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Beautiful Colour on Butterfly Wings May Help Create Impressive Optic Effects in Paint

Nowhere in nature is there so much beautiful colour as on the wings of butterflies. Scientists, however, are still baffled about exactly how these colours are created.

16 Jan 2008

Using Semiconductor Nanowires to Increase Efficiency of PV Technology

Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp, has developed a strategic partnership with McMaster University's Department of Engineering Physics by way of a research collaboration agreement dated December 18, 2007 between Cleanfield, McMaster and the Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc.. The project is being partially funded by OCE's Centre for Photonics. OCE is a not for profit organization partially funded by the Government of Ontario.

16 Jan 2008

Nano Photovoltaics Team Demonstrates Scalable Silicon Nanowire Based Solar Cell

GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced that scientists on their Nano Photovoltaics (PV) team have demonstrated a scalable silicon nanowire-based solar cell, which has the potential to achieve up to 18% efficiency and be produced at a dramatically lower cost than conventional solar cells. This demonstration represents a promising development in the effort to make PV systems more economically viable for consumers.

16 Jan 2008

Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

Energy Program Focusing on Novel Photovoltaic Materials and Solar Power Plants

MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants.

15 Jan 2008

Aerotech Goniometer Stages Aimed at Optical Component Industry

Aerotech's ANT-20G goniometer stages provide a compact, high speed and high throughput solution for single or multi-axis angular positioning and alignment applications where free access is required at the central point of rotation.

15 Jan 2008

Using Nanocoating to Concentrate Solar Radiation

nCoat, Inc. has announced the signing of an agreement for business collaboration and commercial product development with Sunvention USA, Inc. and BSR Solar Technologies GmbH using nCoat nanotechnology coatings in a Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) system.

10 Jan 2008

Smallest Color Display in the LCD Industry

Kopin Corporation announces smallest color SVGA display (800 x 600 resolution) in the LCD industry. The CyberDisplay SVGA LVS microdisplay has the same size (0.44' diagonal) as Kopin’s current CyberDisplay VGA display (640 x 480 resolution), allowing it to utilize the same optics and housing developed for the VGA display.

8 Jan 2008

Providing Extraordinary Vision to Facilitate Quality Healthcare

Vision-Sciences, Inc., announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to market its new advanced digital, video-based flexible Cystoscope, which is used in conjunction with an integrated “built-in” light source, eliminating the need for a separate camera head, light guide cable and optical coupler.

7 Jan 2008

Flexure-Based Piezo Actuators Provide Virtually Unlimited Resolution and Lifetime

Scientists have used magnetic fields and tiny iron-bearing particles to drive healthy cells to targeted sites in blood vessels. The research, done in animals, may lead to a new method of delivering
cells and genes to repair injured or diseased organs in people.

7 Jan 2008