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Report Analyzes The Medical Imaging Market And Examines Major Trends Prevalent In The Sector

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Medical Imaging Market Report: 2009 Edition" report to their offering.

3 Feb 2009

Specialised Imaging Introduces Robustly Designed General Purpose Optical Trigger

Specialised Imaging Ltd. have announced an Optical Trigger that can be used as a general purpose optical detector that detects either a very bright flash of light or a object moving across it field of view.

3 Feb 2009

New Imaging Technology that Produces the Best 3-D Resolution Ever Seen with an Optical Microscope

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope.

2 Feb 2009

New Ford Mustang Boasts the Latest Lighting Technology by OSRAM

Introduced at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the new Ford Mustang boasts the latest lighting technology by OSRAM. The American sports car, which hits the market in 2010, features variable LED interior lighting with OSRAM TOPLED. The JOULE LED system is the basis for the American muscle car’s rear signal lighting and gives the car a modern look as well as added efficiency and security.

2 Feb 2009

ORCA Series Offers Higher Power Efficiency and Greater Luminous Intensity

Bivar, a leading provider of optoelectronics and assembly hardware, today announced the launch of the ORCA series of Super Flux LEDs. A pioneer in LED indication, Bivar's new ORCA product family is an expansion of its high power LEDs designed for use on standard printed circuit boards (PCBs).

2 Feb 2009

QLED Thermal Simulation Software from Future Lighting Wins Innova Award

Future Lighting Solutions announced today that its QLED thermal simulation software for solid-state lighting designers has earned top honors in the Product Development Excellence category of LED Journal's Innova Awards. The results of the competition, designed to recognize LED-related technology breakthroughs, were announced in the publication's January/February 2009 issue.

2 Feb 2009

North Wales Company on Mission to Mars

Denbighshire-based high-tech company Laser Micromachining Limited (LML) is set to play a crucial role in a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Mars after developing a vital component in the next generation of space technology.

2 Feb 2009

Organic Electronic Devices Possible with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Process

Someday, moving a large, flat-screen TV across the country might be as simple as taking it off the wall, rolling it up and sliding it into a study tube. That's the vision of researchers Christopher Ober and George Malliaras at Cornell University, and Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who are fabricating organic semiconducting materials with a little help from supercritical carbon dioxide, or CO2.

2 Feb 2009

Making Supertelescopes Much More Sensitive

Nanotechnologist ir. Chris Lodewijk has succeeded in significantly increasing the sensitivity of the new supertelescopes in Chile. He will receive his PhD on this topic at TU Delft on Monday 2 February.

2 Feb 2009

Andover Announces New Catalogue and Expands Infrared Capabilities

Together with Andover's wide range of custom and semi custom bandpass filters, Andover has expanded their infrared capabilities, and the new catalogue now contains ND filters that function in the 2-14µm range, Infrared substrates (with or without A/R coatings) and a new IR A/R on Germanium that provides high transmission from 2-14µm

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 1 Feb 2009

Pore-free Ceramics Shine New Light on Lasers

To most people, the word "ceramics," refers to opaque clay flower pots or translucent porcelain tea cups. But not all ceramics block or scatter light. Gary L. Messing, distinguished professor of ceramic science and engineering, and his group at Pennsylvania State University, are developing a brand new class of ceramics that are so pure and perfectly transparent, they can be used as a substitute for crystals in solid-state lasers.

31 Jan 2009

Anisotropy Imaging Technique Now Available for LSM 710 Laser Scanning Microscope from Carl Zeiss

The anisotropy imaging technique is now available for the serial equipment of the LSM 710 laser scanning microscope from Carl Zeiss. It supplements the special imaging techniques such as RICS (Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy) and FCS (Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy) already possible with the LSM 710.

31 Jan 2009

Carl Zeiss Installs 1,500th GEMINI SEM at Dresden University of Technology

Carl Zeiss SMT today officially put into service the 1,500th GEMINI®-class scanning electron microscope. The customer is the "Center for Non-Destructive Nano Evaluation nanoeva®" in Dresden, a joint facility of the Electronics Packaging Laboratory (German abbreviation: IAVT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing (IZFP-D) through its Dresden-based department.

30 Jan 2009

Army's Investment in Flexible Display Technology Development Approaches $100 Million

Arizona State University (ASU) today announced that the U.S. Army has committed to sponsor an additional five years of research and development at ASU's Flexible Display Center. The five-year renewal, agreed upon in 2008, is for $50 million and follows initial funding of the center in 2004. Taken together, the two five-year commitments represent a total investment of nearly $100 million in this unique component of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's research portfolio.

29 Jan 2009

Report Examines Materials Markets for CIGS Photovoltaics

There will be setbacks but according to a just-published report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based here, CIGS -- a photovoltaic material technology made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium -- will fulfill its potential as the wonder child of the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) materials business.

29 Jan 2009