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Revolutionary EFB Technology Wins the Prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award

OKI Printing Solutions today announced that its revolutionary Epi Film Bonding (EFB) technology has been awarded the most prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.

25 Feb 2008

Lab Demonstrations with Significant Implications for the Future Development of PIC

Infinera is today announcing the results of two lab demonstrations with significant implications for the future development path of photonic integration and high-capacity optical networks.

23 Feb 2008

Report Offers Insight into Nanophotonic Materials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Nanophotonic Materials: Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials” to their offering.

23 Feb 2008

Anode Coating Increases Solar Cell Efficiency

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California's Mojave Desert could power all of the United States' electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications.

23 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

New Cornell Electron Microscope Takes Color Pictures

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.

21 Feb 2008

Solar Cell Efficiency Boosted by Nanoparticles

The electrons in nanoparticles of noble metal oscillate together apace with the frequency of the light. This phenomenon can be exploited to produce better and cheaper solar cells, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have shown.

21 Feb 2008

World’s First MRI-Compatible Image-Guided Surgical Robot

Johnson Medtech, the medical products network of Johnson Electric, one of the world’s largest providers of motion actuators, today announced its participation in creating the neuroArm, the world’s first MRI-compatible image-guided surgical robot capable of both microsurgery and stereotaxy.

21 Feb 2008

Revolutionary Technology Enables Light Sources to Achieve Extreme High Brightness

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for advanced technology applications, will introduce a revolutionary technology at the 2008 SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, February 26-27, that enables light sources to achieve extreme high brightness and power over the broadest spectral range.

20 Feb 2008

Examining Internal Structure of Materials at High Speed Using X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008