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Resolve Optics Forensic UV Lens Helps Police Fight Crime in China

Resolve Optics Ltd. has announced that the Beijing Huaan Xunchi Police Equipment Co. Ltd (Beijing, China) has selected its Model 228 Forensic UV Lens to help expand sales of its Reflected UV Imaging System (RUVIS) scope that are used by Chinese police forces for forensic and crime scene investigations.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 26 Mar 2009

Elsevier Announces the Launch of Innovation Explorers

Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Innovation Explorers, an online community of 300 researchers from 69 countries.

26 Mar 2009

New Calibration Expands Hubble's Capability

A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope's capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars.

25 Mar 2009

Carl Zeiss Introduces a New, Highly Flexible CrossBeam Workstation

Today, Carl Zeiss SMT introduced its newly developed AURIGA™ CrossBeam® (FIB-SEM) work-station. As one of the pioneers in developing this class of instruments, and with more than 8 years of FIB-SEM experience, the company incorporated a huge number of innovations in the new AURIGA.

25 Mar 2009

New Phantom v640 Targeted at Industrial Applications Demanding High-Resolution, High-Speed Images

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, today unveiled the Phantom® v640, a four megapixel digital high-speed camera offering six gigapixel-per-second throughput and enhanced light sensitivity.

From Vision Research 25 Mar 2009

Two Lasers May be Better than One When Attacking Cancer Cells

Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Rice's H.S. Cameron Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an authority on heat transfer and fluid flow, and doctoral student Jerry Vera are using computer simulations to quantify the effect of heating nanoparticles with near-infrared lasers to kill cancer tumors without damaging healthy tissue.

25 Mar 2009

Industrial Laser Sales to Fall 32% in 2009

The industrial laser market will fall 32% in 2009, to the level of 2004, if sales stay at current levels. Sales will return to 2008 levels by 2013, helped by military, biomedical instruments, and energy-related applications.

25 Mar 2009

New Company is Developing Phosphor Products Engineered for Green-Friendly Solid State Lighting Industry

Sarnoff Corporation today announced the creation of Lightscape Materials Inc., the latest in a series of independent company spin-offs. Lightscape Materials has secured $3 Million in Series A funding from Wisepower Co. LTD and Foosung HDS Co. LTD to develop and market components for a breakthrough, green-friendly Light-Emitting Diode (LED) light bulb and a variety of other phosphor light products for new lighting applications.

25 Mar 2009

VoIP Experts Bring PC-to-PC Video Conferencing and Real-Time Mobile Video to VoiceCON

Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS), the leading provider of IP multimedia processing solutions, announced today its plans to demonstrate real-time video, from the desktop to mobile devices at VoiceCON Orlando, March 30-April 2, 2009.

25 Mar 2009

New Way to Produce Electronic Components Can Lead to Flexible Display Screens

Flexible display screens and cheap solar cells can become a reality through research and development in organic electronics. Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

25 Mar 2009

DILAS Offers the Broadest Range of Horizontal Stacked Arrays

DILAS, the diode laser company, offers the broadest range of horizontal stacked arrays, from two through thirteen bars available at 808nm and 940nm.

25 Mar 2009

JDSU Introduces First Monolithically Integrated and Tunable Optical Transceiver

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced the industry's first monolithically integrated and tunable optical transceiver. The JDSU tunable XFP transceiver is 85 percent smaller than previous tunable products, allowing network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to pack more transceiver interfaces into a system or to deploy smaller systems within a network node.

24 Mar 2009

New Surface Treatment that Boosts Light Absorption of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009

EMCORE Corporation Announces New Tunable TOSA 10 Gb/s Optical Component Platform

EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, today announced its plans to release a new full-band tunable TOSA (transmit optical sub-assembly) product line.

24 Mar 2009