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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Preparing for Takeoff

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These tests ensure the spacecraft is prepared for its mission to collect the highest resolution images and most comprehensive geological data set ever returned from the moon.

5 Aug 2008

A Milestone in Experimental Quantum Mechanics

In a paper published in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature, UCSB physicists Max Hofheinz, John Martinis, and Andrew Cleland documented how they used a superconducting electronic circuit known as a Josephson phase qubit, developed in Martinis's lab, to controllably pump microwave photons, one at a time, into a superconducting microwave resonator.

5 Aug 2008

Federal President Visits Winners of the 2007 German Future Prize

The Federal President of Germany, Horst Köhler, and his wife Eva Luise Köhler, accompanied by Bavarian Minister of State Dr. Beate Merk, today visited the winners of the 2007 German Future Prize. Dr. Klaus Streubel, Dr. Stefan Illek (both of OSRAM) and Dr. Andreas Bräuer (of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering) gave a progress report on
the award-winning project “Light from crystals – light emitting diodes shape our daily lives”.

5 Aug 2008

Solar Cells of the Future May Look Totally Black to the Human Eye

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Borealis MLS System an Ideal Addition to the Spectacular Bird's Nest

PolyBrite International today announced that its Borealis Modular Lighting System (MLS) was installed in the channel letters for the entrance ways for the premiere stadium for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China! The 10' 2" tall letters, A through L will designate each section of the stadium.

4 Aug 2008

Sunovia Energy Acquires Exclusive Rights to LED Lighting Patents

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc., a renewable energy and energy conservation company, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive rights to patents that allow it to expand its existing product offering into the extended-life and security LED lighting markets.

4 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Introduces ORION PLUS Helium Ion Microscope

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 meeting and exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, introduced a new, improved Helium Ion Microscope called the ORION® PLUS.

4 Aug 2008

Third Column Makes NVision 40 Even More Versatile

To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation.

4 Aug 2008

New Class of SEM Centered on Unique GEMINI Technology

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting and Exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT is introducing a new class of SEM: SIGMA. Growing customer demand for ease of use and class leading X-ray and analytical geometry took center stage when the product was developed.

4 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Redesign Vacuum System of LIBRA 120 EFTEM

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting and Exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT is introducing a major upgrade of its LIBRA® 120 Energy Filter Transmission Electron Microscope (EFTEM).

4 Aug 2008

Innolume to Enhance Production Marketing Activities for Quantum Dot Laser Products

Innolume, the leading provider of quantum dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1000 nm to 1320 nm optical spectrum, today announced that it secured a Series C round of financing for €8.6 million. The round was led by S-Group Capital Management Limited (SGCM) with Applied Ventures, LLC joining as a new investor.

4 Aug 2008

Tool Enables Lighting Engineers to Make Tradeoffs Between Performance and Lifetime

Future Lighting Solutions has released the LED Reliability Tool (LRT) at www.futurelightingsolutions.com/LRT, the first interactive online tool that enables lighting designers to truly predict the lifetime of LEDs in their application as a function of junction temperature and current.

4 Aug 2008

Correlative Microscopy Solution Enables Scientists to Acquire High-Res TEM Images of Molecular Entities

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, a leading biochemical research institution, announced today their collaboration on a correlative microscopy solution that enables scientists to quickly and easily acquire high-resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of molecular entities found using optical microscopy techniques.

4 Aug 2008

LED Light to Transform and Energize Lives

iinnLight Technologies, the emerging leader in optimizing light to transform and energize lives, today launched iinnLight Pro(TM), its debut product for the spa industry that enables spas and wellness centers to powerfully contribute to the wellness revolution by delivering the world's first Molecular Massage(TM) while providing a new therapy option to increase profits.

4 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility at Cambridge University

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes. The new facility will make some of Hitachi’s unique instruments, including the S-5500 in-lens SEM, openly accessible to university researchers.

4 Aug 2008