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EPFL Professor Appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Dynamics Journal

Professor Majed Chergui has been appointed Editor-in-chief of the open-access and online-only journal recently jointly created by the American Institute of Physics and the American Crystallographic Association.

15 Jul 2013

New Technique to View Hidden Objects by Controlling Light Scattering Using Holography

Recently, a popular article demonstrated that opaque glass becomes transparent as transparent tape is applied to the glass. The scientific principle is that light was less scattered as the rough surface of the opaque glass is filled by transparent tape. Professor Yong Keun Park from KAIST’s Department of Physics, in a joint research with MIT Spectroscopy Lab, has developed the technology to easily control light scattering using holography. Their results are published on Nature’s Scientific Report May 29th online edition.

12 Jul 2013

New 20-Element Photodiode from Opto Diode - For Electron Detection and Bolometry Applications

Opto Diode, a division of ITW, and a member of the ITW Photonics Group, announces the second in the AXUV series of multi-element photodiodes. The new 20-element AXUV20ELG features a 22-pin, dual in-line package with 100 percent internal quantum efficiency (QE).

From Opto Diode Corp. 11 Jul 2013

New System Pits Light Waves Against Light Waves

There are several ways to “trap” a beam of light — usually with mirrors, other reflective surfaces, or high-tech materials such as photonic crystals. But now researchers at MIT have discovered a new method to trap light that could find a wide variety of applications.

11 Jul 2013

Precision Optics Joins Photonics Online Web Community

Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. (the "Company") announces that it has joined the Photonics Online business-to-business e-commerce platform (www.photonicsonline.com), a web community serving the optics and photonics industry since 1997 by providing technical information about the laser, optics, optoelectronics, fiber optics and imaging industries.

From Precision Optics Corp - Poc 11 Jul 2013

iWatt’s New 8-Channel LED Backlight Driver Improves Screen Performance in LCD TVs

iWatt Inc., a leading provider of digital-centric power management integrated circuits (ICs), today debuted its new 8-channel LED backlight driver designed to deliver better screen performance and lower cost in next-generation 2D and 3D LCD TVs.

10 Jul 2013

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

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