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Philips Lumec Answers Call for Energy Conservation with New Led-Based Roadway Light

After years of R+D, Philips Lumec, in line with its environmentally responsible mission, unveiled its newest product, the RoadStar™, a state-of-the-art LED luminaire designed specifically for large area, street, and roadway lighting applications.

11 Sep 2009

Nikon Develops New High Zoom Stereomicroscope

The SMZ745T trinocular stereomicroscope is a strong new addition to the Nikon stereo zoom microscope range. By optimising the design of the Greenough optical system, Nikon has realised an impressive 7.5x zoom, as well as incorporating a convenient optical path switch and built in camera port to simplify digital imaging.

10 Sep 2009

JEOL TEM Specialist to Serve as Visiting Scientist at Lehigh University

With just the right touch for fine tuning the optics of ultrahigh resolution microscopes, JEOL Applications Specialist Dr. Toshi Aoki is helping customers optimize the powerful imaging and analysis capabilities of their JEOL field emission TEMs.

10 Sep 2009

Gunning for Free Electrons

The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are collaborating to help define the most critical new technologies for the next generation of free electron lasers (FELs).

10 Sep 2009

Researchers Discover New Way of Storing and "Echoing" Pulses of Light

A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.

9 Sep 2009

Light at the Speed of a Bicycle and Much More

The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving that we can manipulate light to some ingenious and hugely lucrative ends.

9 Sep 2009

Plextronics and Novaled to Collaborate on Development of Organic Lighting Technology

Novaled AG, a leader in energy saving and long living OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes), and Plextronics, Inc., an international company that specializes in conductive organic inks for printed lighting, solar and other electronics, announced today that they have agreed to jointly develop doped and solution processed organic materials for OLED applications.

8 Sep 2009

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp. to Enter Integrated Optical Biosensor System (IOBS) Market

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp. (Pink Sheets: BMGP), a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and malaria detection, today announced its entry into the Integrated Optical Biosensor System (IOBS) market.

8 Sep 2009

First Product Released by New Optical Equipment Manufacturer

Zemetrics, an optical metrology product company founded last year to provide new concept surface metrology systems, has brought its first system, ZeMapper, to the precision engineering and R and D market.

7 Sep 2009

OneChip Photonics Delivers New Family of High-Performance, Low-Cost Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based EPON Transceivers

At The 11th China International OPTO ELECTRONIC Expo (CIOE 2009), OneChip Photonics today announced its new family of high-performance, low-cost Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) transceivers.

6 Sep 2009

Patterning Photonic Crystal Structures Help Boost Effieciency

Currently there is a tremendous incentive to increase the efficiency of LEDs as they continue to find application in more and more areas such as consumer products, residential and consumer lighting and automotive industry.

4 Sep 2009

GLO AB closes SEK 82M series B investment round

Lund (Sweden) based nanowire semiconductor LED developer GLO AB today announced the closing of an SEK 82 million Series B investment round (approximately USD 11.6 million).

3 Sep 2009

Scientists Cool Gas by Laser Bombardment

In their experiment the Bonn University scientists tested a completely new principle of cooling. For this, they used the property that atoms can be stimulated by light. In this process an electron changes from its orbit around the atom's nucleus to an orbit that is further away.

3 Sep 2009

$Collagen Structure Revealed for the First Time by X-ray Diffraction Patterns$

Collagen Structure Revealed for the First Time by X-ray Diffraction Patterns

This development opens doors to better understanding of living tissues like skin and bones, as well as the bio-mineralization processes which turn flexible collagen into semi-flexible cartilage and eventually into rigid bones.

2 Sep 2009

Industry Leaders in OLED Technology Gather at Organic Semiconductor Conference 09

Over the past 12 months there has been progress towards the commercialisation of OLED lighting technology. All the major lighting companies such as Philips Lighting, Osram, GE, Panasonic and Thorn Lighting are actively d...

2 Sep 2009