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Measuring Objects Strictly from Photographs

Imagine landing on the Moon, climbing down the ladder of your spacecraft, and looking around the harsh lunar landscape - to see another, older spacecraft standing only 200 yards away.

24 Jun 2008

Zecotek’s Proprietary MAPD Solid-State Photo Detectors Successfully Tested

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced that the Swiss-based Paul Scherrer Institute has successfully tested Zecotek's proprietary Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diodes (MAPD's) in trials for its next-generation Positron Emission Tomography (PET) medical imaging program.

24 Jun 2008

Future Lighting Donates LUXEON Rebel LEDs for Solar Car Project

Future Lighting Solutions, a leading provider of LED lighting components and solution support, announced today that it has donated LUXEON Rebel LEDs from Philips Lumileds for use on a solar car being built by students at the University of Minnesota. The car will compete in the 2008 North American Solar Challenge, a 2,400-mile race scheduled for July 13-22.

24 Jun 2008

Using Lasers to Cool Semiconductors

When lasers illuminate material it usually warms up. Therefore laser beams are, for example, used for cutting sheet steel, for welding or even as scalpels. But this effect can also be reversed

24 Jun 2008

The Home Depot Launches National CFL Bulb Recycling Program

The Home Depot(R), the world's largest home improvement retailer, today expanded its long-term commitment to the environment and sustainability by launching a national in-store, consumer compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb recycling program at all 1,973 The Home Depot locations.

24 Jun 2008

Using Ultraviolet Light to Identify Organic Matter in Soils

A team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that they say could be used to document the existence of life on Mars.

24 Jun 2008

Report Examines the Rapidly Emerging Market for OLED Lighting

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced a new report that continues the firm's coverage of OLED lighting. The report, titled "OLED Lighting Markets -- 2008," is scheduled to be released in September of 2008 and follows up from the firm's 2007 report, "Emerging Markets for OLED and Printed Lighting."

23 Jun 2008

Capturing Time-Series Snapshots on the Ultra-Fast Timescale

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have captured time-series snapshots of a solid as it evolves on the ultra-fast timescale.

23 Jun 2008

New Fixed Focal Length Imaging Optics Designed for SWIR Cameras

Navitar Inc., a manufacturer of high precision optical assemblies for all machine vision applications, introduces four new fixed focal length imaging optics specifically designed for SWIR (short wave infrared) cameras and applications.

From Navitar Inc. 23 Jun 2008

Delivering Live Cell Imaging at a New Level

With the NanoTracker, the user can trap and track particles from several µm down to 30nm with the ability to control, manipulate and observe vesicles, endosomes, gene and drug spheres, viruses and bacteria, nanoprobes or -carriers, biomarkers or even whole cells in real time with nanometer precision.

23 Jun 2008

New Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope from FEI Company

Leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems FEI Company, today announced the release of the Titan 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM).

23 Jun 2008

Tiny Laptop-Sized Laser Module Achieves Power Output Exceeding 500W

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer display, industrial, defense, and medical markets, announced today that it has shipped a compact BrightLase® Ultra-500(TM) laser to a North American industrial customer for use in industrial metals and plastics processing applications.

23 Jun 2008

Oscillator projected to increase current brightness by millions of times

The future of high-intensity x-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised a new type of next generation light sources.

20 Jun 2008

Making Noninvasive Brain Scans Possible

In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes--previously considered bit players by most neuroscientists--make noninvasive brain scans possible.

20 Jun 2008

Development of Cost-Effective Processes for Volume Production of OLEDs

The development of cost-effective processes for volume production of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is the focus of the research work carried out under the CombOLED project. "The objective of this project, which is being funded by the EU and coordinated by OSRAM, is to create the necessary conditions for introducing the new light sources into lighting applications", said Bernhard Stapp, Head of Solid State Lighting at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.

20 Jun 2008