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Custom Engineered and Fabricated Sapphire Viewport Windows from Meller Optics

Custom engineered and fabricated sapphire viewport windows that can be metalized, brazed and sealed into Kovar® and stainless steel sleeves are available from Meller Optics, Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island.

From Meller Optics, Inc. 10 Jul 2013

GE Ventures Invests in Development of Pentalum Technologies’ Wind LiDAR Systems

Pentalum Technologies, which develops the SpiDAR, a cost effective wind Light Detection and Ranging system (LiDAR) for remote sensing of wind, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from GE Ventures, the investment arm of GE one of the world's leading suppliers of wind turbines.

10 Jul 2013

NXP Semiconductors Announces New Chip-On-Glass LCD Segment Drivers for VA Displays

NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced two new chip-on-glass (COG) LCD segment drivers – the PCF8538 and PCA8538 – specifically designed for driving vertical alignment (VA) displays. Providing high contrast, true black background, a wide viewing angle, and excellent image quality even at extreme temperatures, VA displays offer many advantages, but typically require a higher LCD supply voltage and higher frame frequency compared to conventional twisted nematic (TN) displays.

From NXP Semiconductors 10 Jul 2013

BiOptix Offers Low Cost Surface Plasmon Resonance Services on 404pi Platform

BiOptix formally announces a unique to the industry research collaboration with the Biophysics Shared Resource Core Facility at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus.

9 Jul 2013

Researchers Develop Optical Equivalent of Electrical Transistors

Light can oscillate in different directions, as we can see in the 3D cinema: Each lens of the glasses only allows light of a particular oscillation direction to pass through. However, changing the polarization direction of light without a large part of it being lost is difficult.

9 Jul 2013

Infra-Red Cameras and EEG Enable Simultaneous Monitoring of Eye Movement and Brain Activity

Latest advances in capturing data on brain activity and eye movement are being combined to open up a host of ‘mindreading’ possibilities for the future. These include the potential development of a system that can detect when drivers are in danger of falling asleep at the wheel.

9 Jul 2013

Innovative Portable Head-Up Display for Smartphone Navigation Apps

Garmin® International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced HUD1, the company’s first portable head-up display for smartphone navigation apps2. HUD is an innovative new way of viewing navigation information in the car, projecting crisp and bright directions onto a transparent film on the windshield or an attached reflector lens.

8 Jul 2013

Nova Introduces Next Generation NovaMARS 6.0 Optical CD Application Development Solution

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd., provider of leading edge stand-alone metrology and the market leader of integrated metrology solutions to the semiconductor process control market, announced today the introduction of its next generation NovaMARS 6.0 optical CD application development solution.

8 Jul 2013

Optical Surfaces Offers Customized High Precision Prisms

Optical Surfaces Ltd. manufacture high quality prisms to customer supplied specifications in quantities ranging from prototypes, through batch runs to production quantities.

6 Jul 2013