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First LED Streetlight from BetaLED Rolled Off Production Line

The first production run of the revolutionary LEDway Streetlight from BetaLED, using the latest in light-emitting diode (LED) technology, rolled off Beta Lighting’s manufacturing line Tuesday, August 5.

6 Aug 2008

Office Depot Introduces New Line of Energy Efficient CFLs

Office Depot®, a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced the launch of the office products industry's first exclusive brand of Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) in Office Depot retail stores nationwide and online at www.officedepot.com/buygreen.

6 Aug 2008

New Technology Inspired by the Human Eye Could Push Photographic Image Forward

Digital cameras have transformed the world of photography. Now new technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image forward even more by producing improved images with a wider field of view.

6 Aug 2008

Scientists Created Imaging Device with Layout Based on the Human Eye

By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye.

6 Aug 2008

New Photoemission Spectroscopy Technique to Study Atoms in Ultracold Gas

Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals hidden properties of ultracold atomic gases.

6 Aug 2008

GlacialTech Announces Availability of BR40 LED Light

GlacialTech Inc today announces the availability of BR40 Light Emitting Diode (LED) light - the LED-BR40 Globes come in three model which range in brightness from low, to medium to high. The LED BR40 bulbs are designed to replace the equivalent 80W BR40 globes and lamps available in markets today.

6 Aug 2008

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Preparing for Takeoff

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, has completed the first round of environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These tests ensure the spacecraft is prepared for its mission to collect the highest resolution images and most comprehensive geological data set ever returned from the moon.

5 Aug 2008

A Milestone in Experimental Quantum Mechanics

In a paper published in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature, UCSB physicists Max Hofheinz, John Martinis, and Andrew Cleland documented how they used a superconducting electronic circuit known as a Josephson phase qubit, developed in Martinis's lab, to controllably pump microwave photons, one at a time, into a superconducting microwave resonator.

5 Aug 2008

Federal President Visits Winners of the 2007 German Future Prize

The Federal President of Germany, Horst Köhler, and his wife Eva Luise Köhler, accompanied by Bavarian Minister of State Dr. Beate Merk, today visited the winners of the 2007 German Future Prize. Dr. Klaus Streubel, Dr. Stefan Illek (both of OSRAM) and Dr. Andreas Bräuer (of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering) gave a progress report on
the award-winning project “Light from crystals – light emitting diodes shape our daily lives”.

5 Aug 2008

Solar Cells of the Future May Look Totally Black to the Human Eye

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Borealis MLS System an Ideal Addition to the Spectacular Bird's Nest

PolyBrite International today announced that its Borealis Modular Lighting System (MLS) was installed in the channel letters for the entrance ways for the premiere stadium for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China! The 10' 2" tall letters, A through L will designate each section of the stadium.

4 Aug 2008

Sunovia Energy Acquires Exclusive Rights to LED Lighting Patents

Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc., a renewable energy and energy conservation company, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive rights to patents that allow it to expand its existing product offering into the extended-life and security LED lighting markets.

4 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Introduces ORION PLUS Helium Ion Microscope

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 meeting and exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, introduced a new, improved Helium Ion Microscope called the ORION® PLUS.

4 Aug 2008

Third Column Makes NVision 40 Even More Versatile

To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation.

4 Aug 2008

New Class of SEM Centered on Unique GEMINI Technology

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting and Exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT is introducing a new class of SEM: SIGMA. Growing customer demand for ease of use and class leading X-ray and analytical geometry took center stage when the product was developed.

4 Aug 2008