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Intraocular Lenses Market to Reach $5.0 billion by 2015

Global intraocular lenses market is characterized by ongoing innovations such as presbyopic IOLs, phakic IOLs and aspheric optical IOLs. Additionally, marketing campaigns by leading companies and enhanced training of physicians to implant advanced IOLs are fueling further growth in the market. Intraocular lenses are used primarily in cataract and refractive surgeries as artificial synthetic replacements to the eye's natural lens.

23 Oct 2008

Largest Market for Optical Coatings Worth Estimated US$2.81 Billion in 2008

Thanks to continuous innovations, optical coatings industry is driving new markets and business opportunities with its progressive transformation. The coatings are utilized in various sectors including environmental, chemical, and abrasion resistance; EMI shielding; climate control; biological protection; and high and low temperature operation, in addition to applications in optical fibers and filters.

23 Oct 2008

Global Market for Microscopes is Projected to Reach $3.3 Billion by 2012

United States, Japan and Asia-Pacific collectively command over 72% of the world microscopes market as stated by the recent report published by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing market for microscopes at a CAGR of 11.2% over the 2011-2015 period. The rapid pace of industrialization in developing countries such as India, China, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea, is expected to boost global demand for microscopes in the upcoming years. Developing markets are additionally emerging into hot-spots for production activities with manufacturers increasingly relocating production activities from the saturating Western Europe and North America markets to Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific, in an attempt to cut costs.

From Veeco 23 Oct 2008

New Telescope Helps Solve the Bottleneck of Spectral Observation in Astronomy

How has the universe been formed and evolved? What about the Milky Way consisting of tens of billions of stars? These questions have kept people wondering in the whole history of human civilization.

22 Oct 2008

Web-Based EDA Tools Simplify and Speed Development of SSL General Lighting Solutions

Philips Lumileds and Future Lighting Solutions have introduced the first comprehensive suite of online Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools designed to speed the prototyping and development of solid-state lighting solutions for general lighting applications such as task lamps, recessed downlights, outdoor lighting and shop lighting.

22 Oct 2008

White LED Driver for Automotive Display Backlighting Applications

ROHM Electronics announces the availability of the BD8113EFV-E2, a white LED driver IC designed to provide constant current drive for white LED backlights in medium- to large-format automotive TFT-LCD displays. This dual-channel driver is capable of up to 150mA constant current per channel with current-mode buck/boost DC/DC control, ensuring constant display brightness, even with unstable battery input voltages over the entire automotive temperature range.

22 Oct 2008

OptoCooler HV Designed Specifically for the Optoelectronics and Telecommunications Industry

Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced the availability of the OptoCooler HV series, a new class of RoHS-compliant high voltage and high heat pumping thermoelectric coolers that are optimized for standard circuitry and power requirements. The first module in the series, the OptoCooler HV14, is the latest product in Nextreme's OptoCooler(TM) family of thermoelectric coolers designed specifically for the optoelectronics and telecommunications industry.

22 Oct 2008

New Radiation-hardened Detectors Provide High-Speed Real-time Industrial Inspection

PerkinElmer Optoelectronics, a global technology leader in digital imaging, specialty lighting and optical detection technologies, today announced it will showcase its new high-speed, high-throughput, digital x-ray detectors at the 17th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing (WCNDT) at the Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China.

22 Oct 2008

Fixture Makers Picking GE's Vio High-Power White LED

Fewer than 12 months after the introduction of GE's exclusive Vio(TM) High-Power White LED, five lighting fixture manufacturers are marketing and selling commercial and residential fixtures that incorporate the violet-based, chip-on-board LED package from Lumination, LLC, GE Consumer + Industrial's LED business.

22 Oct 2008

New Way of Creating Computer Chips that Could Revitalize Optical Lithography

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.

22 Oct 2008

Researchs Developed Method of 3D Optical Imaging of Liquid Crystals

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques. A research paper detailing the team's findings appeared in the advanced online publication of Nature Physics.

22 Oct 2008

InGaAs Light Emitters Grown Using Advanced HVPE Processing Technology

TDI, an Oxford Instruments company, has recently advanced the Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) technology to the growth of InGaN. HVPE is best known for its capability to grow low defect, crack free, high quality quasi bulk GaN and AlN materials at a significantly high growth rate of up to 100 µm/hour.

22 Oct 2008

LED Engineering Kit Provides a Means of Gaining Practical Knowledge

The LED Engineering Kit, which OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is now offering for sale on the LED Light for You (LLFY) platform, provides a means of gaining practical knowledge of LED lighting. This kit is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to test LEDs, various accessories and applications.

22 Oct 2008

du to Deploy Corning ULL Optical Fiber as Foundation of Pan-Emirates High-Capacity Network

Corning Incorporated announced today that du, the United Arab Emirates's (UAE) new integrated telecommunications service provider, will deploy Corning® SMF-28® ULL optical fiber as the foundation of its Pan-Emirates, high-capacity network. du is the first telecom operator in the Middle East to deploy this sophisticated fiber.

22 Oct 2008

Providing Photomask Manufacturers Flexibility of Optimizing Writing Speed and Resolution

Micronic Laser Systems AB, a leading global supplier of laser pattern generators for photomasks, today introduced the FPS5300, a pattern generator for producing the large area photomasks needed in the expanding field of advanced packaging as well as other electronic applications.

22 Oct 2008