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Pushing More Appealing White Light from Organic Light-Emitting Devices

The latest bright idea in energy-efficient lighting for homes and offices uses big science in nano-small packages to dim the future Edison's light bulb.

15 Jul 2008

LV-DAF Offers Large Focus Range and Fast Tracking Ability

Nikon Instruments Inc. announced its new Dynamic Auto-Focus unit, the LV-DAF, bringing fast, versatile auto-focus to the Eclipse LV semiconductor inspection microscope series and OEM applications. Featuring the newly developed Hybrid Auto-Focus system, the LV-DAF offers a large focus range and fast tracking ability through a combination of slit projection and contrast detection auto focus. The result is a highly-versatile system that can be used for a wide range of imaging techniques.

15 Jul 2008

New Stereoscopic Zoom Microscopes Combining Very Small Size with High Performance

Nikon Instruments Inc. announced its new SMZ-445/460 stereoscopic zoom microscopes, combining a very small size with high performance at a low cost for the Industrial and OEM markets. These microscopes allow observation of a wide range of applications, from routine quality control to semiconductor probing OEM applications.

15 Jul 2008

Highly Affordable Multimedia Kit for Moritex's Popular LightScope Industrial Endoscopes

Moritex has introduced a highly affordable Multimedia kit for its popular LightScope industrial endoscopes that includes everything required to perform wide ranging portable inspection and video documentation tasks.

15 Jul 2008

IPG’s YLR-Series of High Power Lasers to be Used in Door Welding Applications

IPG Photonics Corporation, the world leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, today announced that its German subsidiary, IPG Laser GmbH, has received a major order for multi-kilowatt, continuous wave Ytterbium fiber laser systems totaling 63kW in power from the BMW Group in Munich, Germany.

15 Jul 2008

Performance and Benefits of QPC’s Patented Chip-Based Laser Technology

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-brightness, high-power semiconductor chip-based lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced the company's technical marketing team recently published a technical paper in the prestigious laser industry trade magazine Laser+Photonics.

15 Jul 2008

TWINSCAN XT:1950i Enables World-Leading Sub 40 nm Volume Chip Imaging

ASML Holding NV (ASML) announces today its newest TWINSCANTM XT:1950i lithography system using a 1.35 NA lens – increasing the performance of its immersion lithography systems by 25%. The system offers improved overlay, resolution and throughput, to enable high-volume manufacturing of more powerful 38 nanometer (nm) memory and '32' nm logic semiconductors.

15 Jul 2008

Proven Record in Manufacturing High Precision Telescope Spectrograph Optics

Benefiting from a unique stabilised production environment Optical Surfaces Ltd has developed a reputation for designing and manufacturing high precision telescope spectrograph optics (aspheres, mirrors, prisms, lenses and flats) that would stretch the limits of conventional optical fabrication techniques.

15 Jul 2008

Resolve Optics Develop Innovative High Performance OEM Lenses for Customers

Resolve Optics Ltd. has established an international reputation for custom design and manufacture of optimised single and multiple element lenses, zoom lens and beamsplitters that operate in the Infrared (IR) region (1-14 microns).

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 15 Jul 2008

Digital Camera Gathering Information to Help Fight Wildfires Burning within the State

A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week, gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state. Additional flights are planned for next week.

14 Jul 2008

GOBI-384 Delivers High-Performance Thermal Imaging for Demanding Industrial and Security Applications

XenICs, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solutions from the LWIR to the visible realm, now offers the GOBI-384, an uncooled microbolometer camera covering the LWIR 8 to 14µm.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 14 Jul 2008

Ultra-Bright LED Lighting Systems Offer Rapid Design and Integration Opportunities

Lamina Lighting Incorporated (Lamina), the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced the introduction of a new line of ultra-bright LED lighting systems that offer fixture manufacturers and lighting designers rapid design and integration opportunities.

11 Jul 2008

Producing Solar Substrates using Revolutionary Kerf-Free Wafering Process Technology

Silicon Genesis, a leader in process and technology for engineered substrates announced today that it has successfully produced solar substrates for the PV industry using a revolutionary "kerf-free" wafering process technology developed by SiGen called PolyMax(TM). This introduction represents a significant move for the company into the solar PV wafer production environment, capitalizing on in-house technology and expertise.

11 Jul 2008

Cost Effective Solar Devices Expected on Market Soon

Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that.

10 Jul 2008

Sewing DNA Thread with Lasers, Hooks and Microbobbins

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

10 Jul 2008