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New Type of LED to be Commercialized in the Seasonal Light Strand Market

Holiday Creations/Diogen Lighting, Inc. and Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and purchase agreement to enable a new type of LED to be commercialized in the seasonal light strand market in the US and Canada.

8 Oct 2008

Arrow Asia to Cohost Lighting Solution Seminar in China

Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc., announced that it will cohost a lighting solution seminar in Guangzhou, China, on Oct. 10, with Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED solid-state lighting components.

8 Oct 2008

Joining Forces to Enable High-Volume Production of PicoP Display Engines and Accessory Pico Projectors

Microvision, Inc., a global leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and image capture products for mobility applications, and Asia Optical Co., Inc., a leading manufacturer of electro-optical components, today announced they have entered into a Supply Agreement for Asia Optical to produce products based on Microvision's proprietary PicoP(TM) technology.

8 Oct 2008

Global Adoption of Solid-State Lighting Accelerating At A Rapid Pace

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces a long-term strategic agreement with the Austrian Zumtobel Group, a global market leader in the professional lighting industry and listed on the Vienna stock exchange, to supply LED downlights to the European market. The minimum first-year sales target is 50,000 LR6-230V luminaires. This accelerates the business relationship, which is anticipated to expand into other high-volume lighting categories in 2009.

8 Oct 2008

The Oyamo Group Places Order for the First CT Laser Mammography System for Israel

Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., a pioneer in laser optical breast cancer imaging systems, announced today that its distributor The Oyamo group has place an order for the first CT Laser Mammography System (CTLM(R)) for Jerusalem, Israel.

7 Oct 2008

European Researchers are Shaking Up the Way R+D is Carried Out on Optical Chips

By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips.

7 Oct 2008

How an Enzyme Essential to Vision is Activated

An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6), is central to the way light entering the retina is converted into a cascade of signals to the brain.

7 Oct 2008

Konarka Opens World's Largest Roll-to-Roll Thin Film Solar Manufacturing Facility

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has opened the largest roll-to-roll flexible thin film solar manufacturing facility in the world, preparing for the commercialization and mass production of its patent-protected thin film solar material, Power Plastic.

7 Oct 2008

Commercializing Innovative Night Vision Applications for Military, Government and Security Customers

Evident Technologies, Inc., a nanotechnology company specializing in the commercialization of quantum dot semiconductor nanocrystals, today announced the formation of a new business unit, NightMarker, dedicated to night vision applications for military, government and security customers. NightMarker is one of three business units that comprise Evident Technologies, joining the Life Science and LEDs units.

7 Oct 2008

Conference to Discuss Lighting's Future

The 2008 IES Annual Conference will be held November 9-11 in Savannah, Ga. where Day-Brite Lighting is a corporate sponsor. The theme for this year's conference will be "Day and Night An Exploration of Light" and will focus on "the impact of light on our daytime and nighttime lives," said Nick Bleeker, IES conference steering committee chairman and director of business development for Day-Brite Capri Omega.

7 Oct 2008

Industry's First 8 Gb/sec SFP+ LR Optical Transceivers for Fibre Channel

Avago Technologies today announced availability of the industry's first 8 Gb/sec SFP+ LR (Long Reach) optical transceivers for Fibre Channel applications. The company is a leading supplier of interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications.

7 Oct 2008

JDSU Introduces New Pump Laser to Support FTTH Networks

JDSU(R) today announced the new 4900 Series pump laser product that provides twice the power, improved efficiency and a package that is 70 percent smaller than previous offerings for deployment in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.

7 Oct 2008

AMO to Debut New Dual Combination Packs Featuring Dispersive and Cohesive Healon Products

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., the global leader in advanced refractive technologies for eye care professionals and patients, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) of Healon D® viscoelastic, a clear dispersive ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD) for use as a surgical aid in cataract extraction, intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, corneal transplant, and glaucoma filtration surgery.

7 Oct 2008

Paving the Way Towards Optical Sensing Foils

IMEC's associated laboratory at the Ghent University, INTEC, has made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible to make foils that sense changes in pressure. Such sensing, skin-like foils could be used for monitoring irregular or moving surfaces, e.g. in robots, pliable machinery, or as an artificial skin.

7 Oct 2008

Solyndra Announces More Than $1.2 Billion in Customer Contracts

Solyndra, Inc. today announced a new solar photovoltaic (PV) system for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra's PV system is designed to generate significantly more solar electricity on an annual basis from typical low-slope commercial rooftops with lower installation costs than conventional flat panel PV technologies. Commercial rooftops represent a vast, underutilized resource and huge opportunity for generating solar electricity.

7 Oct 2008