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Agreement Allows Scientists to Perform Research with an Efficient, Stable and Bright Light Setting

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announced today that it has signed a global supply agreement with CoolLED Ltd. to integrate the company's PrecisExcite® LED light source for fluorescence microscopy in its own range of microscopy systems. This will allow scientists to perform their research with an efficient, stable and bright light setting.

28 Aug 2008

Optimising External Quantum Efficiency and Emission Wavelength of LEDs

At Ferdinand-Braun-Institute (FBH) in Berlin LayTec's EpiCurve®TT HR (High Resolution) sensor is successfully used to optimise the external quantum efficiency and the emission wavelength of LEDs for near UV spectral region. Dr. Arne Knauer and co-workers apply the sensor for monitoring of composition of AlGaN and InAlGaN barrier layers.

28 Aug 2008

Monitor UV-VIS Reflectivity Spectra of Individual Layers During OLED in-Line Evaporation

In collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) in Dresden, Germany, LayTec has adopted its spectral reflectometer EpiR DA to an OLED in-line evaporation system to monitor UV-VIS reflectivity spectra of individual layers during production process.

28 Aug 2008

Epson Ships 50 Millionth High-Temperature Polysilicon TFT Panel for 3LCD Projection Systems

Seiko Epson Corporation today announced that it recently shipped its 50 millionth high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT panel for 3LCD projection systems. Epson has maintained its position as the industry's leading supplier of HTPS panels, the key component in 3LCD projectors, ever since becoming the first manufacturer in the world to launch full-scale volume production of 1.3-inch VGA panels in 1994.

27 Aug 2008

Astronomers Made Stunning Discovery using Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Two UC Santa Barbara astronomers are part of a team that has made a stunning discovery using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, it was announced today by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

27 Aug 2008

Continues CACI Support for Training and Technology Development

CACI International Inc announced today that it has been awarded a $36 million prime contract to support the Modeling and Simulation Division of the U.S. Army's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). CACI received the competitive three-year contract (two-year base and one-year option) under its Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract with the U.S. Army.

27 Aug 2008

NASA Rename GLAST to Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed their orbital checkout with flying colors.

27 Aug 2008

New Microlens Focuses Infrared Light at Telecommunication Frequencies

Using semiconductor nanotechnology, Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, and his team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials Research Institute have created a new microlens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies

27 Aug 2008

Market Will Benefit From Very Efficient and Very Thin OLED Device

Vitex, leader in thin film encapsulation and Novaled, leader in highly efficient long lifetime OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes), are going to combine advantages of the Vitex Barix thin film technology with the Novaled doping technology and materials targeting very thin and high efficiency long lifetime OLED products.

27 Aug 2008

Resolve Optics Announces Presence at Photonex 2008 and VISION 2008 Exhibitions

Resolve Optics Ltd. has announced its presence at the forthcoming Photonex 2008 and VISION 2008 exhibitions.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 27 Aug 2008

Cambridge Research + Instrumentation Announces Release of Maestro EX In Vivo Imaging System

Cambridge Research + Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) announces the release of the Maestro(TM) EX In Vivo Imaging System. The new system incorporates CRi's state-of-the-art FLEX technology and becomes the entry-level instrument of choice for in vivo fluorescence imaging.

26 Aug 2008

Laser Technology a Big Step in Increasing Corn and Soybean Yields 40 Percent in 10 Years

DuPont today unveiled an advanced technology that will transform seed research and considerably speed up the development of higher yielding corn and soybean varieties.

26 Aug 2008

Highly Flexible Converters Allow On-the-Fly Output Current Correction to Enhance Photo Quality

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc., a developer of power management integrated circuits for communications, computing and consumer electronics devices, announced today two new additions to its growing family of high current White LED (WLED) flash drivers. Supporting either two WLEDs at up to 750 mA each or one WLED at up to 1.5A and coming in a compact 3x3-mm TDFN package, the AAT1271 and AAT1272 dual-channel boost converters are the first devices of their type in AnalogicTech's WLED driver product line to feature the company's proprietary AS(2)Cwire and industry-standard I(2)C interface respectively.

26 Aug 2008

SIL-2 Image Intensifiers Allow Fast Framing Rates and Short Exposure Times

Specialised Imaging Ltd. have introduced the new SIL-2 family of high performance, gated image intensifier systems to improve the sensitivity, gating time and spectral response and scope of operation of both high-speed video and ultra-high-speed framing cameras.

26 Aug 2008

LIDAR Bringing High-Res 3-D Data for the First Time

On August 26, EPFL, the Swiss National Science Foundation and Switzerland's National Weather service, MeteoSwiss, will inaugurate a new LIDAR measurement system in Payerne, Switzerland. This technically innovative installation, unique in the world, will provide continuous data on atmospheric humidity for Western Switzerland's weather forecasting headquarters.

26 Aug 2008