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Revolutionary Non-Contact Optical Depth Sensing Technique Delivers Accurate Height Measurements

Prior to this new advancement any testing would require mechanical surface contact, which was impossible during sample movement, to take in account substrate and machine compliance. Now with the ability to observe the precise depth of the indenter without touch, sample motion is no longer an issue and true depth of the indenter can be directly recorded.

20 Oct 2008

Spire Corp. and Shuttleworth to Provide Components to Complement XsunX TFPV Manufacturing System

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Spire Corporation and Shuttleworth Inc., who will provide components to complement the company's TFPV manufacturing system.

20 Oct 2008

New Sensor to Improve Road Safety

STMicroelectronics, a world leader in the design and manufacture of automotive ICs, today announced its first high-dynamic-range CMOS camera specifically tailored for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market. The new sensor combines the company's world-class expertise in automotive markets together with leading-edge CMOS imaging technology.

20 Oct 2008

Contact Lenses Increase Risk of Infection with Pathogenic Amoebae

Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contact lens cases in Tenerife are contaminated with Acanthamoeba that cannot be killed by normal contact lens solution.

20 Oct 2008

Successful in Action: SESAM from Carl Zeiss in Use for Metals Research

The special SESAM system, a high performance version of the LIBRA® 200 transmission electron microscope series from Carl Zeiss SMT, has been in use at the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) for the past 10 months.

20 Oct 2008

Introducing State-of-the-Art Digital Displays to Buses

In the first deal of this size and scale, Titan Worldwide today announced that it has signed a multi-million dollar deal with Litelogic, the UK-based digital advertising network solutions innovator, to receive and display Bus King size screens on transit authority buses, starting with tests in New York and Chicago.

20 Oct 2008

American Physical Society Award Recognizes Advances in Infrared Spectroscopy

The American Physical Society has awarded a UT Dallas researcher one of the society's highest honors, recognizing Dr. Yves Chabal's development of methods to better understand processes that take place on the silicon surface that is literally the platform for the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry.

20 Oct 2008

Graphin Develops Evaluation Suites of CMOS Image Sensors with MIPI Standard

Graphin Co., Ltd., a rapidly emerging leader for evaluation suites for image sensors, announced today that it has developed the Advanced Board, an advanced evaluation product of CMOS Image Sensors (hereinafter called CIS) supported with the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) standard and will ship them on a commercial basis no later than the end of 2008.

19 Oct 2008

Rockwell Collins Acquires Leading Global Visual Display Supplier

Rockwell Collins, Inc. today announced its intent to acquire SEOS, a leading global supplier of highly realistic visual display solutions for commercial and military full flight simulators. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

19 Oct 2008

High Energy Neutral Atom Imager Captures Evidence of Far-Distant Particle Collisions

A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.

18 Oct 2008

Sensitive Laser Crucial for NASA's Search for Life on Mars

Minuscule traces of cells can be detected in a mineral likely present on Mars, a new study shows. The results, obtained using a technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, could help mission scientists choose Martian surface samples with the most promise for yielding signs of life.

18 Oct 2008

New Catalog from PI Focuses on Specimen Positioning Devices and Microscope Lenses

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

17 Oct 2008

Single Mode Green Laser from Coherent Sets Power Record for Precision Micromachining Applications

The new AVIA(TM) 532-45 from Coherent, Inc. is the most powerful diode-pumped, solid state green laser currently available that delivers diffraction limited output. Specifically, this new laser provides 45W of average power (at 120 kHz) at 532 nm, in a single mode output beam (M2 < 1.3), making it over twice as powerful as the nearest competitive model.

17 Oct 2008

Pro-Lite Announces Release of ProSource 8.0 Light Source Modelling Software

Pro-Lite Technology LLP (Cranfield, England) has announced the release of ProSource 8.0 software from Radiant Imaging. The light source modeling software now delivers an improved user interface and expanded functionality for Radiant Source Model analysis and ray generation.

16 Oct 2008

Astor Center Hosts Top Photomicrographs from Around the World

With the appearance of gracefully swooping beams of light or a colorful array of feathers, a dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) has won the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom took home the top honor with this image, which was magnified 200 times and taken using darkfield and polarized light.

16 Oct 2008