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GlacialLight Launches Brand New LED-MR16 Light Bulb

LED light manufacturer GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is launching a brand new LED-MR16 light bulb. The new green energy saving LED light is a much more enhanced version of current LED MR16 models available in markets today.

3 Mar 2009

Nanostructure Boosts Efficiency In Energy Transport

Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates significantly greater efficiency in the transport of electrons.

3 Mar 2009

Zecotek Receives Grant Payment From the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced it has received grant payments from the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).

3 Mar 2009

Cascade Microtech Production Qualifies ESI's Laser Probe Tip Cleaning System

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced its LaserMill system has been production qualified for the cleaning of Cascade Microtech's advanced probe tips. Based on the success of the system, Cascade Microtech - a leading provider of advanced wafer probing solutions - has implemented the LaserMill as the process tool of record for probe tip cleaning in its Beaverton, Ore. manufacturing facility.

3 Mar 2009

World's First Proven Ultrasound Holographic Imaging Allows Correction of Subsurface Defects

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today joined with Northwestern University to announce successful demonstration of a unique ultrasound holography approach that enables scientists to view the tiniest of buried structures.

3 Mar 2009

GigOptix Announces Continuation of Contract with US Air Force Research Laboratory

GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB: GGOX), a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world, announced today the continuation of their contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory, valued at approximately $2.7 million over the next 12 months, to carry on fabricating reliable, low driving voltage, electro-optic modulators using GigOptix's high-performance organic polymers.

3 Mar 2009

Industry's First 8-Bit MCUs for Segmented Display Applications with Hardware Real-Time Clock and Integrated Capacitive-Touch Peripheral

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced the PIC18F87J90 8-bit direct LCD-drive microcontrollers (MCUs) with nanoWatt Technology. The 64- and 80-pin devices extend the memory reach and peripheral set of Microchip’s LCD MCU portfolio.

3 Mar 2009

New PicoQuant module offers highly flexible FLIM and FCS analyses

Olympus has announced that its FluoView FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope (cLSM) and FV1000MPE Multiphoton ranges can now be fitted with the PicoQuant module for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS).

From Picoquant GmbH 3 Mar 2009

Inserting Catheters Without X-Rays

X-rays penetrate the patient's body, helping the doctor guide the catheter through the artery. In future, it will be possible to monitor the position of the catheter without exposing the patient to X-ray radiation, and without the need for a contrast medium.

3 Mar 2009

Instant Control for Laser Welding

A novel camera system has 25,000 processors integrated in its pixels which work together to analyze images the instant they are taken - over ten times faster than a computer. This allows to automatically adjust the output of a laser as it performs welding operations.

3 Mar 2009

New Osaka Street Lamps Lit by LUXEON Power LEDs

Philips Lumileds today announced the installation of the first street lights using LUXEON power LEDs in Osaka Prefecture in Japan, reflecting the emergence of solid-state lighting as an energy-efficient alternative to street lamps using standard light sources.

3 Mar 2009

Future Lighting Solutions Aids Development of New LED Train Lights for Hong Kong's MTR

Future Lighting Solutions announced today that it provided key technical design assistance for new energy-saving LED light fixtures unveiled last month on the Hong Kong MTR (Mass Transit Railway).

2 Mar 2009

Siimpel Announces Investment by LG Innotek

Siimpel Corporation, a leading supplier of optical micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) based solutions for the mobile market, announced today that it has received additional investment in support of its groundbreaking MEMS technology and product development for mobile camera applications from LG Innotek Co. Ltd., Korea's leading provider of core components for cameras, display modules, and other wireless communications products.

2 Mar 2009

Champlain Cable Corporation Creates a New Photovoltaic Wire

Champlain Cable Corporation of Colchester, Vermont has entered the renewable energy industry with two new cable solutions for photovoltaic arrays. The Exar 150PV and the Exar 180PV are both UL rated photovoltaic wires and are the latest products to be released by Champlain Cable.

2 Mar 2009

QD Vision Named AlwaysOn GoingGreen 50 Winner

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been selected to the 2009 GoingGreen East 50 Top Private Company List.

2 Mar 2009