized Lasers Emit Quantum Light

For more than 100 years it has been known that light comes in small packages, the so-called photons. The discovery of this quantization of the light field has opened up a new field of physics - quantum optics.

9 Jul 2009

HV9961 LED Driver Achieves High Accuracy Without High-Side Current Sensing

Supertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPX) today introduced the HV9961, an average-mode, constant control LED driver integrated circuit (IC) designed to drive LEDs using a buck topology. It is well suited for a variety of solid-state lighting applications.

9 Jul 2009

Primo Star iLED for Training and Routine Fluorescence Microscopy

The Primo Star iLED microscope from Carl Zeiss is now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence applications in training, routine procedures and basic research.

9 Jul 2009

New Line of Energy Efficient LED Parking Garage Fixtures for Existing Buildings

Energy Focus, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFOI), a global leader in energy-efficient lighting technologies, today announced that it is offering a 2, 3, and 4 lamp LED Parking Garage Fixture using its newest LED lighting solution - energy efficient LED Light Tubes.

8 Jul 2009

Acquisition Aimed at Expanding Production Scale of Print Heads for LED Printers

OKI Data Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the conclusion of a basic agreement under which OKI Digital Imaging Corporation (ODI) will acquire the land, buildings, and utilities of the former semiconductor front-end process line (Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture) of the Gunma Development Design and Device Division of Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc.

8 Jul 2009

Ultra Life Headlamps Ideal for Anyone Who Spends a Lot of Time Driving

With OSRAM’s Ultra Life headlamps the name says it all. These durable lamps are the ideal solution for anyone who spends a lot of time driving, has dipped lights on during daytime, often travels at night or has vehicles that make lamp replacements difficult.

8 Jul 2009

Michelson Diagnostics Announces the Launch of 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT Scanner

Michelson Diagnostics Limited (MDL), the UK manufacturer of Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners, is pleased to formally announce the launch of its 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT scanner.

8 Jul 2009

Uni-Pixel Displays Awarded Contract to Develop Roll to Roll Conductor Patterning Process

Uni-Pixel, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: UNXL), the developer of a color display technology called Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter ("TMOS"), today announced that it has joined the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

8 Jul 2009

New Security Device That Ensures All Information On Optical Disks is Destroyed and Rendered Useless

Proton Data Security is announcing the new Proton model 1250A, a security device that ensures all information on compact disks (CD, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-ROM) and optical disks (DVD) is destroyed and rendered useless in an environmentally responsible manner.

8 Jul 2009

Collecting Images Like a Camera But Without a Lens

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Large-Area TFT LCD Backlight Optical Film Grew by More than 22 Percent Q/Q

In its newly-released Quarterly Display Optical Film Report, DisplaySearch indicated that Q2'09 demand for large-area TFT LCD backlight optical film grew by more than 22% Q/Q, to 56 million square meters from 45.9 million square meters in Q1'09.

7 Jul 2009

Researchers Design Device Making Objects Invisible Under Certain Light

A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency electromagnetic waves - by making the inside of the magnetic field zero but not altering the exterior field.

7 Jul 2009

Jenoptik Expands Presence in Asia

Jenoptik's Lasers + Material Processing division will in future be represented in the Asian market with a laser application center, in close cooperation with the Korean company Telstar-Hommel Corp.. Byung-Hoon Im, President and CEO of Telstar-Hommel, and Michael Mertin, CEO of JENOPTIK AG, signed the shareholders agreement for JENOPTIK Korea Corp., on July 2nd. Telstar-Hommel will hold 33.3 percent of shares in the company which is headquartered in Pyeongtaek (Gyeonggi Province). With 66.6 percent, JENOPTIK AG will be the majority shareholder.

7 Jul 2009