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Acquisition Aimed at Expanding Production Scale of Print Heads for LED Printers

OKI Data Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the conclusion of a basic agreement under which OKI Digital Imaging Corporation (ODI) will acquire the land, buildings, and utilities of the former semiconductor front-end process line (Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture) of the Gunma Development Design and Device Division of Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc.

8 Jul 2009

Ultra Life Headlamps Ideal for Anyone Who Spends a Lot of Time Driving

With OSRAM’s Ultra Life headlamps the name says it all. These durable lamps are the ideal solution for anyone who spends a lot of time driving, has dipped lights on during daytime, often travels at night or has vehicles that make lamp replacements difficult.

8 Jul 2009

Michelson Diagnostics Announces the Launch of 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT Scanner

Michelson Diagnostics Limited (MDL), the UK manufacturer of Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners, is pleased to formally announce the launch of its 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT scanner.

8 Jul 2009

Uni-Pixel Displays Awarded Contract to Develop Roll to Roll Conductor Patterning Process

Uni-Pixel, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: UNXL), the developer of a color display technology called Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter ("TMOS"), today announced that it has joined the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

8 Jul 2009

New Security Device That Ensures All Information On Optical Disks is Destroyed and Rendered Useless

Proton Data Security is announcing the new Proton model 1250A, a security device that ensures all information on compact disks (CD, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-ROM) and optical disks (DVD) is destroyed and rendered useless in an environmentally responsible manner.

8 Jul 2009

Collecting Images Like a Camera But Without a Lens

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Large-Area TFT LCD Backlight Optical Film Grew by More than 22 Percent Q/Q

In its newly-released Quarterly Display Optical Film Report, DisplaySearch indicated that Q2'09 demand for large-area TFT LCD backlight optical film grew by more than 22% Q/Q, to 56 million square meters from 45.9 million square meters in Q1'09.

7 Jul 2009

Researchers Design Device Making Objects Invisible Under Certain Light

A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency electromagnetic waves - by making the inside of the magnetic field zero but not altering the exterior field.

7 Jul 2009

Jenoptik Expands Presence in Asia

Jenoptik's Lasers + Material Processing division will in future be represented in the Asian market with a laser application center, in close cooperation with the Korean company Telstar-Hommel Corp.. Byung-Hoon Im, President and CEO of Telstar-Hommel, and Michael Mertin, CEO of JENOPTIK AG, signed the shareholders agreement for JENOPTIK Korea Corp., on July 2nd. Telstar-Hommel will hold 33.3 percent of shares in the company which is headquartered in Pyeongtaek (Gyeonggi Province). With 66.6 percent, JENOPTIK AG will be the majority shareholder.

7 Jul 2009

New Coherent Quasi-CW UV Laser Delivers Highest Power Yet Available

Two new quasi-CW UV lasers from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) deliver the highest power currently available for products of this type.

7 Jul 2009

New Lamps Enable Restaurants and Retailers to Make Significant Strides Toward General Lighting With White LEDs

Two new lamps from GE Consumer + Industrial - a 7-watt GE Energy Smart® LED PAR20 lamp and a 10-watt GE Energy Smart® LED PAR30 lamp - enable restaurants, retailers and other commercial customers to make significant strides toward general lighting with white light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

7 Jul 2009

Light-Absorbing Nanowires Making Better Solar Panels

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

7 Jul 2009

Viable Way to Manipulate a Single "Bit" in a Quantum Processor

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised* a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors.

6 Jul 2009

Grant to Develop Method for Applying AR Coating Technology Directly Onto Assembled Photovoltaic Solar Modules

XeroCoat Inc. has announced that the United States Department of Energy (US DOE) has awarded the company a grant for a $2.96 million project to develop a method for applying its patented anti-reflective (AR) coating technology directly onto assembled photovoltaic (PV) solar modules.

6 Jul 2009

Oxford Instruments Included in FTSE Green Index

The new FTSE Environmental Opportunities Index identifies companies that are leading the way in low carbon related activities. To make the list, companies must have significant involvement in environmental business activities and must generate at least 20% of revenues from environment related markets.

6 Jul 2009