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Researchers Produced Material That Can Bend Light in Opposite Direction

A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats.

14 Oct 2007

Self-Contained Solar-Powered Energy Source Provides Dependable Electricity for Lights

Carmanah Technologies Corporation today introduced its newest innovation, the EverGEN solar engine, at the Solar Power 2007 conference in Long Beach, California.

14 Oct 2007

Konarka Technologies Awarded Advanced Technology Program to Develop Transparent Flexible Solar Modules

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has been selected, along with Air Products (NYSE:APD), by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Advanced Technology Program (ATP), to conduct research and development on transparent, flexible solar modules for windows and other building integrated applications.

10 Oct 2007

Light-Emitting Flexible Semiconductors Unraveled by Researchers in U.S.

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell nanotechnology researchers has unraveled some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise for light-emitting, flexible semiconductors.

9 Oct 2007

Low-Cost Dose Sensors to be Developed by SMI For Use in Cancer Therapy

Structured Material Industries, Inc., (SMI) will develop compact low-cost dose sensors for use in ion beam and proton beam cancer therapy. High energy beams of ions and protons have been investigated for cancer treatment over the past four decades. Proton beam cancer therapy is fast becoming a mainstream technology in the US, offering the potential for successful cancer treatment, with minimal side effects and minimum damage to adjacent healthy tissue.

9 Oct 2007

Complex Nanoscale Structures Fabricated on Various Substrates using Nanoimprint Lithography

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) has developed into a key technique for the fabrication of polymer nanopatterns and three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures.

8 Oct 2007

Contrinex Developed Diffuse Fibre Optic Sensor Designed for High-Performance Manufacturing Machinery

A 'unique' multiple beam, diffuse fibre optic sensor, designed to solve the problem of capturing, counting and controlling small components produced by modern high-performance manufacturing machinery, has been developed by Contrinex.

8 Oct 2007

Innovative Way of Making Nanomaterials Resulted in Advanced Materials with Exceptional Optical Properties

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. The new fabrication technique, known as soft lithography, offers many significant advantages over existing techniques, including the ability to scale-up the manufacturing process to produce devices in large quantities.

8 Oct 2007

Integrated Solar Modules Provides Mobility

The mobile world reaches its limits every time the power supply runs out. There must surely be huge market potential for devices that take their energy from the daylight just as effortlessly as we breathe oxygen from the air. Integrated solar modules can provide the solution. Integrated solar cells are already being used to power wrist watches and pocket calculators. But a significantly higher output is needed in order to feed power-hungry devices, such as cellphones or palmtops.

5 Oct 2007

Programs Aimed to Improve OCT Imaging Techniques Could Revolutionize Diagnosis of Cancer

Imagine Optic, a French developer of wavefront sensors and optical measurement equipment, is to lead a consortium committed to finding new applications for adaptive optics in bioimaging. The MICADO (Microscopy improved with Adaptive Optics) consortium is a 3-year project bringing together France's leading neuroscience and cellular imaging experts.

5 Oct 2007