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Quest for the Ideal Photonic Crystal

Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil.

20 May 2008

BAE to Provide Thermal Imaging Modules for Contract with U.S. Army's Remotely Weapon System

BAE Systems has received a $60 million order to provide thermal imaging modules to Kongsberg Defense + Aerospace AS for its contract with the U.S. Army's Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) II program awarded in August 2007.

19 May 2008

Physicists Developed New Near-Infrared Broadband Laser Materials

A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ranges around triple those of earlier crystals.

19 May 2008

Researchers Have Recently Doubled the Efficiency of Infrared Lasers

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have recently doubled the efficiency of infrared lasers under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers (EMIL) program.

19 May 2008

A Great Compliment to Special Optics Current High N.A. UV Line

Special Optics, Inc., a Navitar company and manufacturer of high precision ultraviolet (UV) optical systems, has expanded their broad range of UV lenses to include a high N.A. UV microscope objective with a numerical aperture of 0.90.

19 May 2008

Key Milestone in Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser Program

The Boeing Company has fired a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft in ground tests for the first time, achieving a key milestone for the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration program.

19 May 2008

What’s Next in Advanced Display

Corning Incorporated will present its perspective on what's next in advanced display during Display Week 2008, the annual conference of the Society for Information Display (SID), held this week in Los Angeles, Calif. Corning has built its leadership position in liquid crystal display (LCD) by identifying existing and emerging technology market demands and translating those into powerful technology solutions that help shape the future of the display industry.

19 May 2008

Manufacturing Technology Enables more Flexible Design of TFT-LCD Panels

NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channel in the Americas, NEC Electronics America, Inc., today announced the successful development of a manufacturing technology that enables more flexible design of thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) panels.

19 May 2008

Single-Chip Solution to Reduce Board Space and Costs for LED Lighting Applications

NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH introduced the world's first microcontroller (MCU), part number uPD78F8024, with a constant high-current driver (HCD). The new HCD/LED MCU can be used in lighting applications that use more than one LED, in industrial control applications featuring stepping motor and solenoid drives, and in switching-mode power supplies.

19 May 2008

Praxair to Supply of Industrial Gases for Solar Manufacturing Facility

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Praxair, Inc. for the supply of bulk industrial gases for its new multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon.

19 May 2008

World's First Curved Display Technology

AU Optronics Corp. is unveiling today the world's first* Curved Display Technology on glass substrate. This technology will be exhibited at SID (Society for Information Display) Display Week 2008, from May 20 through 22 in Los Angeles, California. In addition, a series of mobile device technologies will be showcased for the first time at the exhibition.

19 May 2008

Breakthrough Greatly Enhance Applications Ranging from Security Screening to Chemical Sensing

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays.

19 May 2008

Optimizing Glass in Order to Increase the Lifetime of Fiber Lasers

Researchers have found new methods for optimizing glass in order to increase the lifetime of fiber lasers. The trend is to produce fiber lasers with higher output powers, which places great demands on the optical fiber. This has been shown at Mid Sweden University in Sweden.

19 May 2008

Innovation Significantly Reduces Cost of Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells

IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity.

19 May 2008

Agreement Granting Sony Right to Use 3M Optical Film Technology

3M announced today that 3M and Sony Corporation have signed a license agreement that grants Sony the right to use certain 3M optical film technology in its prismatic films for LCD TV products.

17 May 2008