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US Seismic Systems Ships Commercial Optical Seismic Array

An Acorn Energy company, US Seismic Systems declared the development as well as shipment of massive commercial high temperature down-hole fiber-optic seismic array in the world.

4 Jul 2012

Princeton Instruments Announces Appointments to Sales & Marketing Team

Princeton Instruments (PI), a market leader in scientific cameras, spectrographs, and optics, is pleased to announce two recent appointments to its Sales & Marketing team.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 1 Jul 2012

UW Researchers Achieve High-Energy Light Generation

Following a 10-year long effort, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) lab have come up with a potential solution that can address the challenging issue in the electronics industry. Two engineers from UW have introduced Zplasma, a startup that will generate high-energy light required for creating next generation of microchips.

30 Jun 2012

Successful Demonstration of World's First Practical Invisibility Cloak

Fractal Antenna Systems Inc. today announced successful demonstration of the world's first practical invisibility cloak, at microwave frequencies. The device clearly shows the ability to "see through to the other side" for large, 3-Dimensional objects, thus rendering them invisible over a wide frequency range.

28 Jun 2012

New Technique to Create Rewritable Computer Chips Using Laser Light

Scientists from the University of California Berkeley and The City College of New York have achieved a significant progress towards the realization of quantum computing by finding a method to produce rewritable computer chips utilizing a light beam.

28 Jun 2012

Researchers Create Nano-Scale 3D Optical Cavities Using Metamaterials

A research team directed by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California Berkeley has created nano-scale three-dimensional (3D) optical cavities that are capable of generating the most powerful nanolaser beams.

28 Jun 2012