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Tool Enables Lighting Engineers to Make Tradeoffs Between Performance and Lifetime

Future Lighting Solutions has released the LED Reliability Tool (LRT) at www.futurelightingsolutions.com/LRT, the first interactive online tool that enables lighting designers to truly predict the lifetime of LEDs in their application as a function of junction temperature and current.

4 Aug 2008

Correlative Microscopy Solution Enables Scientists to Acquire High-Res TEM Images of Molecular Entities

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, a leading biochemical research institution, announced today their collaboration on a correlative microscopy solution that enables scientists to quickly and easily acquire high-resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of molecular entities found using optical microscopy techniques.

4 Aug 2008

LED Light to Transform and Energize Lives

iinnLight Technologies, the emerging leader in optimizing light to transform and energize lives, today launched iinnLight Pro(TM), its debut product for the spa industry that enables spas and wellness centers to powerfully contribute to the wellness revolution by delivering the world's first Molecular Massage(TM) while providing a new therapy option to increase profits.

4 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility at Cambridge University

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes. The new facility will make some of Hitachi’s unique instruments, including the S-5500 in-lens SEM, openly accessible to university researchers.

4 Aug 2008

New Exhibition Opens Doors to Fascinating World of Microscopy

Small Matters: Exploring the World of Microscopy will be officially opened by the University of Sydney's new Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence, on Wednesday, 6 August, 2008.

3 Aug 2008

Scientists has Produced Holograms with X-Ray

The pinhole camera, a technique known since ancient times, has inspired a futuristic technology for lensless, three-dimensional imaging. Working at both the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at FLASH, the free-electron laser in Hamburg, Germany, an international group of scientists has produced two of the brightest, sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made, thousands of times more efficiently than previous x-ray-holographic methods.

1 Aug 2008

Protecting Data using Particles of Light

Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces to develop the first quantum cryptography chip for commercial use. The chip, which protects data by generating a completely random sequence of numbers from particles of light, replaces the currently used system of key distribution based on mathematical algorithms.

1 Aug 2008

7 Mega-Science Projects at CAS

With the support of Chinese government, CAS has been undertaking national mega-science projects in line with both the requirements of the national socio-economic development and cutting-edge development of science and technology in the world.

1 Aug 2008

Drop-in-Flight Analysis Provides Flexible Platform for Analyzing Performance of Print Head

JetXpert combines state of the art strobing technology with customized optics and powerful ImageXpert software to provide a flexible platform for analyzing the performance of any print head through drop-in-flight analysis and visualization.

31 Jul 2008

Investigating the Fundamental Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a research grant worth £6 million over five years to a team of academics from the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry and colleagues from the University of Oxford.

31 Jul 2008

SPI Doubles the Power of its Air-Cooled and Water-Cooled Fiber Lasers

SPI Lasers, a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers, today announced that its latest products will double in power and control capability, enabling customers to cut and weld materials with faster process times and with more advanced control options than ever before.

31 Jul 2008

Engineers Using a New Material Developed Smart Contact Lenses

"Smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly could be made possible using a new material developed by biomedical engineers at UC Davis.

31 Jul 2008

Highly Flexible Readout Mode Capable of Achieving Extremely Fast Continuous Frame Rates

Today Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, announces the implementation of the 'Cropped Sensor' Mode as a standard, user-selectable feature with its iXon+, Newton and iKon range of high-performance EMCCD and CCD cameras. This highly flexible and specialized readout mode is capable of achieving extremely fast continuous frame rates (typically sub-millisecond exposures) of either images or spectra.

31 Jul 2008

World's First Analysis Microscope Without an Imaging Lens

Hitachi Ltd and Hokkaido University prototyped an electron analysis microscope that produces an enlarged image by irradiating an electron beam from a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to a specimen and analyzing the diffraction pattern of the scattered light.

30 Jul 2008

Scientists Devised Way to Squeeze Light into Tighter Spaces than Ever Thought Possible

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical communications, miniature lasers and optical computers.

30 Jul 2008