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Southeast Asian Optoelectronics Market to Tap the Eco-friendly Solid-state Lighting Applications Segment

Solid-state lighting could effectively address global warming concerns, as it is expected to halve energy consumption by lighting, if fully deployed. The growing consumer preference for solid-state lighting over conventional lighting is the primary driver for the Southeast Asian optoelectronics market. Its long-term benefits of energy efficiency, long life, and small size overrule its high initial costs, giving it an edge over its conventional counterparts.

5 Jan 2009

New LED Controller IC Offers Innovative Energy Saving Concept

austriamicrosystems (SWX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs for communications, industrial, medical and automotive applications, extends its portfolio of specialized LED drivers and controllers for the latest generation of LCD TV backlighting with the AS3693B 16 channel LED controller IC.

5 Jan 2009

Squeezing Light to Quantum Limit

A team of University of Toronto physicists have demonstrated a new technique to squeeze light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications for high-precision measurement, next-generation atomic clocks, novel quantum computing and our most fundamental understanding of the universe.

4 Jan 2009

High Resolution Imaging Helps Fight Terrorism

High above Iraq, Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons fly over suspected
terrorist areas, taking high-resolution images with a sophisticated photographic
system contained inside a Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System, or TARS, pod.

30 Dec 2008

Linde to Supply Turnkey Gas Supply System to Solar Cell Manufacturer

As part of its continuing success in the rapidly growing solar sector, BOC
Lien Hwa (BOCLH), Taiwan’s leading electronic gases supplier, has been
selected to supply Auria Solar in Tainan, with a wide range of bulk & specialty
gases used in the manufacturing process of solar cells

30 Dec 2008

Lens-Free Imaging Technology Inegrated into Cell Phones Used for Medical Application

In the lab of UCLA electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan, a prototype
cell phone has been constructed that is capable of monitoring the condition
of HIV and malaria patients, as well as testing water quality in undeveloped
areas or disaster sites. The innovative imaging technology was invented by Ozcan,
a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, and has been miniaturized
by researchers in his lab to the point that it can fit in standard cell phones.

29 Dec 2008

Nanoscopic Metal Nanoparticles Boost Solar Cell Performance

A paper
in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical
Society's (OSA) open-access journal, describes a relatively new approach
to solar cells: lacing them with nanoscopic metal particles. As the authors
describe in the article, this approach has the potential to greatly improve
the ability of solar cells to harvest light efficiently.

29 Dec 2008

Successful Measurement of the Time Intervals that Enable the Direct Measurement of Electrons in Laser Induced Ionisation

Physicists have worked on the quantum physics description of the tunnelling
effect for 60 years. The group led by Ursula Keller has now for the first time
succeeded in measuring time intervals that enable the direct measurement of
the tunnelling time of electrons in laser-induced ionisation.

29 Dec 2008

New Study Shows LED Lighting to Save $1.8 Trillion

Solid-state lighting that replaces incandescent and fluorescent bulbs with light-emitting diodes can reap enormous savings in cost, natural resources and pollution, according to a recent study by Rensselaer Polytechnic I...

23 Dec 2008

Revolutionary Cell Phones Use Lens-Free Imaging to Monitor Patient's Health

Cell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine. In the lab of UCLA electric...

23 Dec 2008

Princeton Engineers Develop New Type of Laser for Medical Applications

A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding could lead to lasers that operate more efficiently and at higher temperatures than existing devices, and find applications in environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics.

23 Dec 2008

Standard Researchers Develop New Nanoscale Cancer Detection System for the Human Body

Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have developed a system that should be able to detect cancer in the human body. The blood scanner,...

23 Dec 2008

Scientists Turning to Nature and Nanotechnology for Revolutionary Cancer Diagnostics

Scientists from the EU-funded RECEPTRONICS project are turning to nature, and combining what they learn with the latest in nanotechnology, to find new ways of diagnosing cancer. The project, funded by the EU with EUR 1.99 million under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), brings together experts from four European countries in the fields of biochemistry, bioengineering, nanotechnology and information technology.

23 Dec 2008

High Power LED Introduced in Life-Enhancing Healthkiosks Booths

LED*Waves, a world-leading manufacturer of high-end LED lights, today announced that Phoenix Kiosk, Inc., a manufacturer of self-service kiosks, used LED*Waves' High Power LED Recess Light to illuminate their innovative, life-enhancing Secure Medical Healthkiosks® booths.

22 Dec 2008

Schott Release EasyLED Solution for Industrial and Biological Applications

These low energy consuming lighting solutions are designed to bring high-performance illumination to industrial, biological lab, and home applications. Both products come with integrated controllers and can be mounted directly to the microscope

22 Dec 2008