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SwissINSO Installs New Laboratory for Optical Characterization of Solar Panels

SwissINSO Holding Inc. (OTCBB: SWHN) announced today the expansion of its research and development (R&D) capabilities in partnership with LESO, the solar applied research laboratory of EPFL, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne Switzerland.

15 Mar 2010

Rice University Students Test Mie Theory for Nanoparticles

Calculations are fine, but seeing is believing. That's the thought behind a new paper by Rice University students who decided to put to the test calculations made more than a century ago.

15 Mar 2010

Huawei Honors NeoPhotonics with 'Core Partner' Designation

NeoPhotonics today announced that the company has achieved “Core Partner” status with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., a global leading provider of next generation telecommunications equipment.

15 Mar 2010

RERC Project Awarded to EMCOR Subsidiaries Involves Electrical and Fiber Optics Systems Installation

EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses announced that, as previously reported during its February 2010, Fourth Quarter ’09 Earnings Call, its Dynalectric San Diego and Dynalectric Los Angeles subsidiaries have been awarded contracts for the installation of electrical systems for the Riverside Energy Resource Center in Riverside, California.

15 Mar 2010

Newly Developed Light Activation Technique Boosts Biomedical Research

Using a novel light activation technique, Scripps Research Institute scientists have been able to turn molecules with only a modest ability to fight specific proteins into virtual protein destroyers.

15 Mar 2010

MIT Scientists Use Microscopic Images to Study Living Cells

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded the first microscopic images showing the deadly effects of AMPs, most of which kill by poking holes in bacterial cell membranes.

15 Mar 2010

Wafer Thin OLEDs Make a Big Impact at OSRAMs Stand at Light + Building Show

An impressive OLED installation by the lighting planners of ‘LichtKunstLicht’ is the main attraction on the OSRAM stand at the Light + Building show in Frankfurt from 11 to 16 April 2010. Design objects and luminaires use actual examples to show the range of wafer thin light sources with various colors and shapes.

12 Mar 2010

Solar Cell Manufacturer Suniva Honored as Top Renewable Energy Exporter

Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it has been named “Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year” by the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

12 Mar 2010

Solaris Selects ONELAN Digital Signage for its Reliablity and Ad Hoc Feature

Solaris is a state of the art shopping and entertainment centre, with a multi-screen cinema and concert hall, all under one roof, situated in the centre of Tallinn in Estonia. They wanted to install digital signage.

12 Mar 2010

2-Photon Microscopy Reveals Secret of Inflammation

The secret world of inflammation is slowly being revealed by the application of advanced techniques in microscopy, as shown in a study published March 12 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

12 Mar 2010

NAPCO to Display New Fingerprint Reading Keypad at ISC West 2010 Show

NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of high performance electronic security equipment for over 30 years, today announced it will be introducing many new breakthrough products at the security industry’s key tradeshow, the International Security Conference (ISC) West, which this year will be going on simultaneously with the Public Security Safety Expo.

12 Mar 2010

New Near-Infrared Label VivoTag 680 XL from VisEn Medical

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new VivoTag® 680 XL fluorescent dye for labeling biomolecules in a broad range of in vitro and in vivo imaging applications.

12 Mar 2010

Lockheed Martin to Support U.S. Army's Electro-Optical Fire Control System

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to support the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (TADS/PNVS) and Modernized TADS/PNVS (M-TADS/PNVS) systems on the AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Arizona Support Center.

12 Mar 2010

New Guide from Wiley Includes NMR Spectroscopy and UV Spectroscopy Updates

This valuable guide takes organic chemists through the basic techniques of the organic chemistry lab such as interpretation of infrared spectroscopy

12 Mar 2010

Ventura County Celebrates Solar Project Completion with SPP and Solar Power

The County of Ventura, Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB: SOPW), and Solar Power Partners (“SPP”) held a dedication ceremony on March 10, 2010 at Ventura County’s Saticoy Operations Yard celebrating the completion of the installation of photovoltaic (“PV”) solar systems on two of the County’s buildings.

12 Mar 2010