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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

Leading Manufacturer of Ruggedised Lenses for Military and Civilian Customers

Drawing upon over 20 years experience - Resolve Optics Ltd has developed an international reputation for the design and supply of OEM quantities of ruggedised lenses for demanding military and civilian applications.

12 Jun 2008

Keeping Track of Visitors at Major Sporting Events

The silky skills of Europe's top footballers will not be the only eye catcher this summer as the movement of the fans themselves fall under the watchful gaze of state-of-the-art video surveillance.

12 Jun 2008

Europe is Now a Leader in the Production of Flexible Electronic Displays Segment

Flexible electronic display technology developed by European researchers has allowed companies on the continent to make inroads in a market dominated by Asian firms.

12 Jun 2008

New Way of Bending X-Ray Beams Could Lead to Greatly Improved Space Telescopes

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

12 Jun 2008

Daktronics Unveiled the Most Advanced Digital Billboard Available

Daktronics Inc., the world's top digital billboard manufacturer, today unveiled the 12 mm Valo(TM) Optimized Technology digital billboard, the most advanced digital billboard available. Featuring wide viewing angles, enhanced contrast and a high-density pixel configuration for close-up viewing, the 12 mm Valo(TM) OT delivers the sharpest images in outdoor advertising.

11 Jun 2008

An Easy-to-Read Website Designed to Answer the Basic Question

As American consumers and businesses struggle with the myriad of light bulb choices available to achieve energy efficiency and other objectives, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., has created an easy-to-read website designed to answer the basic question, "What is the best light bulb for me?"

11 Jun 2008