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White LED-Based LCD Module Boasting an Ultra-Wide Color Gamut Covering 100 Percent of the Adobe RGB Color Range

NEC LCD Technologies, and its sales and marketing channel in the Americas, NEC Electronics America, Inc., today announced the development of a new amorphous-silicon color thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) module that achieves an ultra-wide color gamut for 100 percent of the Adobe® RGB color range by incorporating a newly developed LED light-source unit into the backlight system and a newly developed color filter.

31 May 2009

Improve Sleep Quality in Older Adults

Sleep disturbances increase as we age. Some studies report more than half of seniors 65 years of age or older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances. Researchers have long believed that the sleep disturbances common among the elderly often result from a disruption of the body's circadian rhythms-biological cycles that repeat approximately every 24 hours.

31 May 2009

World's Largest Laser Marks the Dawn of a New Era

With thousands in attendance, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was officially dedicated today, setting into motion the next chapter of one of the country's greatest scientific assets.

30 May 2009

Ultra-Powerful Laser Turning Regular Incandescent Light Bulbs into Power-Sippers

An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt bulb consume less electricity than a 60-watt bulb while remaining far cheaper and radiating a more pleasant light than a fluorescent bulb can.

29 May 2009

Lasers are Making Solar Cells Competitive

Solar electricity has a future: It is renewable and available in unlimited quantities, and it does not produce any gases detrimental to the climate. Its only drawback right now is the price: the electric power currently being produced by solar cells in northern Europe must be subsidized if it is to compete against the household electricity generated by traditional power plants.

29 May 2009

High-Res Custom Lenses for a Variety of Critical Machine Vision Applications

Drawing upon over 20 years experience - Resolve Optics Ltd. has developed a reputation for designing and supplying superior quality, high resolution custom lenses for a variety of critical machine vision applications.

28 May 2009

Company to Present Advances on Highly-Efficient PHOLED Materials and Other OLED Technologies

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL announced today that it will exhibit and present advances on the Company's highly-efficient PHOLED materials and other OLED technologies at the 2009 Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition.

28 May 2009

New LED Driver Featuring "In-situ" Temperature Compensation Reduces Number of White LEDs in Portable Displays

Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of LED drivers, and Touch ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced sample availability of the LDS8161 and LDS8...

28 May 2009

An Exciting and Revolutionary New Treatment for Scars

The UltraPulse CO2 fractional laser was featured today on NBC's Today Show as an exciting and revolutionary new treatment for scars. During the broadcast, triplets who were severely burned in a fire as infants told their personal story and discussed recent treatments with the Lumenis UltraPulse laser.

28 May 2009

Dow Corning to Establish LED Silicone Production in Korea

Dow Corning establishes LED silicone production in Korea to meet growing demand

27 May 2009

Corning Receivs Two Industry Awards During Display Week 2009

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) will receive two industry awards during Display Week 2009, the annual conference of the Society for Information Display (SID), that will be held May 31 through June 5 in San Antonio, Texas.

27 May 2009

LEDs: The Light of the Future

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is a subsidiary of OSRAM, one of the two leading lighting manufacturers in the world. The semiconductor company's strategy is summarized by its mission statement: "We shape the future of light - with advanced solutions for illumination, visualization and sensing."

27 May 2009

Rainbow Solar Introduces SuperPV

Rainbow Solar Inc. (RSi), the innovative clean energy company that introduced the world's first transparent PV window announces the SuperPV: a breakthrough technology that increases the power generation of silicon solar cells by 60 - 200%.

27 May 2009

Measuring Body Temperature from a Distance to Prevent Spreading of AN1H1

Xenics, the leading developer of innovative infrared detection solutions for a wide range of applications headquartered in Europe, presents a secure and non-invasive countermeasure to the uncontrolled spreading of the respiratory disease, sometimes called swine flue, caused by the potentially pandemic virus AN1H1.

27 May 2009

Festival Creates a Brave New Green World

Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2009, one of the most prominent photonics exhibition in Asia, will be held during June 10th to 12th 2009 at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1, covering the spectrum of photovoltaic, LED, optics, and other photonic areas.

27 May 2009