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PPG Announces the Introduction of SOLARPHIRE AR New Glass

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced Solarphire AR (anti-reflective) glass, a new product engineered to maximize solar energy transmission to solar-collecting photovoltaic cells.

28 Apr 2009

Lighting the Way for LED Innovation

What do automobiles, traffic lights, Christmas trees, ultrasound machines and the Statue of Liberty all have in common? The answer, surprisingly, is LED illumination. Today, LEDs power many of the products we use and the future for LEDs is very bright indeed. In fact, LEDs are poised to become the dominant source of our lighting in the future.

28 Apr 2009

High Efficacy LED Supports the Nation’s Energy Innovation Agenda and Simplifies Development of More Energy Efficient Lighting Solutions

Philips Lumileds today released LUXEON Rebel ES, the world's first high-efficacy power LED specified to deliver a minimum of 100 lumens per Watt. As the global demand for efficient lighting solutions increases, Philips Lumileds is focusing on the performance characteristics that are most important to the lighting industry.

28 Apr 2009

Revolutionary Cree LED Bulb Delivers the Same Vibrant Color as Halogen With 75 Percent Less Energy

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE) is taking another giant step in leading the LED lighting revolution by introducing the LRP-38 LED lamp. Now shipping in volume, this light provides a tightly-focused beam, exceptional color quality, extended life and unmatched energy-efficiency.

28 Apr 2009

Zecotek Receives Order for MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors from CERN

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the NA61 Experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, has submitted purchase orders for Zecotek's proprietary third generation Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes (MAPD-3N).

28 Apr 2009

Radeka Honored for Detector Development

The IEEE's Long Island Section has honored Veljko Radeka, head of the Instrumentation Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, with the Harold Wheeler Award.

28 Apr 2009

Ultrafast Lasers Benefit from Noliac Piezoelectric Stack Actuators

Ultrafast lasers benefit from Noliac Motion's 3x3 mm 60V piezoelectric stack actuators as these are ideal for compact designs requiring extremely short time scales or extremely high powers.

28 Apr 2009

‘One Board Fits All’ LED Fixtures Lit by Future Lighting Solutions

Future Lighting Solutions announced today that it assisted Montreal-based Foresight Lighting in developing 'one board fits all' LED versions of dozens of 13W, 18W and 26W CFL architectural fixtures of widely divergent shapes and sizes, significantly reducing Foresight's costs by eliminating the need to design, build and stock different light engines for each luminaire.

28 Apr 2009

A Low-Cost High-Transmission Polarizer for the Pico-Projector Market

Moxtek has developed a low-cost, high-transmission polarizer for the pico-projector market, the EXT series of polarizers.

27 Apr 2009

Affiliate Membership to Help Bring Smart, Control Networks to New Lighting Technologies

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) announced today that it has become an affiliate member of the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC).

27 Apr 2009

Supercapacitor-Optimized LED Flash Drivers From AnalogicTech, ON Semiconductor Facilitate Design

CAP-XX Limited (LSE: CPX), developer of the supercapacitor-driven BriteFlash Power Architecture, today announced availability of supercapacitor-optimized LED flash drivers from several power management integrated circuit (PMIC) companies to facilitate design of high-power LED flash units for high-resolution camera phones and digital cameras.

27 Apr 2009

Toshiba Bringing New Series of Energy Efficient LED Lighting Products to World's Largest Lighting Exhibitions

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced that the company will bring its new series of energy efficient LED lighting products to LIGHTFAIR® International 2009, one of the world’s largest lighting exhibitions.

27 Apr 2009

Thermo Fisher Wins Queens Award for Enterprise in 2009 for iCAP 6000 Series ICP-OES Instrument

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its Cambridge facility has been awarded a Queens Award for Enterprise 2009 in the Outstanding Innovation category for the iCAP 6000 Series ICP-OES instrument.

27 Apr 2009

Large Format Camera Lenses Providing Very High Resolution for Current and Future Sensors and Cameras

Custom Large Format Lenses from Resolve Optics Ltd. provide the very high resolution over a large image format required by current and future generation megapixel line scan and area scan sensors and cameras used in demanding scientific and machine vision applications.

27 Apr 2009

New Microscope Streamlines Workflow While Providing Highest Quality Imaging

Advanced Microscopy Group (a division of Westover Scientific, Inc.) announced today the launch of its newest microscope, the EVOS fl for fluorescence imaging.

27 Apr 2009