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Thermography Forum Attracted Record Numbers

The 4th Japanese Forum on Thermography, organised by Cedip Infrared Systems, attracted over 70 participants from leading academic institutions and companies from the automotive, electronics, steelworking and photonics sectors.

5 Feb 2008

Yingli Green Energy Reduces Thickness of PV Wafers

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturers, today announced guidance for its 2008 PV module shipments and the achievement of a significant operating milestone.

5 Feb 2008

BioDiscovery Releases Latest Software for Microarray Image Analysis

BioDiscovery Inc., the leading developer of integrated software solutions for microarray based research announced today the release of ImaGene 8.0 for microarray image analysis. The new features include improved auto-gridding, faster processing for highly dense arrays, and support for multi-sample arrays.

5 Feb 2008

Star Instruments and RC Optical Systems Signs Settlement Agreement

Star Instruments, a leading manufacturer of Ritchey-Chrétien optical systems, and RC Optical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes, today announced that Meade Instruments Corporation and its dealers have effectively signed a settlement agreement to rename their RCX400 and LX200R line of telescopes that they claimed contained “Advanced Ritchey-Chrétien” optics.

4 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Cryo-TEM Delivers Fast 3D Information

FEI Company has introduced a revolutionary, high-throughput, cryo transmission electron microscope (TEM) that combines high- throughput sample handling with state-of- the-art electron optics. It provides fast, fully-automated three-dimensional data about biological molecules and macromolecular complexes.

4 Feb 2008

Popping a Spare onto a 3,200-Tonne Radio Telescope

Engineers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire needed more than just a jack and a brace when a steel tyre on the famous Lovell radio telescope cracked.

4 Feb 2008

Active Array Holds Key to Through-the-Wall Imaging

Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49 simultaneous ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned beam reflections.

4 Feb 2008

Industry's First 2Amp LED Driver in a Single Chip Solution

Exar Corporation has released the SP7600 LED driver capable of driving high power LEDs up to 2Amps.

4 Feb 2008

Global Standard for Reliable Long-Term Optical Storage

The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) and Ecma International announced today that the International Standards Organization (ISO) has approved ISO/IEC 10995, a global standard for optical media archive life testing for recordable and rewritable DVDs.

4 Feb 2008