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Next Generation of Outdoor Area Lighting is Here with GE Evolve LED Series Area Light

GE's new area light combines the latest in LED system electronics, thermal management, mechanical and optical design to make the advantages of LED lighting a practical reality in parking lots and general lighting applications.

14 Jul 2009

Domestic Source of Aide Solar Panels and Low-Temp LED Panjit Lighting Provides Quick Options for Outdoor Illumination

Aide Solar, a large-scale producer of photovoltaic modules and a subsidiary of The Panjit Group, a broad-based manufacturer of leading-edge technologies headquartered in Taiwan, today announced a solar-powered outdoor lighting solution that features maximum brightness and design flexibility with superior energy efficiency.

14 Jul 2009

Sunovia Energy Launches New Line of Evolucia Brand LED Cobra Head Products

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SUNV) announced today that it has launched the first in a new line of EvoLucia(TM) brand LED cobra head products that drastically reduce both energy consumption and carbon emissions, and also lasts up to three times longer than traditional HID cobra head style lighting fixtures that are installed along roadways today.

14 Jul 2009

Michelson Diagnostics Delivers EX1301 OCT Microscope to its First US Customer

Michelson Diagnostics Limited (MDL), the UK manufacturer of Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners, is pleased to announce delivery of a unit to its first US customer. The EX1301 OCT Microscope is being used by the Center for Pharmacogenomics, Washington University in St. Louis, for cardiology research studying the dynamics of fruit fly hearts.

14 Jul 2009

Advanced Technologies and Global Market for Nanophotonics

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanophotonics- Advanced Technologies and Global Market (2009 - 2014)" report to their offering.

13 Jul 2009

Researchers Discover "Repulsive" Light Force that can be Used to Control Components on Silicon Microchips

A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity.

13 Jul 2009

Waste Material from Discarded Televisions could be Recycled and Used in Medicine

Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York.

13 Jul 2009

Tower to Manufacture 3PEAKIC's Energy Saving LED Driver ICs

3PEAKIC Microelectronics Inc., a provider of high-end analog and mixed-signal electronic products, and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq:TSEM)(TASE:TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced Tower will manufacture 3PEAKIC's energy saving light emitting diode (LED) driver ICs used for backlight LED panels in handheld devices such as cell phones, PDAs and personal navigation devices (PNDs).

13 Jul 2009

SES and Tessera Solar Unveils SunCatchers

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010.

10 Jul 2009

Taking Parking Deck Lighting to New Heights

For areas with low mounting heights, the GE Evolve™ LED Garage Light Fixture from GE Lighting Systems, Inc. provides a long lasting, energy-efficient lighting solution.

9 Jul 2009

Quantum Computers And Tossing A Coin In The Microcosm

Professor Dieter Meschede's group has been working on the development of so-called quantum computers now for many years. With the 'quantum walk' the team has now achieved a further seminal step on this path. 'With the effect we have demonstrated, entirely new algorithms can be implemented,' Artur Widera explains.

9 Jul 2009

Miniaturized Lasers Emit Quantum Light

For more than 100 years it has been known that light comes in small packages, the so-called photons. The discovery of this quantization of the light field has opened up a new field of physics - quantum optics.

9 Jul 2009

HV9961 LED Driver Achieves High Accuracy Without High-Side Current Sensing

Supertex, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUPX) today introduced the HV9961, an average-mode, constant control LED driver integrated circuit (IC) designed to drive LEDs using a buck topology. It is well suited for a variety of solid-state lighting applications.

9 Jul 2009

Primo Star iLED for Training and Routine Fluorescence Microscopy

The Primo Star iLED microscope from Carl Zeiss is now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence applications in training, routine procedures and basic research.

9 Jul 2009

New Line of Energy Efficient LED Parking Garage Fixtures for Existing Buildings

Energy Focus, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFOI), a global leader in energy-efficient lighting technologies, today announced that it is offering a 2, 3, and 4 lamp LED Parking Garage Fixture using its newest LED lighting solution - energy efficient LED Light Tubes.

8 Jul 2009