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Picosun Plays Part in New World X-Ray Microscopy Record

Groundbreaking work by scientists from Switzerland, Finland and Germany has lead to a new world record in X-ray microscopy. For the first time ever, features below 10 nanometres (nm) in width were resolved.

30 Sep 2009

Mobius Photonics Laser System Used in STED Microscopy Experiments at Max-Planck Institute

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), announces that its G1+ Laser System has been used in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany).

30 Sep 2009

Resolve Optics to Supplied Video Teleconferencing Companies Wide Angle Zoom Lens Adapter

Resolve Optics Ltd. has announced that it has received a major order, to be supplied to one of the world's leading video teleconferencing companies, for its high performance 287-Series Wide Angle Zoom Lens Adapter. The new order of 250 units is five times the previous order.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 29 Sep 2009

Latest Optical and Laser Technology Showcased at Frontiers in Optics 2009

From scopes that help premature babies breathe to techniques for imaging live neurons and beating hearts as they develop, the latest optical and laser technology being deployed in medicine and the biosciences will be on display at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), which takes place Oct. 11-15 at the Fairmont San Jose Hotel and the Sainte Claire Hotel in San Jose, Calif.

29 Sep 2009

Perfect Image Without Metamaterials

Since 2000, John Pendry's work on metamaterials has been at the van guard of efforts to create a perfect image – images with perfect resolution that can stem from light being moved in odd directions to create, among other tricks of the light, the illusion of invisibility.

29 Sep 2009

Philips Lumileds Opens Office in Shanghai

Philips Lumileds announced today that it has opened a new office in Shanghai that is being staffed with an applications team and market specialists to support the growing number of companies in China developing solid-state lighting solutions.

28 Sep 2009

Volkswagen's One-Litre Car Shines with OSRAM LED Systems

OSRAM’s LED technology contributes to the energy efficiency of Volkswagen’s L1 concept car presented at the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA). The vehicle, which according to Volkswagen can go into production in 2013, has headlights that are equipped with new OSRAM Joule JFL2 LED systems and matching reflectors.

28 Sep 2009

OnChip Introduces Aluminium Nitride Submount for High Power LED

A global leader in Integrated Passive Devices (IPD), OnChip announced the ability to provide Silicon and Ceramic Carriers or Submounts for HB LED (High Brightness Light Emitting Diode) manufacturers.

27 Sep 2009

NSF Funds State's First Imaging System for UAB Microscale Research Lab

The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.

25 Sep 2009

Coherent Introduces New MATRIX Diode Pumped Solid State Laser

The new MATRIX™ 532-8-100 from Coherent is a Q-switched, diode pumped, solid state laser designed to deliver the best cost to performance ratio for demanding micromachining tasks in solar, semiconductor and medical device manufacturing.

25 Sep 2009

OceanLED Unveils Innovative Lighting System for Yachts

With the launch of its latest innovation, leading underwater lighting manufacturer OceanLED has brought yachting's above-water world out of the dark and into the LIET(TM) -- the company's revolutionary new interior/exterior product range that makes 100-percent LED lighting for yachts a beautiful reality.

24 Sep 2009

Navitar Celebrates Twenty Five Years of Manufacturing High Magnification Video Microscope Lenses

Navitar Inc., a manufacturer of precision optical and opto-electronic systems, welcomes their twenty-fifth anniversary of manufacturing high magnification video microscope lenses.

From Navitar Inc. 24 Sep 2009

New Photovoltaic Inverter Family for Professional Solar Plants

Siemens is set to substantially extend its share in the PV (photovoltaics) inverter market. A current IMS Research study has shown that the PV plant market is expected to grow by at least 30 per cent annually until 2013, with the expectation that the growth rate will be disproportionately high in the commercial and power plant segment.

22 Sep 2009

Oerlikon Achieves New Stabilized Record Efficiency Level

Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, today announced that it has achieved a new stabilized record efficiency level for amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction PV cells.

22 Sep 2009

Albeo Solid-State Lighting Now Available Through Grainger

Albeo Technologies Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of LED lighting systems, announced today customers will now be able to purchase their award winning C-Series solid-state lighting systems through Grainger

21 Sep 2009