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World’s First Truly Usable Solid State LED MR-16

Synergy, by USHIO, is the world's most efficient, longest life MR-16 lamp ever manufactured. Synergy is the ultimate combination of proprietary LED packaging technology, a patented optical system, premium thermal management and a highly efficient electronic design. Now that's Synergy, the USHIO way!

5 Jun 2008

Model Predicts Price Decline for LED Backlights will be Steep

But costs remain an issue in the adoption of LED backlights for larger-sized LCDs. Using a new cost model tool developed by Insight Media and validated by industry experts, the model finds that the price decline for LED backlights will be steep, allowing a rapid changeover to begin around 2011.

5 Jun 2008

Making MicroTouch DST the Preferred Touch Technology for Large-Screen Displays

3M Touch Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3M and a leading innovator and manufacturer of touch technology, today announces that Bi-Search International (BSI), a leading LG Displays solutions provider and OEM display component supplier, will offer interactive displays integrated with 3M MicroTouch"! DST touch systems in screen sizes ranging from 32 to 46 .

5 Jun 2008

NIH Conduct Tests on Green Fiber Laser in Flow Cytometry Applications

Zecotek Photonics Inc. is pleased to announce that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH), recently conducted tests on its proprietary Green Fiber Laser (GFL-550) in flow cytometry applications.

5 Jun 2008

9point4 to Visualize Previously Inaccessible Structures of the Brain

The world's largest magnet for imaging in brain research arrived today at the Jülich Research Center. Once installed, it will have a field strength of 9.4 Tesla (T), which is almost 200,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field.

5 Jun 2008

AMS Technologies Announces Availability of Solid State UV Lasers

Diode-pumped frequency-multiplied solid state UV lasers of the US manufacturer DPSS Lasers Inc. are available from AMS Technologies.

5 Jun 2008

Using Light to Destroy Cancer

When Sammie Bush mentioned to his doctor that he sometimes felt something in the back of his throat, he didn't expect to learn that he had cancer or that he would be the first patient at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago to undergo photodynamic therapy -- a new procedure that uses light to destroy cancer.

4 Jun 2008

An Innovative Recipe for Giant Telescope Mirrors on the Moon

Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.

4 Jun 2008

Solid-State Lighting to Replace Incandescent and Fluorescent Lighting

Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara's Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

4 Jun 2008

Halving the Cost of Traditional Solar Panels

HP and Xtreme Energetics (XE), a solar energy system developer based in Livermore, Calif., today announced they have entered into an agreement for the development of a solar energy system designed to generate electricity at twice the efficiency and half the cost of traditional solar panels.

4 Jun 2008

New Innovations and Improvements in How Solar Panels are Manufactured

Reuters is reporting on production and efficiency developments in solar cell manufacturing from Evergreen Solar.

4 Jun 2008

Advanced Technology Drives Ongoing Live-Cell Research

Nikon Instruments Inc. and Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine announced the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center, establishing a partnership that brings improved research capabilities to Northwestern, while providing critical feedback for Nikon product development.

4 Jun 2008

VIASPACE Enters into Distribution Agreements for its Laser Based Relative Humidity Instrument

VIASPACE Inc., a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, announced today that it has entered into distribution agreements for its laser based HS-1000 VIASENSOR relative humidity instrument with WonATech of Korea. WonATech has already purchased their initial unit.

4 Jun 2008

DuPont Dry Film Photoresists Address Productivity and Environmental Challenges

DuPont Advanced Packaging Lithography, part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, has fully commercialized DuPont"! WBR 2000 Series dry film photoresist material for advanced semiconductor packaging applications, including electroplated solder, photostencil and copper pillar bumping.

4 Jun 2008

Physicians Say Sedationless Transnasal Endoscopy is Now Practical

Vision-Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has launched to the global gastroenterology market its new video-based flexible esophagoscope at the Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference in San Diego, California.

4 Jun 2008