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GOBI-384 Delivers High-Performance Thermal Imaging for Demanding Industrial and Security Applications

XenICs, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solutions from the LWIR to the visible realm, now offers the GOBI-384, an uncooled microbolometer camera covering the LWIR 8 to 14µm.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 14 Jul 2008

Ultra-Bright LED Lighting Systems Offer Rapid Design and Integration Opportunities

Lamina Lighting Incorporated (Lamina), the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced the introduction of a new line of ultra-bright LED lighting systems that offer fixture manufacturers and lighting designers rapid design and integration opportunities.

11 Jul 2008

Examining Stars and Star Clusters at the Farthest Reaches of Space

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted since the "big bang," and may provide insights into the earliest stages of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago.

10 Jul 2008

New Laser Platform Designed Specifically for Photovoltaic Applications

Deep Photonics Corp., an innovative technology company manufacturing deep ultraviolet fiber laser solutions for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, today announced the introduction of the FLP-266-PPP, a 2 watt Picosecond 266 nm fiber laser featuring adjustable pulse width, pulse burst packets, and variable pulse packet frequency.

10 Jul 2008

Advance Could Lead to Next-Generation Solar Cells

MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods.

8 Jul 2008

New Breakthrough in the Field of Nanophotonics

Led by Sri Sridhar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, a team of researchers from the university's Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level. Utilizing nanomanufacturing processes, the researchers were able to develop an optical microlens with a step-like surface, instead of a smooth surface, that has the capacity to operate at infrared frequencies using the novel phenomenon of negative index refraction.

7 Jul 2008

New Magellan SEM First to Enable Rapid 3D Surface Imaging at Sub-Nanometer Resolution

The Magellan XHR SEM allows scientists and engineers to quickly see things they could not see before, such as 3D surface images at many different angles and at resolutions below one nanometer (about the size of ten hydrogen atoms, side-by-side).

7 Jul 2008

A New Kind of Astronomy using Neutral Atoms Instead of Light

NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.

2 Jul 2008

GLAST Gearing Up for Data from Satellite

Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite.

2 Jul 2008

Understanding and Controlling Optical Damage in Crystals

A new study undertaken by the non lineal optics and wave guides research group belonging to the department of Material Science of the UAM has advanced current understanding as well as the control of optical damage in crystals, offering new ways to increase light-power output of future optical integrated circuits.

2 Jul 2008