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Products Recognized by Illuminating Engineering Society

LED*Waves, a world-leading manufacturer of high-end LED lights, today announced the company's PAR30 14-Watt, PAR20 8-Watt and MR-16 5-Watt LED lights have been recognized by Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) as unique and significant advancements to the art of science and lighting.

19 Jan 2009

Report Examines Non-Silicon Thin-Film Technology within the Solar Photovoltaic Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "The Future of Non-Silicon Thin-Film Technology - A Cost Perspective" to their offering.

19 Jan 2009

TUI and Lighting Manufacturer Cooperating to Reduce Energy Consumption in Hotels

Germany's leading travel company TUI and lighting manufacturer OSRAM are cooperating to reduce energy consumption in hotels. The 250 TUI partner hotels on the Balearic Island of Mallorca have the opportunity to easily purchase energy-saving lamps from OSRAM.

18 Jan 2009

SMI Offers ZnO Deposition Development Services for Transparent Contact Work as used with LEDs

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) announces today that it has opened its application lab facilities for the MOCVD growth of ZnO based films for transparent contact work as used with LEDs and photovoltaics, as well as ZnO films for transparent and power transistors.

18 Jan 2009

Designed To Provide Cataract Patients High-Quality Near And Distance Vision In A Range Of Light Conditions

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. (AMO) (NYSE:EYE), the global leader in advanced refractive technologies for eye care professionals and patients, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the TECNIS® Multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract patients.

16 Jan 2009

First Step in Building Optical Computers with Frequencies 100,000 Times Greater than Current Microprocessors

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research team led by Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.

16 Jan 2009

Strasbourg Equipped with One of the Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

OpticsPlanet Announces First Annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award Winners

OpticsPlanet, Inc., the leading optics retailer and a prominent information resource, has announced its first annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award winners. After a full year of monitoring, selling, and supporting well over 100,000 items, it has named the companies and products that will be presented with an OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award.

16 Jan 2009

Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Device

Simulation of the electric field surrounding a single MWCNT in vacuum. Dr Tim Wilkinson from the Cambridge University Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough. He has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.

16 Jan 2009

FUJIFILM Acquires Russian Distributor of its Medical and Imaging Products

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has acquired, through its European local corporation, FUJIFILM Europe GmbH (President Shigehiro Nakajima), all shares in "FUJIFILM-RU" (herefater, Fujifilm Russia), a Russian independent distributor of its medical and imaging products, from Marubeni Corporation.

15 Jan 2009

Leading Jewelry Retailer Selects Lightscape Technologies for Retail Lighting Projects in China and HK

Lightscape Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: LTSC), an operator of outdoor LED billboards and provider of LED solutions, announced today that a leading jewelry retailer in mainland China and Hong Kong, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co. Ltd, has appointed Lightscape to undertake several lighting projects for its retail stores in China and Hong Kong.

15 Jan 2009

Cree Licenses GaN Substrate Technology to MCC

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that it has entered into an exclusive patent license agreement, subject to some exceptions, with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC). Under the agreement, MCC has been given the right to manufacture and sell freestanding GaN substrates and the right to enter into similarly-scoped sublicenses, subject to certain conditions.

15 Jan 2009

New Insights into the Way Molecules Absorb and Move Energy

Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics.

15 Jan 2009

Engineers Produce New Type of Cloaking Device

A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University engineers has produced a new type of cloaking device, which is significantly more sophisticated at cloaking in a broad range of frequencies.

15 Jan 2009

Industry’s First 4-Amp, Single-Chip Driver for Supercapacitor-Based LED Camera Flash Applications

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has introduced the industry's first 4-amp supercapacitor LED flash driver. The new CAT3224 addresses the emerging requirements for true high-intensity LED flash capability in high megapixel camera phones and standalone camera applications.

14 Jan 2009