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Agilent Laser Calibration Tool Sets Industry Standard

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a new Dynamic Calibrator, a laser-based calibration system for measuring machine-tool and coordinate-measuring-machine (CMM) accuracy. New sensors in the system offer accuracy to 0.4ppm, setting a new industry standard.

17 Jun 2008

Compact Device Supports Up to 60 White LEDs for Medium-Sized LCD Applications

Helping display manufacturers meet demands for more efficient power technologies in displays, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced today an innovative, six-channel, 40-V white light emitting diode (LED) driver with a built-in, high-efficiency boost regulator and 1.5-A FET.

12 Jun 2008

New Way of Bending X-Ray Beams Could Lead to Greatly Improved Space Telescopes

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

12 Jun 2008

Video Correction LSI Significantly Improves Video Quality Under Low Light

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced it has developed "ML87V21072," a video correction LSI for monitoring cameras with a noise reduction function and a FIFO frame memory.

10 Jun 2008

DuPont Dry Film Photoresists Address Productivity and Environmental Challenges

DuPont Advanced Packaging Lithography, part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, has fully commercialized DuPont"! WBR 2000 Series dry film photoresist material for advanced semiconductor packaging applications, including electroplated solder, photostencil and copper pillar bumping.

4 Jun 2008

Demonstrating the Capabilities of Biosensors with Integrated Printed Optoelectronics

BIOIDENT Technologies Inc., the leader in the development of mobile analytic and diagnostic systems, today announced that the company was awarded a contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project "Printed Diagnostic Arrays".

29 May 2008

Ultra-Thin Image Sensor Based on the Insect Eye

Insects are a source of inspiration for technological development work. For example, researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye. The principle of hyperacuity has now been successfully incorporated in a technical model.

29 May 2008

Partner Network Continues to Expand as Market Interest in LED Lighting Increases

LED Light for you (LLFY) is an internet-based partnering network established to bring together the combined skills of more than 60 certified partners from around the world. The network offers luminaire manufacturers, lighting planners and other LED users concentrated technical know-how and support in designing, planning and implementing LED lighting systems for the Solid State Lighting (SSL) market.

28 May 2008

Simplifying AC to DC Output in High-Power LED Designs

ROHM Electronics introduces the industry's first AC/DC-isolated LED driver modules utilizing constant-current circuits optimized for driving LEDs. The new BP58xx series integrates all required LED-driving control circuits, switching elements, isolation transformers and constant-current circuits into a single SIP package.

28 May 2008

Single Laser Pulse Creates Complex, Ordered Nanostructure Systems

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an article in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.

28 May 2008

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