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ML-N Macro Lens Designed to Provide Real High Performance Alternative to CCTV Lenses

Designed to provide a real high performance alternative to CCTV lenses, Moritex has announced new additions to its ML-N Macro Lens range.

19 Mar 2008

Using Lasers to Produce Nanomaterials

With the predicted ramping up of nanotechnology based materials over the next decade, expectations are high that demand for high-tech materials will also skyrocket. Already the evidence is present for a revolution in the manufacture of materials based on nano-engineered structures.

19 Mar 2008

Step Forward in the Worldwide Quest to Further Shrink Electronic Devices

Recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated that thin films made of "metamaterials"-manmade composites engineered to offer strange combinations of electromagnetic properties-can reduce the size of resonating circuits that generate microwaves.

19 Mar 2008

First Active Optical Cables Providing Electrical Connectivity Over 300 Meters

Reflex Photonics today announced its first InterBOARD(TM) QSFP Active Optical Cables (AOC), which will provide bi-directional, electrical to electrical connectivity over distances up to 300 meters using multi-mode optical fiber.

19 Mar 2008

New Cube Creates Big, Bright Image for Large Command and Control Environments

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division, known for award-winning, high-quality presentation and display products, today introduced its MegaView Wall(TM) video wall cube that measures 80-inches diagonally, designed specifically for large command and control centers.

19 Mar 2008

Visionsense Receives FDA Clearance for Stereoscopic Vision System

Visionsense Corp. announces FDA 510(k) Clearance of the new VSII -- Visionsense Stereoscopic Vision System. The system is based on a miniature 3.4 mm distal ("chip-on-a-stick") stereoscopic 3D camera targeting Minimal Invasive laparoscopic and endoscopic Surgery (MIS).

19 Mar 2008

Understanding and Planning for 3D Display Systems

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2007 3D Technology and Markets: A Study of All Aspects of Electronic 3D Systems, Applications and Markets to their offering.

19 Mar 2008

The Penetration of LEDs into the Projection Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2006 LED Projection Report to their offering.

19 Mar 2008

World's Most Flexible Digital Camera Platform

Phase One A/S and Mamiya Digital Imaging Co., Ltd. today unveiled the world's most flexible, open medium format digital camera platform. Known as the Phase One 645 Camera or the Mamiya 645AFDIII, the co-developed platform will be sold exclusively by Phase One and Mamiya respectively.

19 Mar 2008

Flexible and Efficient Design Simplifies and Lowers the Cost for Isolation Requirements

Avago Technologies today announced a new gate drive optocoupler. The company is a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications.

19 Mar 2008

Single Chip IC Solution Enhances Performance of Sensors

Avago Technologies today announced a new miniature single-chip signal conditioning IC that enhances the performance and robustness of optical sensors used for proximity or object detection in consumer and industrial applications.

18 Mar 2008

Company Expands PV Production Capacity to 500MW by 2012

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will invest a total of some 7 billion yen to expand annual production capacity of photovoltaic (PV) cells, in response to a sharp increase in demand for solar power generation systems.

18 Mar 2008

Project to Deploy 860 Miles of Fiber

CDE Lightband, formerly the Clarksville Department of Electricity in Clarksville, Tenn., has selected Clearfield, Inc. to provide the fiber management platform for one of the largest fiber to the home (FTTH) initiatives in the country.

18 Mar 2008

New Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Process Technology

BTU International, a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment for the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, today announced the opening of its new Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Process Technology in Shanghai, China.

18 Mar 2008

Effectively Dissipating Heat in Small Spaces

Already credited with making vapor chambers (a once exotic heat sink technology) thin, light and affordable, Celsia Technologies today introduces its second generation NanoSpreader.

18 Mar 2008