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Plasma Transistor Could be Used to Make Higher Resolution Flat-Panel Displays

By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, less expensive and higher resolution flat-panel displays.

4 Feb 2009

Zeeko Technologies Expands Research of Optics-Polishing Technology

Zeeko Technologies LLC, a Purdue Research Park-based company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 4) that it will further develop its high-precision polishing technology for optics manufacturing through a Small Business Innovation Research grant.

4 Feb 2009

System Change to Commercialize Remote Light’s Intellectual Property Portfolio of UV Optics

Remote Light, Inc., an optics technology company, has appointed System Change, Inc. to license its extensive portfolio of ultraviolet (UV) light, optics, and fiber optic patents for drinking water and air applications. System Change will help establish Remote Light as a technology licensing company that offers custom design, validation and prototyping services.

4 Feb 2009

New Powerful Technique to Measure Shape and Size of Asteroids

"Knowledge of the sizes and shapes of asteroids is crucial to understanding how, in the early days of our Solar System, dust and pebbles collected together to form larger bodies and how collisions and re-accumulation have since modified them," says Marco Delbo from the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France, who led the study.

4 Feb 2009

JPK Instruments Wins International Prism Award for Photonics Innovation

JPK Instruments, a world leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has won the international Prism Award for Photonics Innovation in the USA. The Berlin-based company managed to beat out its direct competitors following a review and ranking of more than 135 products and applications by a panel of international judges.

4 Feb 2009

Making Supertelescopes Much More Sensitive

Nanotechnologist ir. Chris Lodewijk has succeeded in significantly increasing the sensitivity of the new supertelescopes in Chile. He will receive his PhD on this topic at TU Delft on Monday 2 February.

2 Feb 2009

Engineers Achieve World-Record Speeds for Real-Time Signal Processing

Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have achieved world-record speeds for real-time signal processing in an effort to meet ambitious goals set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the first Terabit-scale technology for optical processing. The technology could have widespread ramifications for networking, computing, defense and other industries.

28 Jan 2009

CRi Nuance Demonstration During Spring 2009

LOT are offering a demonstration of the CRi Nuance multispectral imaging system at your site during Spring 2009.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 27 Jan 2009

Camera Commander System Increases Sensor Quality Control with Automated Analysis for Dramatically Reduced Testing Time

Sarnoff Corporation today announced the launch of Camera Commander™, a complete CMOS and CCD imaging device and camera testing system for camera manufacturers and their users.

27 Jan 2009

SiOnyx Boosts CMOS Sensor Team, Opens West Coast Office

SiOnyx, Inc., the leading innovator in shallow junction photonics - a patented semiconductor process coined 'black silicon' that radically alters the photonic properties of semiconductor devices - has added several leading image sensor scientists and engineers to its team and opened an engineering office in Beaverton, Oregon.

27 Jan 2009