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Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

Energy Program Focusing on Novel Photovoltaic Materials and Solar Power Plants

MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants.

15 Jan 2008

Aerotech Goniometer Stages Aimed at Optical Component Industry

Aerotech's ANT-20G goniometer stages provide a compact, high speed and high throughput solution for single or multi-axis angular positioning and alignment applications where free access is required at the central point of rotation.

15 Jan 2008

Using Nanocoating to Concentrate Solar Radiation

nCoat, Inc. has announced the signing of an agreement for business collaboration and commercial product development with Sunvention USA, Inc. and BSR Solar Technologies GmbH using nCoat nanotechnology coatings in a Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) system.

10 Jan 2008

Smallest Color Display in the LCD Industry

Kopin Corporation announces smallest color SVGA display (800 x 600 resolution) in the LCD industry. The CyberDisplay SVGA LVS microdisplay has the same size (0.44' diagonal) as Kopin’s current CyberDisplay VGA display (640 x 480 resolution), allowing it to utilize the same optics and housing developed for the VGA display.

8 Jan 2008

Providing Extraordinary Vision to Facilitate Quality Healthcare

Vision-Sciences, Inc., announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to market its new advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope, which is used in conjunction with an integrated “built-in” light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

7 Jan 2008

Flexure-Based Piezo Actuators Provide Virtually Unlimited Resolution and Lifetime

Scientists have used magnetic fields and tiny iron-bearing particles to drive healthy cells to targeted sites in blood vessels. The research, done in animals, may lead to a new method of delivering
cells and genes to repair injured or diseased organs in people.

7 Jan 2008

Researchers First to Achieve Optical Waveguiding of Near-Infrared Light

Researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to achieve optical waveguiding of near-infrared light through features embedded in self-assembled, three-dimensional photonic crystals. Applications for the optically active crystals include low-loss waveguides, low-threshold lasers and on-chip optical circuitry.

7 Jan 2008

Fibre Lasers Opens the Door to New Applications

The two main goals of the project were to develop ultra-fast laser systems operating at different wavelengths, and to develop and test broadband fibre sources.

6 Jan 2008