The East Wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall houses the newly-delivered powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Researchers will now be able to achieve clear images during this fall. By non-invasive methods, the image can be obtained in rich tissue contrasts. Moreover, ionizing radiation is not involved.
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has created the SSL21101, a new type of GreenChip LED driver ICs with Smart Digital Control (SDC) technology. NXP’s SSL21101 is currently being showcased at Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (Hall 13.2, Booth B43).
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
According to GBI Research, the global mania for smartphones will steer the future growth of the pico projector market, as growing consumer demands for the ability to make presentations, watch videos, and capture and see photos will promote new technological breakthroughs.
By Will Soutter
12 Jun 2012
Cree, a LED lighting innovator, has declared the establishment of new technology centers in China. This move further expands Cree Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, Photometric, and Optical (TEMPO) Services in these major markets.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
International researches, headed by the University of Colorado Boulder, have used a tabletop device to successfully produce the first laser-like beams of X-rays. The discovery could promote major advances in several fields such as nanotechnology, medicine, and biology.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
Hi Score has decided to reestablish its efforts to focus on sales in the rapidly developing energy-saving LED streetlight market.
By Will Soutter
11 Jun 2012
On June 11, NASA will conduct a news teleconference, wherein it will confer about the impending launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft. This soon-to-launch NuSTAR will take off on June 13, around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
Sumitomo Electric Lightwave has introduced the FC-6RM-C fiber cleaver and the FC-6RS automatic blade rotation cleaver. The FC-6RM-C cleaver is the first automatic blade clever in the industry that is used for 1 to 12 fibers with high precision cleaves.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
Larson Electronics’ Magnalight.com has launched a portable lighting system, LED12W-1x4LT-IR light tower that includes four LED lights of 3 W power capacity, which are mounted on an adjustable aluminum shaft, whose height can be adjusted from 24 in.to 8 ft for in order to enable optical illumination of the area focused.
By Will Soutter
8 Jun 2012
BaySpec, Inc., a leader in advanced spectroscopic instruments, today announced the SuperGamut Wavelength Measurement System enabling low light spectral measurements of high speed light sources from the UV to near-infrared region.
Veeco Instruments has recently unveiled three new models of its innovative TurboDisc metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems. The latest models are TurboDisc MaxBright M, TurboDisc K465i HP and TurboDisc MaxBright MHP that will support the manufacture of high brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs).
EMBL Heidelberg researchers used a new microscope for capturing a 3D film of a fruit fly embryo. It was two-and-a-half hours old when it emerged out of the microscope as a larva.
By G.P. Thomas
6 Jun 2012
Directed by researchers from the Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (CNRS / Inserm / UPMC), an international team successfully used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to achieve better visual capabilities of a consortium of healthy subjects.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
The 3M Company’s Optical Systems Division integrate technologies with Nanosys that will result in wide color gamut technology that supports consumer electronic displays, through which Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) can display 50 % more color.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012
Cablenet Communication Systems with an aim to increase its optical network capacity has bought equipment from Ekinops, a provider of advanced optical equipment. The equipment will enable transport over an individual optical fiber in a bidirectional manner and this indeed optimizes the fiber infrastructure of Cablenet.
By Will Soutter
6 Jun 2012