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Strasbourg Equipped with One of the Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

FUJIFILM Acquires Russian Distributor of its Medical and Imaging Products

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has acquired, through its European local corporation, FUJIFILM Europe GmbH (President Shigehiro Nakajima), all shares in "FUJIFILM-RU" (herefater, Fujifilm Russia), a Russian independent distributor of its medical and imaging products, from Marubeni Corporation.

15 Jan 2009

New Insights into the Way Molecules Absorb and Move Energy

Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics.

15 Jan 2009

Photonics Innovation Awards will be Presented at Photonics West 2009

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the premier competition for the photonics industry worldwide.

13 Jan 2009

Visually Challenged MIT Poet's 'Seeing Machine' Allows Sight-Impaired to Take Photos

The demonstration comes more than 20 years after Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and colleagues began work on a "seeing machine" that can allow some people who are blind or visually challenged to access the Internet, view the face of a friend and much more.

13 Jan 2009

New Application of PAT Worth its Weight in Gold to Breast Cancer Patients

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients.

13 Jan 2009

Finding Opens Way to Large Number of Promising Applications

Terahertz cascade lasers are a new family of semi-conductor lasers which emit in the frequency range of the terahertz, or 1012 hertz. Because of their potential applications, they currently raise considerable interest, despite one major drawback: their output beam is markedly divergent.

13 Jan 2009

Avo Photonics Celebrates Its 5th Year of Continuous Operations

Avo Photonics was founded November, 2003 by Dr. Joseph Dallas and Mr. David Winick as an advanced custom opto-electronic design and contract manufacturing house serving customers in the military, aerospace, medical, and telecommunications markets.

13 Jan 2009

Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.

12 Jan 2009

3M MicroTouch DST Selected as Touch Interface for New Commercial Display by ViewSonic

3M Touch Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Company and a leading innovator and manufacturer of touch technology, and ViewSonic® Corporation, a leading global provider of visual display products, join in announcing today at the 2009 International CES that ViewSonic has selected the 3M MicroTouch DST Touch System as the touch interface for its new commercial display, the CD4220T.

11 Jan 2009

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