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Speakers Illuminate Paths to R+D Success in Solar Energy, Biophotonics and Solid State Lighting

The modern world is the result of innovations developed under a model that no longer works, and companies that want to progress need to employ a new paradigm of open collaboration, reiterated speakers at the well-received SPIE Photonics Innovation Summit on 6 November in the San Francisco-Silicon Valley area.

15 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss and Visage Imaging to Integrate TRIDELITY’s Autostereoscopic 3D Displays

Norbert Haas, CEO TRIDELITY USA, announced today that the company's Autostereoscopic 3D Displays will be showcased at the Neuroscience 2008 conference in Washington DC, November 15 -19th. Carl Zeiss, the world's leading interactive microscopic and imaging company, as well as Visage Imaging, the makers of the groundbreaking Amira imaging software, have integrated TRIDELITY's interactive, multi-viewer 3D displays with their new microscope imaging and clinical imaging products respectively.

14 Nov 2008

Method Could Improve Sensitivity of Detecting Molecules at Low Concentrations

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that the surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles in a periodic array can have considerably narrower spectral widths than those of isolated metal nanoparticles.

14 Nov 2008

New Facility to Increase KYOCERA's Global Output to 650 Megawatts Per Year by March 2012

Kyocera Corporation today announced plans to build a new large-scale solar cell manufacturing facility. The new plant, located in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, will be the Kyocera Group’s largest manufacturing facility in Japan.

14 Nov 2008

Toward Broad Commercialization of High-Quality, Three-Dimensional Image Holograms

Bayer MaterialScience AG, Bayer MaterialScience LLC and Canadian-based Ultimate Holographic Reproductions Inc. (UHR) announced today that they have entered into a joint development agreement. The goal of this agreement is to advance the broad commercialization of high-quality, true-color holographic images.

13 Nov 2008

GigOptix Signs Purchase Agreement with a North American Investor

GigOptix LLC, a leading provider of electronic engines for the optically connected digital world announces that they have signed a purchase agreement with a North American investor to invest $1M in GigOptix LLC. This funding will immediately follow the Lumera shareholder approval of the GigOptix merger with Lumera Corporation, expected on December 4, 2008.

13 Nov 2008

Hodogaya Agrees Offer Hole Transport Materials for Novaled PIN OLED Structures

Hodogaya Chemical Co., LTD, long experienced specialist and market leader in charge transport materials, and Novaled AG, leader in power efficient and long living Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have agreed to offer hole transport materials for Novaled PIN OLED(TM) structures.

13 Nov 2008

Astronomers Captrue Snapshots of a Multi-Planet Solar System

The new solar system orbits a dusty young star named HR8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. Three planets, roughly 10, 10 and 7 times the mass of Jupiter, orbit the star. The size of the planets decreases with distance from the parent star, much like the giant planets do in our system.

13 Nov 2008

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has Taken First Visible-Light Snapshot of a Planet Circling Another Star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the "Southern Fish."

13 Nov 2008

Researchers Found Way to Steer the Movement of Electrons Using Ultrafast Laser Pulses

Theoretical physicist Uwe Thumm and his colleagues Feng He and Andreas Becker not only work with some of the smallest molecules in the universe, but they now have found a way to control the motion of the molecules' building blocks, electrons and nuclei.

13 Nov 2008