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First Laser Featured in New Video Released by SPIE

The first laser itself stars in one of the latest video releases in the SPIE anniversary tribute series Advancing the Laser: 50 Years and Into the Future. The laser, invented and successfully fired for the first time on 16 May 1960 by Theodore Maiman, was reactivated by professor and inventor Dan Gelbart (Univ. of British Columbia) at a laser anniversary celebration in Vancouver, Canada, last week.

28 May 2010

Marktech Introduces Toshiba 1109 LEDs Series for Linear and Backlighting Applications

Marktech has expanded its lineup of Toshiba White surface mount LEDs aimed at general and backlighting applications with the release of the Toshiba TLWxK1109 series.

From Marktech Optoelectronics 28 May 2010

New Research Report Analyses Market Potential of 3D TV in China

The rising number of 3D movies released each year has been adding to the number of 3D enabled Theaters and more & more Theaters are now converting to being 3D ready, this has created a desire for 3D content in home.

28 May 2010

Black Solar Cells Can Lure Water Insects

Solar power might be nature's most plentiful and benign source of energy, but shiny black solar cells can lure water insects away from critical breeding areas, a Michigan State University scientist and colleagues warn.

28 May 2010

New Self-Assembly Method Creates Nanoshells with Unique Optical Properties

Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials.

28 May 2010

Leica to Distribute Hamilton’s Laser Products in North America

Hamilton Thorne Ltd. (TSX-V: HTL), a leading provider of advanced laser systems and instruments for the stem cell research and fertility clinic markets, today announces a vendor partnership agreement with Leica Microsystems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, a leading global designer and producer of innovative high-tech precision optics systems for the analysis of microstructures.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 28 May 2010

AUO, SunPower to Build New Solar Cell Manufacturing Facility in Malaysia

AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO" or the "Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) held a meeting of the Board of Directors on May 27, 2010, at which the Board approved the resolution of a joint venture to construct and operate a solar cell manufacturing facility in Malaysia with SunPower Corp., the largest manufacturer of residential and commercial solar systems in the United States.

28 May 2010

New White LED Light from GE for Signage Applications

GE Lighting Solutions has announced the new white Tetra MAX LED light that offers more brightness for channel letter lighting.

27 May 2010

Uni-Pixel's Display and Backlighting Patents Acquired by Rambus

Uni-Pixel, Inc., a production stage company delivering its Clearly Superior™ Performance Engineered Films to the lighting and display, solar, and flexible electronics market segments, today announced that Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, has acquired a portion of Uni-Pixel's award winning intellectual property (IP) portfolio relating to dynamic backlighting, field sequential color displays, and Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter (TMOS™) display technology.

27 May 2010