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Revolutionary Instrument Wins 2008 R+D 100 award

Hinds Instruments, a leading global supplier of photoelastic modulators (PEMs), today announced it was awarded a 2008 R+D 100 award from R&D Magazine for its Two Modulator Generalized Ellipsometry Microscope (2-MGEM) Optical Anisotropy Factor Measurement System.

12 Sep 2008

Step Forward to One of Mankind's Biggest Dreams and Challenges - Invisibility

A research group of the Departments of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism of the University of Granada(Spain), directed by Professors Jorge Andrés Portí, Alfonso Salinas and Juan Antonio Morente, have taken a step forward with regard to one of mankind's biggest dreams and challenges, often tackled by fiction writers and film makers: invisibility.

12 Sep 2008

Alcon Expands Refractive Surgery Options with AcrySof Phakic Intraocular Lens

Alcon, Inc. announced the international release of the new AcrySof® Phakic Lens at the 2008 European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) annual meeting in Berlin, Germany. Based on Alcon's proven and trusted AcrySof® intraocular lens (IOL) material, Alcon designed the AcrySof® Phakic Lens to become the surgeon's preferred solution for patients with moderate to high levels of myopia (nearsightedness).

12 Sep 2008

Manufacturing Techniques to Meet Demand for More Efficient Concentrator Photovoltaic Units

Arch Aluminum and Glass Co., Inc. has developed innovative new mirror manufacturing techniques to meet the demand for lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units in the burgeoning renewable energy industry.

11 Sep 2008

Lasers Pushing the Limits

In a quest to push the limits of intensity to achieve extreme light-matter interactions in large molecules, a team of researchers from RIKEN's Advanced Science Institute in Wako, the SPring-8 Center in Harima, and the University of Tokyo, has demonstrated the ionisation and consequently the dissociation of nitrogen molecules using a free-electron laser.

11 Sep 2008

The Role of Optoelectronics in a Sustainable Future

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) concluded its Green Photonics forum today examining the role of optoelectronics in a sustainable future. The various segments represented at the forum developed trend maps reflecting the ways that optoelectronics is enabling many aspects of the green revolution.

11 Sep 2008

Setting New Standards in Professional Film with EKTAR 100

Eastman Kodak Company continues to champion professional photographers and set new standards in professional film with the new KODAK PROFESSIONAL EKTAR 100 (EKTAR 100) film. This new film, with ISO 100 speed, high saturation and ultra-vivid color, offers the finest, smoothest grain of any color negative film available today.

11 Sep 2008

Leading Podiatrists Now Treating Patients with Ground Breaking Laser Technology

PathoLase, Inc., an emerging leader in the medical technology industry, reported today that a select group of leading podiatrists in several markets in the US are now treating patients who suffer from toenail fungus (Onychomycosis) with its ground breaking laser technology. Using PathoLase's patented PinPointe FootLaser system, podiatrists in Sacramento, San Jose, Salt Lake City and Belleville, New Jersey are open for business treating their patients' toenail fungus.

11 Sep 2008

Improved Efficiency Could Enable Research, Military and Medical Uses

A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT leader in the field.

11 Sep 2008

Exciting Technology Breakthrough Enables Company to Make LEDs of Any Color

Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the commercial availability of its evidot® LED products based on semiconductor nanocrystal technology. Whereas traditional LEDs are available in a limited set of standard colors (e.g. blue, green, red, etc.), this new product line of LEDs from Evident Technologies enables LEDs to emit any color, including high quality white light.

11 Sep 2008

Researchers Discovered Method for Destroying Tumor Cells Using Nanoparticles and Light

Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered a method for destroying tumor cells by using nanoparticles and light. Wensha Yang's technique is actually dealing with quantum dots.

11 Sep 2008

Unique Lighting Management IC Ideal for Smart Phones and Portable Media Players

ON Semiconductor, a global leader in high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has introduced the NCP5890 - a unique lighting management device that integrates LCD backlighting, fun light controls and ambient light sensing into a tiny 3 mm x 3 mm x 0.5 mm package.

10 Sep 2008

Sale Marks the 24th State National Guard Unit to Purchase BrightEye Tactical Lighting System

Cyberlux Corporation, a leading provider of LED lighting solutions, announced today that the Company has received a purchase order from the Hawaiian Air National Guard for the purchase of a BrightEye Tactical Illumination System.

10 Sep 2008

Robotic Telescope Registered Brightest Ever Observed Optical Burst from Distant Universe

On 19-03-2008 polish robotic telescope registered the brightest ever observed optical burst from the distant Universe. The results have just been published in the renowned scientific journal "Nature"

10 Sep 2008

Permasteelisa and ERG Renew Enter Next-Generation Solar Power Sector

ERG Renew (ERG Group) and Permasteelisa will enter into the nextgeneration photovoltaic panels sector through their participation in a cutting edge research and development technological project for the production of non-silicon based solar panels. The objective is to develop over the next four years so-called "organic" photovoltaic cells and to start-up an industrial production line of DSSC panels (Dye Sensitized Solar Cells). This innovative technology utilises light-sensitive organic pigments and nanotechnology to generate electricity.

10 Sep 2008