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Cree CEO Discusses Advantages of LED Lighting with President Obama

Today, Chuck Swoboda, chairman and chief executive officer of Cree (Nasdaq:CREE) joined President Obama at the White House to discuss the latest developments in energy-efficient technologies. Cree, based in Durham, North Carolina, is a market-leading manufacturer of LED (light-emitting diode) products.

2 Jul 2009

GE's Immersion LED Display Case Lighting Delivers Sparkle

Retailers and display case manufacturers have the power to add sparkle to merchandise with GE Consumer + Industrial,s award-winning, energy-efficient Immersion® LED Display Case Lighting.

2 Jul 2009

Compound Restores Balance in Eye with One Treatment

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States.

2 Jul 2009

Revolution In Lighting for the Home and Office

New developments in a substance which emits brilliant light could lead to a revolution in lighting for the home and office in five years, claims a leading UK materials scientist, Professor Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University.

2 Jul 2009

Zecotek Photonics Green Fiber Laser Selected by Russian Academy of Sciences

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its proprietary Green Fiber Laser GFL 550 has been selected by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) as the main laser source for Raman spectrometers in solid-state research and for confocal microscopy in biomedical (DNA) research.

2 Jul 2009

Working Towards an Optical Integrated Circuit

ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer.

2 Jul 2009

Program Focuses on Development Of Low-Power, Direct-View Flexible OLED Displays for use In Airplane Cockpits

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that the company has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Air Force Research Laboratory.

1 Jul 2009

AIST-NT Presents Magicscan Technology, A Set of Feedback and Scanning Process Control Algorithms

AIST-NT presents the MagicScan technology which is the set of feedback and scanning process control algorithms. These algorithms allow eliminating different dynamical errors such as overshooting, ringing and phase lag.

1 Jul 2009

Cambridge Professor Wins IOP Award For Outstanding Contributions To Physics

Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the prestigious Institute of Physics (IOP)' Business and Innovation Medal today Wednesday 1 July for outstanding contributions to physics in an industrial or commercial context.

1 Jul 2009

The Ultimate In Ultra High-Speed Imaging Performance

The SIM02 framing camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. offers the ultimate in ultra high-speed imaging performance.

1 Jul 2009

EMCCD Camera Allows Researchers to Analyse Individual Metal Nanoparticles at Rates of 100 Per Second or Faster

Using an Andor Technology Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera in combination with an imaging spectrograph and a sheath flow cuvette, researchers at the La Jolla Bioengineering Institute in California, have been able to analyse individual metal nanoparticles at rates of 100 per second or faster.

1 Jul 2009

Coherent Expands its Family of Matrix Lasers

Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has expanded its family of MATRIX™ lasers with a new ultraviolet model optimized to produce 1.5 Watts at a high repetition rate of 70 kHz, in order to support high-throughput applications.

1 Jul 2009

IOP Announces 2009 Award Winners

Successful business applications such as drug screening technologies, flat-panel displays and solar-cell designs are amongst the achievements in physics recognised by the Institute of Physics' (IOP) 2009 awards, announced today (Wednesday, 1 July), along with leading research in a wide range of fields from astronomy to optical physics, and excellence in engaging the general public with physics.

1 Jul 2009

LEDs Go Greener, Save Power With Flexible, Efficient ICs

Micrel Inc., (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today rolled out the MIC3230/31/32, a new family of dedicated high brightness LED drivers.

30 Jun 2009

World's Fastest Single Port Re-Configurable Linear Image Sensors

Panavision Imaging LLC, a pioneering innovator and developer of high performance CMOS image sensors, and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq:TSEM) (TASE:TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced production of Panavision’s family of DLIS-2K re-configurable line scan CMOS image sensors.

30 Jun 2009