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AMS Technologies Announces Availability of EXALOS SLED-Based Broadband Light Source

EXALOS has extended its family of powerful Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes (SLEDs) with a new 100nm SLED-based Broadband Light Source at 850nm. The new product is available from AMS Technologies throughout Europe.

25 Jun 2008

The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Microscopes

The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes.

24 Jun 2008

Largest Cameras in the World to Detect the Mysterious Dark Energy

UK astronomers, as part of an international team, have reached a milestone in the construction of one of the largest ever cameras to detect the mysterious Dark Energy component of the Universe. The pieces of glass for the five unique lenses of the camera have been shipped from the US to France to be shaped and polished into their final form.

24 Jun 2008

Measuring Objects Strictly from Photographs

Imagine landing on the Moon, climbing down the ladder of your spacecraft, and looking around the harsh lunar landscape - to see another, older spacecraft standing only 200 yards away.

24 Jun 2008

Zecotek’s Proprietary MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors Successfully Tested

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced that the Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute has successfully tested Zecotek's proprietary Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes (MAPD's) in trials for its next-generation Positron Emission Tomography (PET) medical imaging program.

24 Jun 2008

Using Ultraviolet Light to Identify Organic Matter in Soils

A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that they say could be used to document the existence of life on Mars.

24 Jun 2008

New Fixed Focal Length Imaging Optics Designed for SWIR Cameras

Navitar Inc., a manufacturer of high precision optical assemblies for all machine vision applications, introduces four new fixed focal length imaging optics specifically designed for SWIR (short wave infrared) cameras and applications.

From Navitar Inc. 23 Jun 2008

Delivering Live Cell Imaging at a New Level

With the NanoTracker, the user can trap and track particles from several µm down to 30nm with the ability to control, manipulate and observe vesicles, endosomes, gene and drug spheres, viruses and bacteria, nanoprobes or -carriers, biomarkers or even whole cells in real time with nanometer precision.

23 Jun 2008

New Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope from FEI Company

Leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems FEI Company, today announced the release of the Titan 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM).

23 Jun 2008

Making Noninvasive Brain Scans Possible

In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes--previously considered bit players by most neuroscientists--make noninvasive brain scans possible.

20 Jun 2008