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MODE Solutions 4.0 for Optical Interconnects and Silicon Photonics Applications

Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of MODE Solutions Release 4.0.

12 Mar 2010

Optical Experiments to Detect Quantum Properties in Viruses

The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms.

12 Mar 2010

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Helps to Analyze Photosynthetic Protein

For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental behavior.

12 Mar 2010

High Performance Av Event to Feature the Latest 3D Projectors

Silver Screen and Sound will host their first-annual “High Performance AV Event” on March 12 and 13 in Towson, Maryland. Audio visual aficionados are invited to explore precision entertainment for the home, as well as experience the most immersive 3D projector available to the home cinema channel today.

12 Mar 2010

Techniques Behind Lasers to be Featured at 2010 APS Meeting

The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) -- the largest physics meeting of the year -- will take place from March 15-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Convention Center and the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel.

12 Mar 2010

Google's Network Architect to Discuss Optical Interconnects at OFC/NFOEC 2010

A presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in San Diego on March 24 will examine the technologies that will emerge in the next three to four years to power warehouse-scale computing data centers, upon which companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and many more are increasingly relying.

12 Mar 2010

PartTec Signs Agreement to Manufacture and Distribute DOE's Neutron Detector System

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

12 Mar 2010

Electrochemical Imaging Microscopy Improves TNT Trace Detection Process

Arizona State Univeristy scientist N.J. Tao and his colleagues at the Biodesign Institute have hit on a new, versatile method to significantly improve the detection of trace chemicals important in such areas as national security, human health and the environment.

12 Mar 2010

TIRF Imaging Helps Scientists to Study Onset and Progression of Cancer

Conventional biological wisdom holds that living cells interact with their environment through an elaborate network of chemical signals. As a result many therapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases in which cell behavior goes awry focus on drugs that block or disrupt harmful chemical signals.

12 Mar 2010

LIDAR Supports OSIRIS-REx Mission to Study Birth of Solar System

Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday.

12 Mar 2010

Insight on the Future of Green Lighting

While economic crisis increases strain across the globe, the European lighting market gladly welcomes the EU drive, new legislation and public awareness for greater energy efficiency.

12 Mar 2010

Lockheed Martin to Build GeoEye-2 High resolution Earth Imaging Satellite

GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today it selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Md., NYSE: LMT) to build GeoEye-2, the Company's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite system.

12 Mar 2010

Lumerical Offer Nanophotonics Design Software for Mac's

Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of MODE Solutions Release 4.0. Release 4.0 of MODE Solutions continues to build on the flexible technology of earlier releases to model arbitrary-geometry waveguiding components of scientific and industrial interest by incorporating Conformal Mesh Technology to more accurately describe the interface between different materials.

12 Mar 2010

Using Graphene in OLEDs will Reduce Production Costs

Researchers at Stanford University have successfully developed a brand new concept of organic lighting-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with a few nanometers of graphene as transparent conductor.

12 Mar 2010

LIGHTING – Art and Science Magazine to Feature PureSpectrum Profile

PureSpectrum (OTBB: PSRU) will be featured in the April edition of LIGHTING – Art and Science for International Designers Magazine, a leading lighting publication which will be distributed to the attendees of Light+Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany from April 11-16 and the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition from June 9-12 in Guangzhou, China.

11 Mar 2010