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OC Oerlikon Sells Optics Business Unit at Balzers

OC Oerlikon is selling its Oerlikon Optics business unit at the Balzers site to the unit's management, supported by local private investors. The corresponding contracts were signed on Friday, October 24, 2008.

27 Oct 2008

Prosilica Introduces High Performance 2-Megapixel Resolution Industrial CCD Camera

Lambda Photometrics are pleased to introduce the Prosilica GE1660 high performance 2-megapixel resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio, industrial CCD camera with Gigabit Ethernet interface.

24 Oct 2008

Significant Supplier in the Fast Emerging Flexible Display and OLED Markets

NexTech Solutions, Inc. and FAS Holdings Group, LLC, jointly doing business as "NexTechFAS," are pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the 4th Global Plastic Electronics Conference and Showcase in Berlin Germany from October 27- 29, 2008. During the conference, they will be featuring their Advantage Series extrusion deposition (ED) system and the NexTStar automated optical inspection (AOI) tool.

23 Oct 2008

Intraocular Lenses Market to Reach $5.0 billion by 2015

Global intraocular lenses market is characterized by ongoing innovations such as presbyopic IOLs, phakic IOLs and aspheric optical IOLs. Additionally, marketing campaigns by leading companies and enhanced training of physicians to implant advanced IOLs are fueling further growth in the market. Intraocular lenses are used primarily in cataract and refractive surgeries as artificial synthetic replacements to the eye's natural lens.

23 Oct 2008

Largest Market for Optical Coatings Worth Estimated US$2.81 Billion in 2008

Thanks to continuous innovations, optical coatings industry is driving new markets and business opportunities with its progressive transformation. The coatings are utilized in various sectors including environmental, chemical, and abrasion resistance; EMI shielding; climate control; biological protection; and high and low temperature operation, in addition to applications in optical fibers and filters.

23 Oct 2008

New Telescope Helps Solve the Bottleneck of Spectral Observation in Astronomy

How has the universe been formed and evolved? What about the Milky Way consisting of tens of billions of stars? These questions have kept people wondering in the whole history of human civilization.

22 Oct 2008

Breakthrough Silicon Technology Selected to Develop Next-Generation Optical Interconnects

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Sun Microsystems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program. Luxtera's technology and silicon fabrication processes will be used to develop next-generation optical interconnects to produce chip-to-chip and intra-chip interconnect technology. This project will provide the computing industry with low–cost, enhanced high performance computer systems.

21 Oct 2008

Most Advanced and Powerful Electron Microscope Installed at McMaster University

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet-capable of unprecedented resolution-has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.

20 Oct 2008

Optical Microcavity Resonance Technique for Detecting Unlabelled Target Molecules

Even very small numbers of deadly infectious agents or allergenic pollen molecules can cause big problems for humans. But detecting such trace amounts is difficult to do fast enough to do any good. Current techniques -- for example, air sampling on filters or slides until enough molecules for a detectible signal or preparing specially tagged molecules for lab experiments -- are more suitable for general research than alerting people to an imminent threat.

20 Oct 2008

Tabletop Microscope Recognized as Top 100 Most Significant Technological Advances for 2008

R+D Magazine has recognized a tabletop microscope developed by a team of Colorado State University and Berkeley researchers at the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Science and Technology as one of the Top 100 most significant technological advances for 2008.

20 Oct 2008