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Sencera Demonstrates 8.7% Efficient Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell

Sencera, a manufacturer of thin film silicon based photovoltaic modules, has successfully deposited single-junction silicon solar cells with an initial 8.7% sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency under standard test conditions.

19 Mar 2009

Scientists Demonstrate Microwave Signal Mixer Made from Tunnel-Junction Transistor Laser

Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers a big step closer to higher speed electronics and higher performance electrical and optical integrated circuits.

19 Mar 2009

EMCORE Corporation Awarded Active Optical Cable Patent

EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, today announced that it has received a patent award for its Active Optical Cable technology.

19 Mar 2009

Seeing Molecules Move in Real-Time

"Watching chemical reactions in real-time has long been a dream of chemists," says Tahei Tahara of RIKEN's Advanced Science Institute in Wako. "To reach a correct understanding of chemical reactions, this 'watching' is crucial."

18 Mar 2009

UV Light Could Slash TB Transmission

Installing ultraviolet C (UVC, a type of UV ray) lights in the upper part of wards and waiting rooms could cut the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in hospitals by 70%, new international research published in the journal PLoS Medicine reveals.

18 Mar 2009

Researchers Designed New High-Performing Photoconducting Material Using Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture of very powerful photodetectors needs to be improved before they can qualify for solid green status.

18 Mar 2009

Blue Ridge Numerics and Bolton Photosciences Collaborate to Provide Industry-First Upfront CFD UV Reactor Design Tool

Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. today announced the availability of the new CFdesign UVCalc Module, an industry-first Upfront CFD solution for simulating and validating ultraviolet (UV) reactor performance to ensure accurate fluence rates (irradiances) for UV light disinfection.

18 Mar 2009

Competitively Priced 3-in-1 LED Features Superior Lumens-Per-Watt Efficiency and Extended Operating Life

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced its first 3-Watt (3W) Moonstone™ tricolor red, green and blue (RGB) LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state architectural and commercial lighting applications.

18 Mar 2009

nLIGHT Introduces New Line of Photodarkening Resistant Ytterbium Fibers

nLIGHT Corporation (nLIGHT) announced today the availability of new highly doped, photodarkening resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent (%) higher absorption at 920 nanometer (nm) and pump conversion efficiencies routinely over 75 %.

18 Mar 2009

Machine Vision Technology Gives Solar Cell Manufacturers New Opportunities to Increase Productivity and Lower Costs

DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA), a global leader in machine vision technology, today announced its entrance into the solar cell inspection market. The company's efficiencies and expertise in area scan, line scan, and embedded processing for inspection in the flat-panel display industry are now being successfully applied to solar cell inspection, resulting in high quality, yet cost-effective inspection capabilities for the solar cell industry.

18 Mar 2009

Lambda Research Corporation Delivers TracePro 5.0 Optomechanical Design Software

Lambda Research Corporation announces the release of TracePro® 5.0, the newest version of its leading optomechanical design software. TracePro 5.0 provides an all new interface for modeling optical sources.

18 Mar 2009

DuPont Expects to Triple its Annual PV Sales to More than USD 1 Billion in 2012

DuPont expects to nearly triple its annual photovoltaic sales to more than USD 1 billion in 2012 based on strong fundamentals for long-term revenue growth in the photovoltaic solar energy market, combined with the company’s ability to deliver new technologies to the industry.

17 Mar 2009

Samsung Introducing Low-cost DID Panel Series

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs), today announced that it has begun mass producing a more economical line of digital information displays for indoor applications, where round-the-clock use isn't needed.

17 Mar 2009

OFC/NFOEC Features Breakthroughs in Next-Generation Metamaterials and Optical Communications

The world's largest international conference on optical communications begins next week and continues from March 22-26 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the premier meeting where experts from industry and academia intersect and share their results, experiences, and insights on the future of electronic and wireless communication and the optical technologies that will enable it.

17 Mar 2009

Planar's TFEL Display Glass Selected by Jetronic for China Market

Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced that its proprietary thin film electroluminescent (TFEL) display technology will be incorporated in industrial products manufactured by Jetronic Technology for the domestic China market, as well as in a product manufactured by a U.S. company specializing in public safety products.

17 Mar 2009