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High Yield Fabrication of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds

The laboratory " Structure - Activité of Normal + Pathologic Biomolecules - SANPB ", Inserm / UEVE U829 (Genopole Evry, France) in collaboration with the Material Centre of Mines-ParisTech (Evry, France), the NRG - UMR 5060 CNRS / UTBM (Technology University of Belfort-Montbéliard) and the Physic Institute of Stuttgart University (Germany) discovered a novel route to fabricate fluorescent nanoparticles from diamond microcrystals. Results are published in Nanotechnology June10 2009 issue.

4 Jun 2009

Organic Lighting Offers a Bright Future

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are set to revolutionize lighting technology, ushering in an era of thin, flexible, and ultra-bright devices. At the heart of recent OLED devices are phosphorescent metal complexes that, when stimulated by an electric voltage, produce a sustained emission of light with higher efficiency than other sources.

4 Jun 2009

World's First Greenhouse Gas Free Thin-Film Solar Module Factory

Delivering a major step forward in sustainable solar power, Malibu today launched the world's first thin-film solar module factory that completely eliminates the use of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a greenhouse gas with a significant global warming potential, from the manufacturing process.

4 Jun 2009

AUO Showcases World's Largest 65" 3D Display and eBook for First Time

AU Optronics Corp. today announced it will exhibit a series of advanced technologies at Display Taiwan 2009 (June 10-12 in Taipei, Taiwan), including the world's largest 65-inch 3D display, enabled with 12 views, and the world's thinnest VA 3-inch touch panel.

4 Jun 2009

Boost For Laser Alignment Detection Product Sales

Applied Scintillation Technologies Ltd (AST) reports that over 7000 of its 'credit card' style VISUALIZE® phosphor products were sold in FY 2008/9. The VISUALIZE® (VisualizeIR, VISualize and UVisualize) range of products use specialized phosphor coatings to provide a safe image of the beam for infrared (IR), visible to near infrared and ultraviolet lasers. This addresses the problems of profile measurements and component alignment of laser and laser diode modules.

4 Jun 2009

Making LED Lights Even More Energy Efficient

Add the search for economical, long-lasting, brighter lights that use less energy to the list of energy topics occupying the attention of West Virginia University scientists and engineers.

3 Jun 2009

Luxtera and Freescale Semiconductor Enabling High Volume Manufacturing of Monolithic Electro-Photonic Integrated Circuits

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced its collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor as its foundry source to achieve production of the world's first commercial Silicon CMOS Photonics semiconductor manufacturing process.

3 Jun 2009

OSRAM Expands LED Portfolio Across the Entire Performance Range

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has expanded its LED portfolio for the projection market with two new LEDs, OSTAR Compact and OSTAR Power Projection. OSTAR Compact is designed for small, efficient systems in cell phones, PDAs and MP4 players.

3 Jun 2009

Microsemi Ships High-Performance LED Controller and Driver Chipset

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading manufacturer of high performance analog/mixed signal integrated circuits and high reliability semiconductors, today extended its comprehensive line of backlight-driving IC solutions with the production release of the company's LX24132 32-port LED backlight controller and LX23108L 8-port LED driver.

3 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Solar Joins IMEC's Newly Launched Silicon Photovoltaics Industrial Affiliation Program

SCHOTT Solar, a leading photovoltaics manufacturer, entered into a 3 year research partnership with IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center. SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC's newly launched silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program (IIAP).

From imec Inc. 3 Jun 2009

Ultra-Powerful Laser Pulls Liquid Uphill

In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle-but does so at a speed that would make nature envious.

2 Jun 2009

Steinel Introduces XLed Range of Security Floodlights Powered by LUXEON Rebel LEDs

Steinel, a German manufacturer of intelligent lighting fixtures, has introduced its XLed range of security floodlights powered by LUXEON Rebel LEDs that use one-third of the energy consumed by conventional floodlights.

2 Jun 2009

Interactive Data Eyeglasses

The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer's eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.

2 Jun 2009

NextWindow Awarded Two Key Technology Patents

NextWindow, the leader in optical touch screens for all-in-one PCs and large-format displays, has been awarded two key technology patents, one in the US and another in China.

1 Jun 2009

Research Agreement to Develop Next Generation High Efficiency Solar Cells

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy"), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") product manufacturers, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands ("ECN"), a leading solar research center in Europe, and Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASYS) ("Amtech"), a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, today announced a three-party research collaboration agreement to develop next generation high efficiency solar cells.

1 Jun 2009