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Zecotek Photonics Announces Market Response to New Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the market response to its new Continuous Wave Narrow-Band Ti: Sapphire Laser, the Tisarius-D-scan narrow-line laser, endorses Zecotek's growing reputation as a provider of leading edge photonic research tools.

15 Jun 2009

Panels with LED Backlights Reached 10.6 Million Units in Q1'09

LED backlights are growing rapidly in large-area (10"+) TFT LCD displays. Panels with LED backlights reached 10.6 million units in Q1'09, up 63% Q/Q and 780% Y/Y, according to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly LED Backlight Panel Shipment + Forecast Report.

14 Jun 2009

Worldwide Shipments of Large Size Flat Panel Displays Grew 2 Percent Y/Y

While "flat is the new up" for many technologies as the global recession continues, current results show that the flat-panel digital signage market continues to grow with larger-size commercial LCD products outpacing shipments of commercial plasma products 2-to-1 in Q1'09.

14 Jun 2009

Guide Provides an Overview of Current Technologies

Our everyday lives are dictated by technical developments, and we will be increasingly moulded and changed by them. We can only actively help to shape the future if we know what awaits us.

10 Jun 2009

Features Hold Great Promise for Electronics and Photonics

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

10 Jun 2009

New, Simpler White LED Shows Promise as a More Efficient and Stable Source of Pure White Light

Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) - those ultra-efficient, long-lived light sources - that emits pure white light.

10 Jun 2009

QD Vision Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Contract

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the U.S. Army as part of its Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD).

9 Jun 2009

New Lighting Technologies Key Player in Energy Efficiency

A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers argues that new lighting technologies can be a key player in the portfolio of strategies needed to promote energy efficiency and to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

9 Jun 2009

High-Brightness, Surface Mount LEDs Provide Excellent Color Uniformity

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC) has expanded its lineup of compact, high-efficiency white light emitting diodes (LEDs) with three devices in PLCC-2 packages in daylight (or cool) white and two warm whites. These white LEDs are among the brightest white LEDs in Toshiba's current LED product line in this form factor.

8 Jun 2009

I2C Programmable XRP7620 Enables Full Color Control in RGBW and RGBA LEDs for Color Mixing Applications

Exar Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAR) today announced the XRP7620, a 4 channel, I2C controlled LED driver with independent software adjustable channel current control.

8 Jun 2009

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