Optics & Photonics News

Samsung Introduces New u-LTCOF Packaging Solution for Display Panel Manufacturers

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced its latest heat dissipation packaging technology solution for display driver ICs (DDIs) in high-end TV applications.

World's First All-in-One LED Desk Light Launched by M+C

M&C launches "The Most Talented Light", the world's first all-in-one LED desk light with integrated charging ability for most notebooks and mobile phones as well as all iPhone and iPod products.

Coherent Completes Acquisition of Beam Dynamics; In Addition Partners with SiOnyx for Solar Cell Production

Coherent, Inc. (Nasdaq: COHR), today announced the completion of its all cash acquisition of Beam Dynamics for $6.25 million excluding transaction fees.

New HALOS-Based Adaptive Optics for Military Applications

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported holographic, adaptive, optics research may help transform software into computer-free, electronics for unmanned aerial vehicles, high energy lasers and free-space optical communications that will enable each to run faster and more efficiently than before.

Research on Purple Bacteria Helps in Development of Solar Panels

Neil Johnson, a physicist and head of the inter-disciplinary research group in complexity in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, thinks its cellular arrangement could be adapted for use in solar panels and other energy conversion devices to offer a more efficient way to garner energy from the sun.

NEC Adds 52-Inch S521 LCD Display to its S Series

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced the addition of the 52-inch S521 to its S Series, which includes the 40-inch S401 and 46-inch S461 LCD displays.

Shrink to Market Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator Technologies Under PowerSkin Brand

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it has received notification that it has purchased the PowerSkin™ trademarks from the bankruptcy estate associated with the Millennium Cell.

New Plastic-Based Technology Helps to Develop Smaller, Flexible Optical Communication Devices

It looks like a piece of gel that slips into the sole of your sneaker, but it's a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster ¯ a communications technology "enabler" that may be in use only five or ten years in the future, currently being created by Dr. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.

New Treatment for War Injuries Using Light-Activated Technology

Airmen's traumatic battlefield injuries may be more effectively treated by using a new light-activated technology developed as a result of research managed by Air Force Office of Scientific Research and supported by funds from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Analysis Report on Impact of AFPD Acquisition by AUO

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "AUO's AFPD Acquisition and Its Implications for Small- and Medium-size Panel Industry Development" report to their offering.

AMS Technologies Presents New Fused PM Couplers at 780 nm

AMS Technologies presents the new fused PM couplers at 780 nm, an extension of the PM coupler series from Gooch + Housego. Typical applications include power monitoring of PM sources, high power fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and fiber gyroscopes.

AMS Technologies Presents New Fused PM Couplers at 780 nm

New SunPower E19 Series Solar Panels Set Record of 19% or Greater Efficiency

SunPower Corp., a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced its new SunPower E19 Series solar panels, a product line that offers modules in a 96-cell or 72-cell configuration, with a record efficiency of 19 percent or greater.

LightLab to Exhibit its Optical Intravascular Imaging System at SCAI Meeting in San Diego

LightLab Imaging, Inc., the pioneer in development and world leader in sales of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems for vascular and other imaging applications, will exhibit at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) meeting in San Diego, CA May 5 to 8, in booth 28.

IDTechEx’s New Report Includes Forecasts on OLEDs and OPV

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Barrier Films for Flexible Electronics: Needs Players & Opportunities 2010-2020" report to their offering.