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VLCC Releases Visible Light Communication Standard Based on IrDA Core Specification

Visible Light Communications Consortium (VLCC) released their first Specification Standard adopting and expanding the IrDA Physical Layer to the newly released Visible Light Communication Consortium (VLCC) Specification Standard.

12 Mar 2009

Webb Mirrors Coming Together

Mirrors are a critical part of any space telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors are made of a special element that will enable it to withstand the rigors of space and see farther back in time/distance than any other telescope now in operation.

12 Mar 2009

OLED Lighting Market to Reach $6 Billion by 2018

The OLED lighting market is setting the stage to take off in 2011, with OLED lighting revenues forecasted to surpass PMOLED displays in the 2013/2014 timeframe, reaching $6 billion by 2018, according to DisplaySearch's newly-released report, OLED Lighting in 2009 and Beyond: The Bright Future.

12 Mar 2009

Himax Announces CMOS Image Sensor Shipments

Himax Technologies, Inc. ("Himax" or "Company") (Nasdaq:HIMX) today announced that in less than two years since the company established its CMOS image sensor team, it has launched 3-mega-pixel, 2-mega-pixel and VGA sensors and will soon commence small-scale commercial shipments to one of the world's leading cell phone camera module manufacturers. The Company expects the product segment to ramp in the second half of the year.

11 Mar 2009

Lambda Photometrics Announce Launch of New C-Band Tuneable Laser from LUNA Technologies

Lambda Photometrics are pleased to announce the launch of a new C-band tuneable laser from LUNA Technologies.

11 Mar 2009

New NanoCD Suite Greatly Enhances Power of OCD Analysis for Most Demanding Process Control Applications

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology equipment, today announced the release of its latest NanoCD Suite of solutions for optical critical dimension (OCD) metrology. The new NanoCD Suite Version 2.0 greatly enhances the power of OCD analysis for the most demanding process control applications.

11 Mar 2009

Polarizers May Enhance Remote Chemical Detection

Information provided by LIBS, however, is sometimes clouded by interfering signals caught by the spectroscope -- and eliminating the background can be expensive. But a group of chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago reports that equipping LIBS with a polarizing filter can do the job at a lower cost and probably with equal or greater sensitivity than the tools presently in use.

11 Mar 2009

Revolutionary Telescope Providing a New Way to Look at the Sky

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced that it will manufacture the secondary mirror substrate for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The 8.4-meter LSST is a ground-based facility that is expected to see first light from Cerro Pachón, Chile, in 2014.

11 Mar 2009

Coherent Launches Infrared Version of Company's Award-Winning Verdi Family of Solid State Lasers

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has launched an infrared version of the company's award-winning Verdi family of solid state lasers, delivering 25 Watts of single-mode CW output at 1064 nm.

10 Mar 2009

Semi-Polar GaN Layer for Optoelectronic Devices

Now the technical team at Oxford Instruments-TDI, led by Dr. Alexander Usikov, has made significant progress in solving this problem, and is working closely with a leading LED manufacturer to fabricate these semi-polar GaN layer for optoelectronic devices. This would increase radiative recombination efficiency and device performance.

10 Mar 2009

Analyzer Fills the Gap of Amplitude and Phase-Modulated Optical Signal Analysis

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the industry's first time-domain based optical modulation analyzer offering in-depth analysis of amplitude and phase-modulated optical signals. This optical test instrument was developed in close cooperation with Agilent Laboratories, the central research arm of Agilent Technologies.

10 Mar 2009

Turning Sunlight into Liquid Fuels

For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial version of photosynthesis that can be used to produce liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and water.

10 Mar 2009

austriamicrosystems Introduces Ultra Small LED Driver with Error Detection for 8X8 Matrix Displays

austriamicrosystems (SWX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications, expanded its comprehensive LED driver portfolio with the AS1116, an ultra small multiplexed LED driver. The AS1116 operates from a single 2.7V to 5.5V supply while requiring lowest supply current of 0.6mA during operation and 200nA in shutdown mode.

10 Mar 2009

AU Optronics to Demonstrate New Leading Technologies of TFT-LCDs at FPD China 2009

AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) will exhibit the latest TFT-LCD technologies and products from March 11 to 13 in FPD China 2009 in INTEX Shanghai, China.

10 Mar 2009

National Taiwan University Orders AIXTRON MOCVD Tool for White LEDs

AIXTRON AG today announced that in the fourth quarter 2008 the National Taiwan University (NTU), based in Taipei City, Taiwan, ordered one Close Coupled Showerhead 3x2" wafer Research Platform MOCVD system. It will be used for research and development on GaN and related materials and devices and it will be delivered in the third quarter 2009.

10 Mar 2009