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New COTS Marine and Naval Multifunction Displays from AIS

American Industrial Systems Inc. AIS, an ISO 9001:2008 is a certified supplier and manufacturer of COTS multifunction displays for marine's integrated platform management system (IPMS) and integrated bridge system (IBS) applications.

16 Jul 2013

Research to Develop Functional Imaging Technologies for Photoreceptor Diseases Receives Career Development Award

UC Davis Health System’s Eye Center has received a $250,000 Career Development Award from Research to Prevent Blindness to support the research of Ala Moshiri, an assistant professor of ophthalmology and director of electrophysiology services at the Eye Center.

16 Jul 2013

Accurate Control of Random Lasers

The light they emit is as unique as a fingerprint: random lasers are tiny devices with a light emission pattern governed by random scattering of light. Understanding the underlying details of random lasing action has only been achieved recently.

16 Jul 2013

Hubble Discovers New Moon Orbiting Distant Blue-Green Planet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet.

16 Jul 2013

Samsung Introduces Consumer Multi-Touch Display and Ergonomic Rotating Display Monitors

Please replace the release dated July 11, 2013 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions to the "Contrast Ratio" specifications in the "Key Specs" chart.

15 Jul 2013

EyeMed Vision Care Achieves Certified Center of Excellence Distinction

EyeMed Vision Care, the nation’s fastest-growing vision benefits company and part of Luxottica, a leader in vision care and eyewear, announced that their Customer Care Center recently earned the distinction as a Certified Center of Excellence for the fourth consecutive year by BenchmarkPortal, a global leader in contact center benchmarking, certification, training and consulting.

15 Jul 2013

Novel 3D Display without Ghosting

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a prototype for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with stereo glasses to see three-dimensional images, while viewers without the glasses see a normal two-dimensional image.

15 Jul 2013

EPFL Professor Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Dynamics Journal

Professor Majed Chergui has been appointed Editor-in-chief of the open-access and online-only journal recently jointly created by the American Institute of Physics and the American Crystallographic Association.

15 Jul 2013

Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Data on Solar Tsunami Used to Estimate Sun's Magnetic Field

A solar tsunami observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Japanese Hinode spacecraft has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun's magnetic field.

12 Jul 2013

NASA Invites Proposals for Use of Data from Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean Instrument

The International Space Station is expanding the use of its Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) instrument to more Earth scientists and environmental researchers.

12 Jul 2013

LG Electronics Introduces Full-Backlit Ultra HD LED Array Models in Wider Range of Sizes

Building on its success with the industry's first 84-inch class Ultra High Definition flat-panel TV available in the United States, LG Electronics today expanded its 2013 Ultra HD line to include the first full-backlit LED array models in 55- and 65-inch class (54.6- and 64.7-inch diagonal, respectively) screen sizes, making Ultra HD technology available for a larger segment of the market.

12 Jul 2013

NASA to Test Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science Communications Technology

NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen transmission of scientific data.

12 Jul 2013

New Technique to View Hidden Objects by Controlling Light Scattering Using Holography

Recently, a popular article demonstrated that opaque glass becomes transparent as transparent tape is applied to the glass. The scientific principle is that light was less scattered as the rough surface of the opaque glass is filled by transparent tape. Professor Yong Keun Park from KAIST’s Department of Physics, in a joint research with MIT Spectroscopy Lab, has developed the technology to easily control light scattering using holography. Their results are published on Nature’s Scientific Report May 29th online edition.

12 Jul 2013

New 20-Element Photodiode from Opto Diode - For Electron Detection and Bolometry Applications

Opto Diode, a division of ITW, and a member of the ITW Photonics Group, announces the second in the AXUV series of multi-element photodiodes. The new 20-element AXUV20ELG features a 22-pin, dual in-line package with 100 percent internal quantum efficiency (QE).

From Opto Diode Corp. 11 Jul 2013

P&P Optica’s SWIR Spectrometer Wins 2013 R&D 100 Award

P&P Optica Inc., has been named a winner of the 2013 R&D 100 Awards by R&D Magazine for its breakthrough Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Spectrometer - The PPO SWIR. The R&D 100 Award recognizes the top technology products of the year, and this year the PPO SWIR was chosen for the "Oscars for Innovation," as one of the most revolutionary, newly introduced technologies to the market. This is the second consecutive year P&P Optica has won an R&D 100 award.

From P&P Optica 11 Jul 2013