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Full Colour Range of Displays using Quantum Dot Technology

Nanoco Technologies is producing a full colour range of displays using their proprietary quantum dots which includes their cadmium free quantum dot technology (CFQDTM).

15 Feb 2009

The Start of a Revolution in the World's Energy Supply and Usage

In a few years, photovoltaic solar energy will have become a competitive energy source in major markets in the world. Without the need for subsidies. This will be the start of a revolution in the world's energy supply and usage. Are we prepared for this?

15 Feb 2009

Powerful Tool for Reading Beneath the Paint on a Parchment Document

About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.

15 Feb 2009

New Spectroscopy Technique May Help Detect Deadly Disease Early

A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though the new technique has not yet proven effective in double-blind clinical trials, it may one day help diagnose cancers of the pancreas and, potentially, other organs at their earliest and most treatable stages, before they spread.

13 Feb 2009

Acquisition Expands Navitar's In-House Optical Coating Capabilities

Navitar, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision optical systems, announced today the recent sale of Navitar Coating Labs, located in Newport Beach, California. The decision was made to sell the coatings division based on the success of Navitar's recent acquisition of Special Optics, a Wharton, New Jersey firm, which has quadrupled the company's optical design capabilities and expanded Navitar's in-house optical coating capabilities.

From Navitar Inc. 12 Feb 2009

Palomar Technologies to Exhibit at 2009 Strategies in Light Exhibition and Conference

Palomar Technologies announced today it will return to exhibit at the 2009 Strategies in Light Exhibition and Conference to be held February 18 - 20, 2009 in Santa Clara, California.

12 Feb 2009

Improved Sensor Technology Could Keep Tabs on Terrorists by Remote Control

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.

12 Feb 2009

A. Kruess Optronic Introduces Small Software Revolution for Polarimeter P8000

In time for the Analytica Vietnam, A. Kruess Optronic presents a small software revolution for its flagship polarimeter P8000. The improvements and extensions made are almost a quantum jump in regards to the software.

12 Feb 2009

Carl Zeiss Meditec Launches Visalis 100 for Surgical Treatment of Cataracts

Carl Zeiss Meditec successfully launched its new Visalis 100 system for the surgical treatment of cataracts at the most important ophthalmic meeting in India, the AIOC (All India Ophthalmology Congress) - which took place this year in Jaipur from 5 - 8 February. For the first time, the company chose a growth market for the initial presentation of an innovation.

12 Feb 2009

Thermal Models for Computing LED Designing Available from Osram Opto Semiconductors

Once again, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
is demonstrating its high level of customer support by providing for the first
time thermal models for computing different LED designs as downloads.

12 Feb 2009

Beams From the Sky Map the Ground Underfoot

Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping tools available to geologists and hydrologists have had their limits.

12 Feb 2009

Carmanah Partners With Shine Micro to Combine Solar-Powered Marine Lanterns With AIS Technology

Solar technology provider Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) has partnered with Shine Micro Inc. to add an automatic identification system (AIS) capability to its line of stand-alone solar-powered LED (light emitting diode) marine lanterns.

11 Feb 2009

Worldwide Optical, TEM and SEM Microscope Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts

Research and Markets has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide Optical, Transmission TEM, and Scanning SEM Electron Microscope Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015" to their offering.

11 Feb 2009

Luna Innovations Announces Solar Cell Research Published in Nature Materials

The paper titled "Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices" presents a unique approach to enhance flexible, plastic solar cells, also known as organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, by modifying the acceptor material rather than the donor material.

11 Feb 2009

NanoMarkets Announces Report on Transparent Conductors Including Indium Tin Oxide and ITO Replacement

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced the addition of a new report to its schedule. The report, "Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductor Markets" will be released in Mid-March of 2009.

11 Feb 2009