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New Trace Detector from Morpho Features Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometer

Hardened MobileTrace® detection system designed for extreme environmental conditions and frontline deployment

16 Feb 2010

Network of Telescopes Helps to Study Evolution of Stars

When scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put to work on other stars

16 Feb 2010

Smart Imaging Technologies Introduces New Image-Based Full-Chip Validation Tool

Smart Imaging Technologies has introduced ChipInsight™, an image-based, full-chip validation tool for the production flow of post-RET design validation. The product will be presented at SPIE's Advanced Lithography 2010 conference in San Jose, CA, 21 - 25 February 2010.

16 Feb 2010

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