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Program Focuses on Development Of Low-Power, Direct-View Flexible OLED Displays for use In Airplane Cockpits

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that the company has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory.

1 Jul 2009

AIST-NT Presents Magicscan Technology, A Set of Feedback and Scanning Process Control Algorithms

AIST-NT presents the MagicScan technology which is the set of feedback and scanning process control algorithms. These algorithms allow eliminating different dynamical errors such as overshooting, ringing and phase lag.

1 Jul 2009

Cambridge Professor Wins IOP Award For Outstanding Contributions To Physics

Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the prestigious Institute of Physics (IOP)' Business and Innovation Medal today Wednesday 1 July for outstanding contributions to physics in an industrial or commercial context.

1 Jul 2009

The Ultimate In Ultra High-Speed Imaging Performance

The SIM02 framing camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. offers the ultimate in ultra high-speed imaging performance.

1 Jul 2009

EMCCD Camera Allows Researchers to Analyse Individual Metal Nanoparticles at Rates of 100 Per Second or Faster

Using an Andor Technology Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera in combination with an imaging spectrograph and a sheath flow cuvette, researchers at the La Jolla Bioengineering Institute in California, have been able to analyse individual metal nanoparticles at rates of 100 per second or faster.

1 Jul 2009

Coherent Expands its Family of Matrix Lasers

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has expanded its family of MATRIX™ lasers with a new ultraviolet model optimized to produce 1.5 Watts at a high repetition rate of 70 kHz, in order to support high-throughput applications.

1 Jul 2009

IOP Announces 2009 Award Winners

Successful business applications such as drug screening technologies, flat-panel displays and solar-cell designs are amongst the achievements in physics recognised by the Institute of Physics' (IOP) 2009 awards, announced today (Wednesday, 1 July), along with leading research in a wide range of fields from astronomy to optical physics, and excellence in engaging the general public with physics.

1 Jul 2009

LEDs Go Greener, Save Power With Flexible, Efficient ICs

Micrel Inc., (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today rolled out the MIC3230/31/32, a new family of dedicated high brightness LED drivers.

30 Jun 2009

World's Fastest Single Port Re-Configurable Linear Image Sensors

Panavision Imaging LLC, a pioneering innovator and developer of high performance CMOS image sensors, and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq:TSEM) (TASE:TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced production of Panavision’s family of DLIS-2K re-configurable line scan CMOS image sensors.

30 Jun 2009

Innovative Technology Shatters The Barriers of Modern Light Microscopy

Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that are seated several centimeters deep into living tissue.

30 Jun 2009

Nova Measuring Instruments Announces The Launch Of Matmaker

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ: NVMI) provider of leading edge stand-alone metrology and the market leader of integrated metrology solutions to the semiconductor process control market, today announced the launching of MatMaker(TM), a Product-Driven Materials Characterization package which revolutionizes one of the most critical elements of Optical CD measurement.

30 Jun 2009

Ultra-Thin Material That Absorbs All The Incident Light.

It appears to be a paradox: ultra-thin material that absorbs all the incident light. Nonetheless, it does exist. Two Leiden researchers report on their research in 'Applied Physics Letters'. The article is among the Top 20 of the most downloaded articles of this reputable journal in May.

30 Jun 2009

New Competitively Priced LED Features Small Footprint, Robust Package Design, High Flux Output, and Extended Operating Life

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced one of the industry's smallest high-brightness 3-Watt LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications.

30 Jun 2009

Diodes Incorporated Introduces Three New LED Drivers

Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq:DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, has introduced a family of three new LED drivers that provide a cost-effective and small form factor solution for small LCD screens used across a wide range of portable consumer electronics, such as portable media players, personal navigation devices and digital photo frames.

30 Jun 2009

New LED Driver Delivers High Accuracy for LCD TVs and Monitors

Supertex (NASDAQ: SUPX), a recognized leader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), today introduced the HV9985, a three channel LED driver IC designed to provide high LED current accuracy through closed loop control of the output current.

30 Jun 2009