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Lamina Opens Product Showroom and Design Studio

Lamina Lighting Incorporated (Lamina), the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced it has opened The Lamina Design Center, a product showroom and design studio at 336 West 37th Street in Manhattan.

3 Jun 2008

Search for Gravitational Waves has Revealed New Information

An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration to be submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters has shown that no more than 4 percent of the energy loss of the pulsar is caused by the emission of gravitational waves.

2 Jun 2008

The First Dye Doped Graphite/Graphene Solar Cell

Photovoltaic Solar Cells Inc today announces that it has created a dye doped Graphite/Graphene only solar cell. This solar cell will be produced using the production tool that the company is building.

2 Jun 2008

Fraunhofer IPMS Achieves Major Milestone in OLED-Based Backlights

Fraunhofer IPMS has achieved a major milestone in OLED-based backlights for autostereoscopic 3D displays. For the first time a 3.5" 3D QVGA display will be presented, that is based on a highly-efficient, patterned and controllable OLED backlight.

2 Jun 2008

Contract has a Total Potential Value of $40.4 Million over Five Years

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to provide the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) with support for submarine periscope, photonic, electro-optic and electromagnetic systems.

2 Jun 2008

KLA-Tencor Corporation Acquires ICOS Vision Systems Corporation

KLA-Tencor Corporation today announced that it has finalized its purchase of the shares of ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV submitted by shareholders into the tender offer. As a result, effective May 30, 2008, KLA-Tencor owns over 96% of the outstanding shares of ICOS.

2 Jun 2008

Q-Factor Results for Norcada's Silicon Nitride Membrane Windows.

Norcada Inc., a MEMS product development company, announced today that reports out of Yale University show successful Q-factor results for Norcada's silicon nitride membrane windows.

2 Jun 2008

Optical Cable Corporation Acquires Leading Supplier of Fiber Optic Products

Optical Cable Corporation announced today that it has acquired Superior Modular Products Incorporated (doing business as SMP Data Communications), a leading supplier of fiber optic and copper connectivity products for the data communications industry. The transaction was consummated on May 30, 2008, and now SMP Data Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Optical Cable Corporation.

2 Jun 2008

New Quantitative AFM Mode for High-Resolution Material Mapping

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced HarmoniXTM, a powerful new atomic force microscope (AFM) technique for high-resolution nanoscale imaging and analysis. Veeco's HarmoniX Nanoscale Material Property Mapping enables AFM users to simultaneously, and in real-time, acquire high-resolution images as well as high-resolution, quantitative material property maps.

From Veeco 2 Jun 2008

AZoCleantech - The 6th Site in the AZoNetwork Portfolio

The 6th site in the AZoNetwork portfolio builds on the success of AZoM.com the A to Z of Materials, AZoNano.com - the A to Z of Nanotechnology and AZoOptics.com - the A to Z of Optics.

1 Jun 2008

Solar Piling Light Offers Boat Owners an Attractive Lighting Solution

American Solar Products announces the introduction of their new solar Piling Light for the marine market. Employing the latest in solar power technology, our solar Piling Light offers marina and boat owners an attractive, cost effective lighting solution for their decorative lighting needs.

1 Jun 2008

SDK Begins Commercial Shipment of AlGaInP Ultrabright Red LED Chip

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has started commercial shipment of aluminum-gallium-indium-phosphide (AlGaInP) ultrabright red LED chips with luminous efficiency of 80 lumen per watt.

31 May 2008

The Next Development in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Infrastructure

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Global - Broadband - FTTx Analysis" to their offering.

30 May 2008

Watching the Product of Nearly 16 Years of Hard Work Blasts into Orbit

When NASA launches its newest space observatory, physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be watching as the product of nearly 16 years of hard work blasts into orbit.

29 May 2008

Highly-Engineered Metamaterial Capable of Absorbing Light

A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it - to a scientific standard of perfection - they report in the latest edition of Physical Review Letters.

29 May 2008