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Company Unveils Plans to Proliferate Single-Frame Super-Resolution Technology

NEC Electronics today introduced a new application-specific standard product (ASSP) to address the dramatic divergence between yesterday's image resolution and the high resolution of today's audio-visual (AV) display systems. Based on the company's unique single-frame super-resolution technology, the small, low-power ASSP (part number uPD9245GJ) reduces the blurring that occurs when low-resolution images are expanded and displayed in high-resolution.

4 Feb 2009

New 2000 mW CW Green Laser from Coherent Providing High Value Alternative to DPSS Lasers in OEM Applications

The new Genesis™ 532-2000 S from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) is a 2000 mW CW, green (532 nm) laser that provides the first compact and high value alternative to diode-pumped solid state DPSS lasers in scientific and OEM applications. This is the first multi-watt green laser with performance optimized for these markets based on Coherent's unique, optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology.

4 Feb 2009

First LED Downlight to Meet Stringent ENERGY STAR Requirements

Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries, Ltd. (NYSE:CBE), announces that its Halo® LED recessed downlight is the first in the industry to meet stringent ENERGY STAR® requirements for solid state lighting (SSL) luminaires. The Halo LED Downlight's performance earns an ENERGY STAR qualification by meeting the ENERGY STAR Program Requirements for Solid State Lighting Luminaires: Eligibility Criteria - Version 1.0 for Category A - Recessed Downlights.

3 Feb 2009

Report Analyzes The Medical Imaging Market And Examines Major Trends Prevalent In The Sector

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Medical Imaging Market Report: 2009 Edition" report to their offering.

3 Feb 2009

New Imaging Technology that Produces the Best 3-D Resolution Ever Seen with an Optical Microscope

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces the best three-dimensional resolution ever seen with an optical microscope.

2 Feb 2009

Organic Electronic Devices Possible with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Process

Someday, moving a large, flat-screen TV across the country might be as simple as taking it off the wall, rolling it up and sliding it into a study tube. That's the vision of researchers Christopher Ober and George Malliaras at Cornell University, and Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who are fabricating organic semiconducting materials with a little help from supercritical carbon dioxide, or CO2.

2 Feb 2009

Pore-free Ceramics Shine New Light on Lasers

To most people, the word "ceramics," refers to opaque clay flower pots or translucent porcelain tea cups. But not all ceramics block or scatter light. Gary L. Messing, distinguished professor of ceramic science and engineering, and his group at Pennsylvania State University, are developing a brand new class of ceramics that are so pure and perfectly transparent, they can be used as a substitute for crystals in solid-state lasers.

31 Jan 2009

Anisotropy Imaging Technique Now Available for LSM 710 Laser Scanning Microscope from Carl Zeiss

The anisotropy imaging technique is now available for the serial equipment of the LSM 710 laser scanning microscope from Carl Zeiss. It supplements the special imaging techniques such as RICS (Raster Image Correlation Spectroscopy) and FCS (Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy) already possible with the LSM 710.

31 Jan 2009

UV Light-Enhanced Tooth Bleaching Not Only a Con, but Dangerous to Your Eyes and Skin

UV light-enhanced tooth bleaching is not only a con, but is dangerous to your eyes and skin, says a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

29 Jan 2009

Blue Light Destroys Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infection

Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that is described in a paper published online ahead of print in Photomedicine and Laser Surgery.

29 Jan 2009