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Using Sunlight to Produce Hydrogen

ASU intends to develop in a new program that uses bacteria and sunlight to generate hydrogen, a clean fuel that produces no greenhouse gases.

16 Jan 2008

Beautiful Colour on Butterfly Wings May Help Create Impressive Optic Effects in Paint

Nowhere in nature is there so much beautiful colour as on the wings of butterflies. Scientists, however, are still baffled about exactly how these colours are created.

16 Jan 2008

Photon Dynamics Receives Order for Flat Panel Display Test and Repair System

Photon Dynamics, Inc., a global supplier utilizing advanced machine vision technology to provide market leading Liquid Crystal Display yield enhancement systems and high performance digital imaging systems for defense, surveillance, industrial inspection and medical imaging applications, today announced that it has received an order for its market leading ArrayChecker"! flat panel display test and ArraySaver"! repair system from Plastic Logic Limited for their new flexible electronic paper display manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.

16 Jan 2008

Pixelplus to Supply SoC Image Sensors for Mobile Camera Phones

Pixelplus Co., Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company in Korea that designs, develops, and markets CMOS image sensors for various consumer electronics applications, today announced that the Company has secured a strategic design win to supply its PO4010 CIF 'System-on-a-Chip' ("SoC") image sensors ("PO4010") for use in upcoming mobile camera phones of Pantech.

16 Jan 2008

Using Semiconductor Nanowires to Increase Efficiency of PV Technology

Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp, has developed a strategic partnership with McMaster University's Department of Engineering Physics by way of a research collaboration agreement dated December 18, 2007 between Cleanfield, McMaster and the Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc.. The project is being partially funded by OCE's Centre for Photonics. OCE is a not for profit organization partially funded by the Government of Ontario.

16 Jan 2008

QPC Lasers Showcases Next Generation Products at SPIE Photonics West Conference

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will showcase its next generation products and technologies at the SPIE Photonics West Conference and at the Biomedical Optics (BIOS) Exhibition on January 19-24th in San Jose, CA.

16 Jan 2008

New Therapeutic Laser Technology Sets Clinicians Apart

Chiropractors, athletic trainers, physical therapists and other medical professionals are expanding their practices with affordable therapeutic laser devices that combine super pulsed laser, infrared, visible red light and magnetic field. FDA 510(k)-cleared therapeutic laser devices, such as TerraQuant® developed by Multi Radiance Medical, deliver photons to targeted areas of the body to relieve pain and swelling.

16 Jan 2008

Turnkey Solution Dramatically Increases Efficiencies of Solar Cells

Braggone, the optoelectronics materials company, has signed a joint development agreement with equipment supplier Beneq that offers a turnkey solution to provide a custom matched material and toolset for the maximum manufacturing efficiency and product performance of solar cells.

16 Jan 2008

Air Products to Supply Related Gas Needs for New Thin-film photovoltaic Module Production Facility

Air Products today announced it has signed an agreement with Signet Solar Inc. to supply turnkey installation of gas delivery systems and services and related gas needs for a new, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module production facility in Mochau, Germany. The long-term agreement includes the supply of hydrogen, helium, nitrogen and argon, as well as specialty gases such as silane, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and dopant gases. The new plant will be onstream in the summer of 2008.

16 Jan 2008

Licensing Agreement Enables Nemotek to Offer Full Range of Cost-Efficient Camera Solutions

Tessera Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, today announced that it has licensed its OptiML™ Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) technology and SHELLCASE® Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) solutions to Nemotek S.A. The combination of these consumer optics technologies enables Nemotek to offer a full range of cost-efficient camera solutions from wafer-level packaging of image sensors and wafer-level lenses to fully-integrated camera modules.

16 Jan 2008

FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named Sumitomo’s FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

16 Jan 2008

RIO Expanding Fiber Optic Sensor Market Portfolio

RIO today announced product availability of a narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise laser, housed in an industry-standard 14-pin butterfly package, specifically designed for fiber optic sensing applications.

16 Jan 2008

Nano Photovoltaics Team Demonstrates Scalable Silicon Nanowire Based Solar Cell

GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced that scientists on their Nano Photovoltaics (PV) team have demonstrated a scalable silicon nanowire-based solar cell, which has the potential to achieve up to 18% efficiency and be produced at a dramatically lower cost than conventional solar cells. This demonstration represents a promising development in the effort to make PV systems more economically viable for consumers.

16 Jan 2008

Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

Energy Program Focusing on Novel Photovoltaic Materials and Solar Power Plants

MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants.

15 Jan 2008