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DILAS Delivers New Homogenized Conduction-Cooled, Multi-Bar Module

DILAS, the diode laser company, is now delivering a new conduction-cooled, multi-bar module with a homogeneous top hat optical beam profile, capable of handling up to 500W output in standard wavelengths.

15 Feb 2010

Voxtel Introduces Deschutes BSI Series of Backside-Illuminated APDs

Voxtel has announced the release of its latest product line, the Deschutes BSI series of backside- illuminated APDs.

15 Feb 2010

Clearview Signs Supply Agreement with Optical Components Provider Ignis

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD), a specialist in fiber management solutions for fiber to the premises (FTTp) deployments, and Ignis ASA, a leading international provider of optical components, announced today that they have signed a mutual supply agreement.

15 Feb 2010

ST's Protection and Signal-Termination Device Requires Less Number of Optical Transistors Than Conventional Terminations

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in protection ICs, has announced the world's first device combining field signal-termination and protection functions, enabling designers of industrial control and building-automation equipment to increase system performance and EMI robustness while simultaneously cutting power consumption, size, and heat dissipation.

15 Feb 2010

Lockheed Martin's Beam Control System Focuses High Energy Laser in Lethal Demonstration

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that the Beam Control/Fire Control system for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully aimed the High Energy Laser beam in an experiment Feb. 11, in which a boosting ballistic missile target was destroyed.

15 Feb 2010

Origin of Stem Cells Identified by Biologists Using Microscopic Image of Zebrafish Embryos

Julien Bertrand and Buyung Santoso Track Individual Stem Cells

15 Feb 2010

ORNL Team Develops New Highly Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensor

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity.

15 Feb 2010

Using Gold Nanoparticles Scientists Convert Optical Radiation to Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit

15 Feb 2010

New Diamond Nanowire Device Ideal for Quantum Science and Technology Applications

A diamond-based nanowire device. Researchers used a top-down nanofabrication technique to embed color centers into a variety of machined structures

15 Feb 2010

Science Researchers Develop New Photographic Technology for High-Resolution Images

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the British Heart Foundation at the University of Oxford have developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video – a new technology that is attractive for science, industry and consumer sectors alike.

15 Feb 2010

Researchers Stack Photons Using Quantum Entanglement Technique

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light – photons, which can only exist while flying at an incredible speed and vanish if they touch anything.

15 Feb 2010

NBC Studio to Use Panasonic Plasma Display to Cover Vancouver Olympic Winter Games

Panasonic, a worldwide leader in high definition technology and the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, has been selected to provide its 152-inch Plasma Display Panel to NBC during the network's studio coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games from Vancouver, February 12-28. The announcement was made today by Randy Raddatz, Vice President, Sourcing and Production Logistics, NBC Olympics and Andrew Nelkin, President, Panasonic Professional Display Company.

15 Feb 2010

Sakar Unveils New Crayola Digital Cameras for Kids

For pint-sized photographers, point-and-shoot fun is just a shutter away with three new Crayola-branded camera products from Sakar International. New 5.1 and 2.1 MP digital cameras – each with its own new just-for-kids design plus entertaining Crayola Color Genie photo editing/activity software – are scheduled to ship in Q3, along with a new digital scrapbooking kit that pairs the 2.1 MP camera and software with accessories for dressing up printed photos.

15 Feb 2010

ONTILITY Introduces Online Solar Training Programs

ONTILITY announces Online Solar Installation Training – Solar Electric Systems (S105) class. The course teaches the NABCEP® Entry Level Photovoltaic learning objectives, and includes the lecture and home study portion of ONTILITY’s Institute for Sustainable Power Quality® (ISPQ) accredited solar training course. Most importantly, the new ONTILITY (S105) solar class provides students a more flexible way to obtain the necessary certifications needed in the solar industry.

15 Feb 2010

New TouchSense Solution from Immersion Improves Haptics Fidelity Level

Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR), the leading developer and licensor of haptics technology, announced new solutions to power touch feedback effects in user experience design and applications for mobile handsets and other devices. The company’s piezo-based TouchSense 5000 solution enables true, high-definition haptic effects for significantly improved feedback quality and fidelity, while its TouchSense 4000 solution uses multiple conventional motors to power next-generation effects. Immersion’s technology, which also announced today has shipped in over 100 million phones, offers device makers the ability to design exceptional user experiences that engage the sense of touch and are satisfying, efficient and fun. Mobile World Congress attendees can feel the technology at Immersion’s exhibit in App Planet, Stand # 7B62.

15 Feb 2010