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OSRAM’s LED Research Team Wins German Future Prize 2007

For outstanding research work on innovative lighting technologies Dr. Klaus Streubel and Dr. Stefan Illek from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, together with Dr. Andreas Bräuer from the Fraunhofer Institute for Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, were awarded this year’s prize for technology and innovation from the President of Germany. The German Future Prize for 2007 was awarded specifically for thin-film chip technology and its application in the Ostar family of LEDs.

8 Dec 2007

New Laser Delivers Power and Beam Quality Ideal for Micromachining Applications

Coherent, Inc. has introduced the AVIA™ 532-38, a diode-pumped, solid state laser which delivers over 38 W of output at 532 nm (at 120 kHz) with a pulsewidth of only 45 nsec.

8 Dec 2007

Stanford Researchers Develop Quantum Light Switch

Infinitely secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a hat. Programs to decrypt complicated enemy secrets. Optical data connections up to 100 times faster than current technology allows.

7 Dec 2007

Breakthrough Shines a Light on Supercomputers

IBM researchers report a significant advance in the quest to send information between multiple cores - “brains” - on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on wires.

7 Dec 2007

Images Sheds New Light About Solar Wind

Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.

6 Dec 2007

Foundation Commits Support for Development and Construction of Thirty-Meter Telescope

The California Institute of Technology and the University of California have received a $200 million commitment over nine years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation toward the further development and construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT). Funding under this commitment will be shared equally between the two universities, with matching gifts from the two institutions expected to bring the total to $300 million. When built, TMT will be the largest telescope in the world.

6 Dec 2007

Significant Milestone For the Hubble Space Telescope Successor

A significant milestone for the Hubble Space Telescope successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is on course to be reached before Christmas with the testing of the verification model of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

6 Dec 2007