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Tamron's New Vari-Focal Lenses Delivers High-Definition Images

Tamron Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Saitama City; President: Morio Ono) today announced the development of two 1/3"-format 2.8-8mm F/1.2 Vari-Focal lenses (Models M13VM288IR/M13VG288IR) that are compatible with 3-Mega-pixel-Day/Night cameras.

9 Mar 2010

Vistec Lithography System Selected for Nanotechnology Research Programs

Vistec Lithography, Inc. announced today that Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, selected Vistec’s EBPG5000plus electron-beam lithography system for its future nanotechnology research programs.

9 Mar 2010

Essilor Launches Varilux Physio Lens with WAVE 2.0 Technology

Essilor is launching Varilux Physio 2.0, the latest addition to the Varilux lineup. The new generation Varilux Physio lens featuring WAVE 2.0™ (Wavefront Advanced Vision Enhancement) technology.

9 Mar 2010

New Technique Allows Physicists to See Through Opaque Substances

Materials such as paper, paint, and biological tissue are opaque because the light that passes through them is scattered in complicated and seemingly random ways.

9 Mar 2010

Canon Launches Advanced Multimedia Projector for Classroom Environment

Canon U.S.A., Inc, a leader in digital imaging, today announced the launch of the REALiS SX7 Mark II Multimedia LCOS Projector.

9 Mar 2010

Pitt Study Concludes LED Lamps as Cost-Effective and Energy-Efficient Products

University of Pittsburgh researchers have conducted the first cradle-to-grave assessment of light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights and determined that the increasingly popular lamps strike the best balance between brightness, affordability, and energy and environmental conservation when their life span—from production to disposal—is considered.

9 Mar 2010

Nexxus Lighting Introduces New Array Quantum LED R30 Replacement Lamps

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) announced today it has begun production and shipment of its new Array™ Quantum LED R30 replacement light bulb.

9 Mar 2010

Lightwave Logic Presentation at Annual OC Growth Stock Conference

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of electro-optic polymer materials for applications in high speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing, announced today that CEO James Marcelli, Chairman Phillips W. Smith and Technology Guru Terry Turpin will present at the ROTH Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC Growth Stock Conference which will be held March 15-17, 2010 at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dana Point, California.

9 Mar 2010

New Surface Sampling Probe Allows Accurate Analysis of Material Composition

A technology that can enhance collection of data from studying the compositions on a material surface has earned the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory the Excellence in Technology Transfer Project of t...

9 Mar 2010

NIST Results Strengthens BIO-key's Position as Top Provider of Fingerprint Biometric Software

BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that in the recent test results published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), BIO-key's accuracy improved by a remarkable 23% on the DHS2 Dataset.

9 Mar 2010

Yingli Green Energy to Develop New Manufacturing Facility for PV Cell Production

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, which holds the brand "Yingli Solar," today announced a 300 MW PANDA mono-crystalline silicon-based manufacturing capacity expansion project at its Baoding headquarters.

9 Mar 2010

XsunX Reaches Significant Milestone with Hybrid Chamber Design

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), the developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, today announced the company has reached a significant milestone in its development process: the completion of a co-evaporation processing chamber design that combines several thermal evaporation techniques in one unified process to produce the CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) solar cell's absorber layer.

9 Mar 2010

Axis Surgical Receive FDA Approval to Market Visualization Device for Diagnostic Arthroscopy and Endoscopicy

Axis Surgical Technologies, Inc., announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market their C-MOR(TM) Visualization Device for use in diagnostic and operative arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures. The self-contained portable direct-imaging tool provides illumination and visualization of an interior cavity through either a natural or surgical opening.

8 Mar 2010

New High Brightness, Conduction-Cooled Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser Module from DILAS

DILAS, the diode laser company, has developed a high brightness, conduction-cooled fiber-coupled diode laser module based on diode laser bars that provides up to 40 watts output power from a 100-micron fiber core at a wavelength of 976nm with a numerical aperture of <0.22.

8 Mar 2010

Princeton Instruments Introduces Lightfield Software for Use with Cameras and Spectrometers

Princeton Instruments, the world leader in optical spectroscopy and CCD, EMCCD, and ICCD camera technology, is pleased to introduce LightField™, an all-new 64-bit data acquisition software platform designed for use in spectroscopy and scientific imaging applications.

8 Mar 2010