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Report Examines Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets from 2009 to 2016

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced the release of its newest report, "Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets: 2009 - 2016". The report projects that sales of materials for both "pure" organic solar cells (OPV) and hybrid organic/inorganic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), are expected to reach almost $600 million ($US) by 2016.

9 Mar 2009

Sunlight and a Familiar Plastic Make it Possible to Produce Hydrogen from Water

There is a lot of hope invested in hydrogen, but it also presents some problems. It is energy-rich, clean and, as a constituent of water, of almost unlimited availability. However, so far it has been difficult to access it. Scientists at the Max Planck In-stitute of Colloids and Interfaces have now found a simple, low-cost way to produce hydrogen.

9 Mar 2009

Optics Balzers Expands Global Presence

Optics Balzers (SWX:OERL) is forging ahead at a fast pace to expand its international sales network. The company, a leading global pioneer of customized optical components and assemblies, is redefining its market position.

9 Mar 2009

Makrofol LISA Providing Designers with Enormous Scope for Creating Plastic Parts With Very Striking Colored Light Around Edges

Makrofol LISA polycarbonate film from Bayer MaterialScience AG provides designers with enormous scope for creating plastic parts with a highly unusual and very striking colored light around the edges. The transparent film collects incident light, conveys it to the edges and allows it to emerge there, shining brightly.

9 Mar 2009

Carl Zeiss ORION Plus Helium-Ion-Microscope Now Offers Structural and Compositional Analysis

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of optical and particle-beam inspection, analysis and measuring equipment, today introduced a powerful new detector for the ORION® Plus helium-ion-microscope. Called the SPECTRA, the new detector adds structural and compositional analysis capabilities to the sub-nanometer resolution imaging offered by the ORION Plus instrument.

9 Mar 2009

Researcher Opens Up Wide Range of Possibilities from Light Based Computing to Possibility of "Slow Glass"

Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based...

8 Mar 2009

ASU to House One of the World's Most Advanced Electron Microscopes

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.

8 Mar 2009

World's Largest and Highest-Energy Laser System Gears Up for Ignition Experiments

Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where the laser is located, fired the first full system shot to the center of the NIF target chamber.

7 Mar 2009

Top Semiconductor Mfg Chooses Nanovea Profilometer Over Many

Until the Nanovea HS1000 Profilometer, full automation and the unique advantages of white-light axial chromatism technique were features rarely found in a single high scanning speed instrument; a feature the Client requested and only Nanovea could deliver.

6 Mar 2009

Breakthrough Procedure has Potential Applications in Medical Imaging and Biological Sensors

Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical imaging and other areas.

6 Mar 2009

PI Introduces New Hard-Cover Catalog "Piezo Nano Positioning Inspirations 2009"

Nanopositioning + Piezo Technology Specialist PI, has issued the 2009 hard-cover catalog entitled "Piezo Nano Positioning Inspirations 2009".

5 Mar 2009

Scientists Closer To Making Invisibility Cloak A Reality

J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998.

5 Mar 2009

Turning CO2 into Methane Using Sun Light

Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.

5 Mar 2009

Highly Diffuse Reflectance Material Provides Reliable Known Reflectance Values

With the highest diffuse reflectance values of any known substance, Labsphere's Spectralon® Reflectance Standards provide the most accurate calibration for a variety of testing equipment. Spectrophotometers, Densitometers, Integrating Sphere Systems, Optical Equipment, Photographic Equipment, Reflectometers and Remote Sensing Instruments can be calibrated according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) traceable standards.

4 Mar 2009

Carmanah Introduces Solar LED Lighting for Streets and Parking Lots

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) today announced its most powerful solar-powered LED area light to date: the EverGEN™ 1500 lighting system. Designed for street and parking lot lighting applications, the EverGEN 1500 combines the performance of an AC-powered area light with the versatility of an off-grid solar-powered lighting system.

4 Mar 2009