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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

First Observation of Two Resonant Dispersive Waves on Both Sides of the Emitting Soliton

A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at constant speeds). By designing a special fiber with an extremely small waveguiding feature located in the photonic crystal fiber cladding, the researchers were able to bring the theoretical prediction into the experimental demonstration, creating waves on both sides of the pump. This research appears in the current issue of the Optical Society's Optics Letters.

20 Nov 2008

PennWell Launches Photovoltaics World Magazine

PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it will launch Photovoltaics World magazine to address the rapidly growing global photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing industry.

20 Nov 2008

Applied Materials Joins Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University today announced that Applied Materials, Inc., through its Display Business Group-AKT, has become an Associate Member, joining the ranks of other world-class providers of technology, materials and process equipment who are collaborating with the FDC to develop advanced flexible electronic displays.

20 Nov 2008

Multi-Junction Solar Cell Converting 39.7 Percent of the Sun's Energy to Electricity

Scientists of the Commission-financed project FULLSPECTRUM have developed photovoltaic (PV) multi-junction (MJ) solar cells which are able to convert 39.7 Percent of the energy of sun light into electricity. This is the highest percentage ever reached in Europe, according to researchers after their final workshop today in El Escorial, Spain.

20 Nov 2008

4D Microscope Changing the Way We Look at the Atomic Scale

More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scale.

20 Nov 2008