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Breakthrough Technology for Increasing Efficiency and Lowering Cost of LED Systems

Famed inventor Dean Kamen presented the 35th Annual National Inventor of the Year Award to Dr. Ihor Lys of Color Kinetics (now Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions) at the Old Patent Office building in Washington last week. Kamen said Dr. Lys "stood on the shoulders of giants" such as Thomas Edison and improved on the best known invention of all -- the light bulb -- by developing a breakthrough technology for increasing the efficiency and lowering the cost of light emitting diode (LED) lighting systems.

16 Jun 2008

Flat Panel Display Report Analyzes Industry Trends, Development and Applications

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Flat Panel Display Applications: Trends and Forecasts, 2008 Edition" report to their offering.

16 Jun 2008

d.light Launches Line of Revolutionary Lighting Products

d.light design today announced the launch of its first line of revolutionary lighting products, custom-designed for urban and rural households in developing countries that do not have regular access to electricity and are currently relying primarily on dim, polluting and hazardous kerosene lanterns for lighting.

16 Jun 2008

OEwaves Offers High Performance Microwave Oscillator Module

OEwaves, Inc. offers a high performance microwave oscillator module that generates reference signals in the X-band with ultra-low phase noise, in a package measured 4.5 x 5.9 x 0.79 inches. The unique design is based on patented photonic generation of spectrally pure signals at microwave frequencies.

16 Jun 2008

AMO and IER to Develop Contact Lens Disinfectant and Cleaning Solutions Products

Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., a global leader in ophthalmic surgical devices and eye care products, has announced a collaboration with the Institute for Eye Research (IER) to develop contact lens disinfectant and cleaning solutions and related products.

16 Jun 2008

Company Invited to Present on Advanced Laser Technology for Pocket Projectors

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will exhibit at Projection Summit 2008 and demonstrate its miniature BrightLase® Red-Green-Blue "RGB" laser.

16 Jun 2008

Plant to Develop and Produce OLED and Organic Solar Cells

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), one of the leading research institutes in the field of organic-based materials and devices, as well as the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP), leader in the field of large-area vacuum deposition on flexible substrates, have joined forces in the development of a technology for an organic devices roll-to-roll production process.

16 Jun 2008

Compact Device Supports Up to 60 White LEDs for Medium-Sized LCD Applications

Helping display manufacturers meet demands for more efficient power technologies in displays, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced today an innovative, six-channel, 40-V white light emitting diode (LED) driver with a built-in, high-efficiency boost regulator and 1.5-A FET.

12 Jun 2008

LED Backlights Offer Much Thinner Displays

Apple's new MacAir notebook is so slim it has created a new sub-category of laptops. And one of the key enabling technologies behind this innovation is the LED backlight unit. Not only do LED backlights offer increased battery life for notebooks, they can enable much thinner displays - and innovative new thinking about product design.

12 Jun 2008

New Process Shortens Mask Cycle Time and Helps Control Costs

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. today announced that it is the first photomask maker to develop a 32nm photomask manufacturing process and will begin volume production in June. The new process shortens mask cycle time and helps control costs, which are major concerns of industry.

12 Jun 2008

World's First 16 Channel Camera Capturing Images at 200,000,000 Frames/s

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has recently delivered the World's first 16 channel camera capable of capturing images at 200,000,000 frames per second with gating down to 5ns to the UK's EPSRC Engineering Instrument Pool, which is run for the EPSRC by the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Didcot in Oxfordshire.

12 Jun 2008