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First Step in Building Optical Computers with Frequencies 100,000 Times Greater than Current Microprocessors

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research team led by Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.

16 Jan 2009

Strasbourg Equipped with One of the Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

OpticsPlanet Announces First Annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award Winners

OpticsPlanet, Inc., the leading optics retailer and a prominent information resource, has announced its first annual OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award winners. After a full year of monitoring, selling, and supporting well over 100,000 items, it has named the companies and products that will be presented with an OpticsPlanet Brilliance Award.

16 Jan 2009

Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Device

Simulation of the electric field surrounding a single MWCNT in vacuum. Dr Tim Wilkinson from the Cambridge University Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough. He has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.

16 Jan 2009

FUJIFILM Acquires Russian Distributor of its Medical and Imaging Products

FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has acquired, through its European local corporation, FUJIFILM Europe GmbH (President Shigehiro Nakajima), all shares in "FUJIFILM-RU" (herefater, Fujifilm Russia), a Russian independent distributor of its medical and imaging products, from Marubeni Corporation.

15 Jan 2009

Leading Jewelry Retailer Selects Lightscape Technologies for Retail Lighting Projects in China and HK

Lightscape Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: LTSC), an operator of outdoor LED billboards and provider of LED solutions, announced today that a leading jewelry retailer in mainland China and Hong Kong, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co. Ltd, has appointed Lightscape to undertake several lighting projects for its retail stores in China and Hong Kong.

15 Jan 2009

Cree Licenses GaN Substrate Technology to MCC

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announces that it has entered into an exclusive patent license agreement, subject to some exceptions, with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC). Under the agreement, MCC has been given the right to manufacture and sell freestanding GaN substrates and the right to enter into similarly-scoped sublicenses, subject to certain conditions.

15 Jan 2009

New Insights into the Way Molecules Absorb and Move Energy

Inexpensive solar cells, vastly improved medical imaging techniques and lighter and more flexible television screens are among the potential applications envisioned for organic electronics.

15 Jan 2009

Engineers Produce New Type of Cloaking Device

A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University engineers has produced a new type of cloaking device, which is significantly more sophisticated at cloaking in a broad range of frequencies.

15 Jan 2009

Industry’s First 4-Amp, Single-Chip Driver for Supercapacitor-Based LED Camera Flash Applications

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high performance, energy efficient, silicon solutions, has introduced the industry's first 4-amp supercapacitor LED flash driver. The new CAT3224 addresses the emerging requirements for true high-intensity LED flash capability in high megapixel camera phones and standalone camera applications.

14 Jan 2009

Universal Display Awarded SBIR Phase III Contract to Develop Flexible OLED Displays

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, today announced that it has received a $1,089,600 extension to a United States Army Communication Electronics Research and Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract

14 Jan 2009

Indian Wells Joins Program Promoting the Deployment of Energy-Efficient LED Lighting.

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE), a market leader in LED lighting, announced that Indian Wells, California, has joined the LED City(r) initiative, an international program that promotes the deployment of energy-efficient LED lighting.

14 Jan 2009

Leadis Technology Launches New LED Driver

Leadis Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: LDIS), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor developer of color display drivers, Power Management and Touch Sensor ICs for mobile consumer electronic devices, today announced sample availability of the LDS8160, a new LED driver featuring its proprietary LED-Sense™ Temperature Compensation engine and its patent-pending PowerLite™ Current Regulator.

14 Jan 2009

Broad Solutions Support Helps Lumolar Deliver RGB Accent Lights

Unusual fish-shaped LED luminaires developed by Toronto-based Lumolar can shift from looking like Chinese lanterns to changing colors like the aurora borealis, with the help of LED solutions support provided by Future Lighting Solutions.

14 Jan 2009

iTool Video Borescope Provides Superior Image for the Most Demanding Inspector

iTool videoscopes are intended for industrial remote visual borescope inspection of the interior of aircraft turbine engines,power generation turbines, piping, boiler tubes, condensers, industrial lines, rotating machinery and other difficult-to-access areas.

14 Jan 2009