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Laser Technology in Focus Again at HANNOVER MESSE 2009

New trends and applications from various high-tech areas will be presented again this year by the exhibitors of the Product Market "Micro, Nano + Materials" at MicroTechnology/HANNOVER MESSE from April 20 to 24, 2009 in Hanover, Germany. .

19 Jan 2009

SMI Offers ZnO Deposition Development Services for Transparent Contact Work as used with LEDs

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) announces today that it has opened its application lab facilities for the MOCVD growth of ZnO based films for transparent contact work as used with LEDs and photovoltaics, as well as ZnO films for transparent and power transistors.

18 Jan 2009

First Step in Building Optical Computers with Frequencies 100,000 Times Greater than Current Microprocessors

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research team led by Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.

16 Jan 2009

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

Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Device

Simulation of the electric field surrounding a single MWCNT in vacuum. Dr Tim Wilkinson from the Cambridge University Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough. He has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.

16 Jan 2009

BetaLED Luminaires Key to Efficient Lighting at Parking Structure

BetaLED luminaires were unveiled yesterday at the University of California, Davis' Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center For The Performing Arts' parking structure, Davis, CA. LED fixtures, featuring activity-sensing technology adapted and developed at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) at UC Davis, provide enhanced nighttime visibility and reduce energy consumption by up to 80 percent.

13 Jan 2009

Flexible photodetectors Could Revolutionize Photography and Other Imaging Technologies

Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. University of Wisconsin-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues have developed a flexible light-sensitive material that could revolutionize photography and other imaging technologies.

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

DOE Approves Construction Start of NSLS-II Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory

To advance its science mission that focuses on critical national challenges, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the construction start of the state-of-the-art National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

12 Jan 2009

Infrared Mapping of Strain Fields in Semiconductors

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

11 Jan 2009