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Novel Accessory Creates 'Two-in-One' Reflection- and Transmission High-Temperature XRD System

Modern materials science demands sophisticated tools to perform investigations in defined environments and under controlled temperature conditions. Non-ambient X-ray diffraction (XRD) is established for a wide range of industrial and research applications.

From PANalytical 24 Nov 2008

New Ways of Squeezing Out Greater Efficiency from Solar Photovoltaic Cells

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

24 Nov 2008

With Holiday Season Approaching, Cornell Environmental Analyst Made an Illuminating Discovery

With the holiday season approaching, a Cornell environmental analyst has made an illuminating discovery: Many Christmas light sets contain such high levels of lead that they exceed limits set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for windowsills or floors.

24 Nov 2008

Using Gyroid Structure to "Self-Assemble" a Low-Cost Photovoltaic Cell

You never know where basic research may lead. For decades materials scientists have been experimenting with a corkscrew-like polymer structure called a gyroid. Now an international team of researchers has shown that the gyroid structure can be used to "self-assemble" a low-cost photovoltaic cell.

24 Nov 2008

Microvision Recognized for development of PicoP for New Automotive Display Applications

Frost + Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, is pleased to present Microvision Inc. (NASDAQ:MVIS) with the 2008 North American Technology Innovation of the Year Award for development of its ultra-miniature laser projection display engine, PicoP(TM), for new automotive display applications.

24 Nov 2008

Paper Thin Advertising Display to Broadcast Anywhere

Recent enhancements to the Electroluminescent panel removes the need for a bulky battery pack, it simplifies and streamlines the manufacturing process and provides the end user with a better, easier to use product. Any surface now has the potential to accommodate a small scale advertising message that can broadcast complex designs both energy-efficiently and continually for over 25,000 hours with very little maintenance.

24 Nov 2008

Scientists Conjured New Idea for Invisibility Cloak

Two physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisibility require exotic materials and would only work at certain colours of light.

23 Nov 2008

Olympus Offers Low Auto-Fluorescence Microscope Immersion Oil with Top Performance

Olympus, a leader in research microcopy worldwide, now offers an important addition to its line of products for advanced fluorescence research imaging. Type-F Immersion Oil is designed to contribute very little background signal and subsequent noise during fluorescence excitation.

21 Nov 2008

Powerful New Software for Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Applications

The Olympus ASW v2.0 Software Suite is designed to maximize performance and ease-of-use for the new line of FluoView® FV1000 confocal and FV1000-MPE multiphoton laser scanning microscope systems.

21 Nov 2008

Unlocking the Secrets of Plasma

University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant form of matter in the universe.

21 Nov 2008

Daylight Solutions Awarded Phase 1 SBIR from DARPA for High Power Mid-Infrared Laser System

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and illumination solutions in the mid-infrared, announced today that the company has been awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This award will be used to advance Daylight's compact, high power ECqcL technology for infrared countermeasures (IRCM).

21 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss Setting New Record Resolution Benchmark for Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopy

Carl Zeiss SMT has set a new record resolution benchmark for scanning electron and ion microscopy - pushing scanning beam technologies beyond its current limits.

21 Nov 2008

OmniVision Technologies Introduces Latest Addition of Low Power Medical Sensor

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independent supplier of CMOS image sensors, today introduced the OV6930, the latest addition to its portfolio of medical image sensors.

21 Nov 2008

JA Solar and BP to Jointly Develop and Market Solar Photovoltaic Products

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO) and BP Alternative Energy Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of BP p.l.c. (NYSE: BP) today announced their intention to jointly develop and market part of their solar photovoltaic product portfolio over the next five years.

20 Nov 2008

NNRI to Fully Fund Research for Inherited Retinal Diseases and Dry AMD

National Neurovision Research Institute (NNRI), and Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leading resolvin therapeutics company, today announced a research collaboration whereby NNRI will fully fund preclinical studies to evaluate the potential of novel resolvin therapeutics for eye diseases of the retina that lack current treatments, specifically genetic retinal degenerative diseases and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

20 Nov 2008