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Acquisition Expands Navitar's In-House Optical Coating Capabilities

Navitar, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision optical systems, announced today the recent sale of Navitar Coating Labs, located in Newport Beach, California. The decision was made to sell the coatings division based on the success of Navitar's recent acquisition of Special Optics, a Wharton, New Jersey firm, which has quadrupled the company's optical design capabilities and expanded Navitar's in-house optical coating capabilities.

From Navitar Inc. 12 Feb 2009

Palomar Technologies to Exhibit at 2009 Strategies in Light Exhibition and Conference

Palomar Technologies announced today it will return to exhibit at the 2009 Strategies in Light Exhibition and Conference to be held February 18 - 20, 2009 in Santa Clara, California.

12 Feb 2009

Improved Sensor Technology Could Keep Tabs on Terrorists by Remote Control

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.

12 Feb 2009

A. Kruess Optronic Introduces Small Software Revolution for Polarimeter P8000

In time for the Analytica Vietnam, A. Kruess Optronic presents a small software revolution for its flagship polarimeter P8000. The improvements and extensions made are almost a quantum jump in regards to the software.

12 Feb 2009

Carl Zeiss Meditec Launches Visalis 100 for Surgical Treatment of Cataracts

Carl Zeiss Meditec successfully launched its new Visalis 100 system for the surgical treatment of cataracts at the most important ophthalmic meeting in India, the AIOC (All India Ophthalmology Congress) - which took place this year in Jaipur from 5 - 8 February. For the first time, the company chose a growth market for the initial presentation of an innovation.

12 Feb 2009

Thermal Models for Computing LED Designing Available from Osram Opto Semiconductors

Once again, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
is demonstrating its high level of customer support by providing for the first
time thermal models for computing different LED designs as downloads.

12 Feb 2009

Beams From the Sky Map the Ground Underfoot

Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping tools available to geologists and hydrologists have had their limits.

12 Feb 2009

Carmanah Partners With Shine Micro to Combine Solar-Powered Marine Lanterns With AIS Technology

Solar technology provider Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) has partnered with Shine Micro Inc. to add an automatic identification system (AIS) capability to its line of stand-alone solar-powered LED (light emitting diode) marine lanterns.

11 Feb 2009

Worldwide Optical, TEM and SEM Microscope Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts

Research and Markets has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide Optical, Transmission TEM, and Scanning SEM Electron Microscope Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015" to their offering.

11 Feb 2009

Luna Innovations Announces Solar Cell Research Published in Nature Materials

The paper titled "Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices" presents a unique approach to enhance flexible, plastic solar cells, also known as organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, by modifying the acceptor material rather than the donor material.

11 Feb 2009

NanoMarkets Announces Report on Transparent Conductors Including Indium Tin Oxide and ITO Replacement

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced the addition of a new report to its schedule. The report, "Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductor Markets" will be released in Mid-March of 2009.

11 Feb 2009

Plasmonics - A Possible Replacement for Current Computing Approaches

Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are smaller than optically-based systems, according to a Penn State engineer who has developed a plasmonic switch.

11 Feb 2009

Japanese Researchers Develop New Process to Capture Light Energy

Japanese researchers have now developed a new process to capture light energy with nearly equal efficiency. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they "plug" a molecular "wire" directly into a biological photosynthetic system to efficiently conduct the free electrons to a gold electrode.

11 Feb 2009

Breakthrough in the Science of Imaging and Sensing Nanoscale Objects

A collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Stanford University has demonstrated a breakthrough in optical nanoscopy, the science of imaging and sensing of nanoscale objects.

10 Feb 2009

Navitar Announces Release of New 2009 Product Catalog

Navitar, a global leader of imaging optics technology announces the release of its new 2009 product catalog featuring a full line of optical solutions for Machine Vision, Automation, Assembly, Imaging, Measuring, Inspection and Biomedical Sciences.

From Navitar Inc. 10 Feb 2009