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Highly Efficient Light Sources with Photo Detectors on a Single CMOS Chip

For the first time ever, OLEDs and OLED-on-CMOS integration offer the possibility to integrate highly efficient light sources with photo detectors on a single CMOS chip. This enables monolithically integrated optoelectronic applications based on standard silicon.

25 Mar 2008

The Annual Excellence in X-ray Diffraction Scholarship

Bruker AXS, a leading global provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life and advanced materials sciences, announced that it is again awarding its annual Excellence in X-ray Diffraction (XRD) scholarship -- based on unique experiments performed by university students.

24 Mar 2008

DARPA Project Advances Chip Communications Via Proximity and Optical Connections

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Sun $44.29 million funding for a five and a half-year research project focused on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication.

24 Mar 2008

System Represents Significant Advancement in Accuracy in Disposable Sensors

Finesse Solutions, LLC, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announces the release of TruFluor(TM), a single use optical dissolved oxygen measurement system, at Interphex in Philadelphia on March 26, 2008.

24 Mar 2008

Emergence of PIC Will Lead to Massive Changes in Optical Networks

The long-awaited emergence of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology will lead to a massive change in the way optical networks are built and deployed over the next decade.

19 Mar 2008

ML-N Macro Lens Designed to Provide Real High Performance Alternative to CCTV Lenses

Designed to provide a real high performance alternative to CCTV lenses, Moritex has announced new additions to its ML-N Macro Lens range.

19 Mar 2008

Using Lasers to Produce Nanomaterials

With the predicted ramping up of nanotechnology based materials over the next decade, expectations are high that demand for high-tech materials will also skyrocket. Already the evidence is present for a revolution in the manufacture of materials based on nano-engineered structures.

19 Mar 2008

Single Chip IC Solution Enhances Performance of Sensors

Avago Technologies today announced a new miniature single-chip signal conditioning IC that enhances the performance and robustness of optical sensors used for proximity or object detection in consumer and industrial applications.

18 Mar 2008

Developers of Projection Systems Get A Boost with New Laser Combiner Developers Kit

Developers of projection systemns are set to get a boost with the availability of a developers kit from Agilent Technologies that will assist them improve cost, maintenance requirements and the overall viewing experience.

18 Mar 2008

Uni Surrey High Power Laser Zap to Nanotechnology

Scientists at the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) of the University of Surrey and at the School of Chemistry in the University of Bristol have been awarded funding of nearly £0.87M from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to investigate techniques using high-power, short-pulsed lasers for the production of important nanomaterials, including nanoclusters, nanotubes and nanorods of carbon and zinc oxide, with controllable electrical and optical properties.

18 Mar 2008

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