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New LED Controller Kit from Texas Instruments Supports Multiple Power Configurations

Bringing the intelligence and precision of real-time digital control to expanding LED applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced its new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) DC/DC LED Developer's Kit.

5 May 2010

ATEN Introduces New Compact LCD Console for Network Administrators

ATEN today announced a new compact, PS/2/USB console with an integrated 19" LCD monitor that features a dual rail 1U housing.

5 May 2010

RNHN to Deploy New Fiber Optic Medical Network

The Rural Nebraska Health Care Network (RNHN), a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, announced a pending transaction with Zayo Group LLC and Adesta LLC that will facilitate the deployment of a new $20M fiber optic medical network.

5 May 2010

MAG Forms New Business Unit to Develop Automated Manufacturing Systems for Solar Panels

MAG Industrial Automation Systems is powering up on green energy, announcing the formation of a new Renewable Energy Business unit to design/build automated manufacturing systems for solar panels and wind turbine components.

5 May 2010

LaserMotive Releases Blueprint for New Laser-Based Power System for UAVs

LaserMotive, a leading R&D company specializing in laser power beaming and winner of the NASA-sponsored 2009 Power Beaming Competition, has unveiled its blueprint for creating the first endless power system for unmanned aerial vehicles.

5 May 2010

BT Imaging Announces Industry's First Electrical Wafer Quality Sorter for Solar Cell Manufacturing

BT Imaging Pty Ltd (BTi), the world's leading supplier of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for the photovoltaic manufacturing industry, today announced a breakthrough product for qualifying the electrical quality of as-cut wafers in production.

5 May 2010

Dialight Launches New SafeSite LED High Bay Hazloc Fixture

Dialight, an innovative global leader in LED lighting technology, today announced the debut of its new SafeSite® LED High Bay Fixtures for Hazardous Locations (Hazloc).

5 May 2010

University of Toronto Introduces New Omni-Focus Video Camera

University of Toronto, a world-leading research university, announces a breakthrough development in video camera design.

5 May 2010

New LED-Based Imaging Device for Night Vision

A University of Florida engineering researcher has crafted a nickel-sized imaging device that uses organic light-emitting diode technology similar to that found in cell phone or laptop screens for night vision.

5 May 2010

Cryo-Electron Microscope Produces High-Resolution Image of Virus Structure

UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instance of imaging biological complexes at such a resolution.

5 May 2010

Optical Component Supplier Oclaro Wins Quality Excellence Award from Huawei

Oclaro, Inc.™, a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced that it has received the Quality Excellence Award from Huawei – one of the world's leading manufacturers of equipment for the telecommunications industry.

5 May 2010

Southwestern Power Generating Facility to Install Carmanah’s EverGEN Solar LED Lighting

A power generating facility in the United States is illuminating its perimeter fencing with $1 million (USD) of solar-powered LED streetlights provided by Carmanah Technologies.

5 May 2010

Telestone to Install Wireless Fiber Optic Distribution System in Five Sub-Provinces of Inner Mongolia

Telestone Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: TSTC; "Telestone" or the "Company"), a leading developer of local access network solutions, products, and engineering services, announced today it has secured a new project from China Mobile Communications Corporation's ("CMCC") Inner Mongolia branch to install a Telestone Technologies' Wireless Fiber Optic Distribution System (WFDS(TM)) to provide wi-fi coverage for CMCC customers in five sub-provinces of Inner Mongolia.

5 May 2010

DILAS CTO to Present Paper at Laser Technology Conference

Dr. Jens Biesenbach, Chief Technology Officer from DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH, will present a paper on "Diode Lasers From 410nm to 2200nm and their Applications" on Thursday, May 6, at the Laser Technology Conference that is part of AKL 2010 International Laser Technology Congress in Aachen, Germany.

5 May 2010

LOT-Oriel Now Offers Nanoscale IR from Anasys Instruments

LOT now offer the Nanoscale IR from Anasys Instruments. This breakthrough technology combines key elements of both infrared spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to enable the acquisition of infrared spectra at spatial resolutions well beyond the optical diffraction limit.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 4 May 2010