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Compact PLCC-4 Power LED Series Now Includes Cool White and Warm White

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the addition of new brighter cool white and warm white colors to its series of super half-watt (0.5W) power PLCC-4 surface-mount (SMT) light emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in automotive and electronic sign applications.

17 Nov 2008

Research and Markets Announces Addition of OLED Materials Markets Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "OLED Marterials Markets - 2008" report to their offering.

17 Nov 2008

NEC Successfully Developed New 12.1-inch Amorphous-Silicon TFT Color LCD Module

NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today announced the successful development of a new 12.1-inch (31 centimeters diagonal) amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) color liquid crystal display (LCD) module with super video graphics array (SVGA) resolution that enables naked-eye viewing of stereoscopic images.

17 Nov 2008

Servidyne to Complete Cost-Saving Lighting Retrofits at Five Prisons in the Southeast

SERVIDYNE, INC. (Nasdaq: SERV), a building performance efficiency and real estate company, announced today that it has entered into a contract for turnkey lighting retrofits at five prisons in the Southeast, which is expected to generate contract revenues of approximately $1.2 million.

17 Nov 2008

New Optical Imaging Technique Gives Detailed Look at the Interior of Human Coronary Arteries

For the first time researchers are getting a detailed look at the interior of human coronary arteries, using an optical imaging technique developed at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

17 Nov 2008

First Metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network Ready for Deployment by 2010

Researchers from the Department of Languages and Systems and Software Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's School of Computing have developed a prototype metropolitan quantum key distribution network that will be ready for deployment by Telefónica on any Spanish urban telecommunications network by 2010. T

17 Nov 2008

DOCOMO Capital Invests in MEMS Camera Development for Major Handset Customers

Siimpel Corporation, a leading supplier of optical micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) based solutions for the mobile market, announced today that it has completed an investment round in support of its groundbreaking MEMS technology and product development for mobile camera applications.

17 Nov 2008

STFC Daresbury Laboratory's ALICE Accelerates to 4 Million Volt Milestone

A major milestone has been achieved in the completion of the UK's next-generation particle accelerator, ALICE, which is set to produce an intense beam of light that will revolutionise the way in which accelerator based light source research facilities will be designed in the future.

17 Nov 2008

Findings Represent Important Advances in Both Biology and Imaging Technology

The bacterial cell wall that is the target of potent antibiotics such as penicillin is actually made up of a thin single layer of carbohydrate chains, linked together by peptides, which wrap around the bacterium like a belt around a person, according to research conducted by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

17 Nov 2008

Report Examines Thin-Film, Organic and Printable Photovoltaics from 2007-2015

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Thin-Film, Organic and Printable Photovoltaics: 2007-2015" report to their offering.

17 Nov 2008

New Research into Drug Delivery to Treat Eye Disease

Researchers are investigating microneedles, nanoparticles and polymer carriers as potential new techniques to combat the leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in the United States, according to a report from the Third Annual ARVO/Pfizer Ophthalmics Research Institute Conference.

17 Nov 2008

Obsidian Strategics Announces Partnership to Offer First 100G/bits DWDM InfiniBand Network Link

Obsidian Strategics(TM), the leader in InfiniBand range extension through its Longbow(TM) family of products, and ADVA Optical Networking, a leading provider of Optical+Ethernet solutions for data, storage, voice and video services, today announced a partnership that would bring the first-ever 100G/bits DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) InfiniBand link to the market.

17 Nov 2008

New Approach to Calibrating Quantum Mechanical Measurement has been Developed by Scientists

A new approach to calibrating quantum mechanical measurement has been developed with particular applications in optics and super-secure quantum communication.

17 Nov 2008

Study Shows Novel Light Device Detects Cancerous Lesions From Normal Tissue

Researchers report promising results for the viability of a portable, handheld device using a specialized light technique that may enhance the differential diagnosis of non-melanoma skin cancers, inflamed scar tissue and normal skin in vivo. Recently published in "Lasers in Surgery and Medicine" (August 2008 issue), the peer-reviewed professional journal of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, the retrospective study discussed the advantages of using Raman microspectroscopy to examine and classify pathologic skin cells.

17 Nov 2008

LDK Solar Signs Supply Agreement with BP Solar International

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar"; NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a three-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to BP Solar International, Inc.

15 Nov 2008