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Leading Renewable Energy Lab Chooses Spire For Solar Module Testing

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that it has received a purchase order for its advanced Single Long Pulse Solar Simulator from the United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) located in Golden, Colorado.

5 Mar 2008

Groundbreaking Partnership to Advance the Development of Photovoltaic Roofing Products

CertainTeed Corporation, a leading North American manufacturer of interior and exterior building products, announced today it has entered into a groundbreaking partnership with SRS Energy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to advance the development of photovoltaic roofing products.

5 Mar 2008

Conference Addressing Important Issues in Photovoltaics and Solar Technologies

Solar Promotion International GmbH, Freiburg Management und Marketing International GmbH (FMMI) and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) announce the debut of the Intersolar North America exhibition and conference, to take place from July 15-17 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

5 Mar 2008

Ultra Fast Framing Camera Offers Ease of Use and High Performance

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced the introduction of the SIM-D Ultra Fast Framing camera - a new compact system combining ease of use, ease of maintenance and high performance.

5 Mar 2008

JDSU Reaches Milestone in the Manufacture of Linear Variable Filters

JDSU announced today it has reached a milestone in the manufacture of Linear Variable Filters (LVF).

5 Mar 2008

Red phosphorescent Supports Market Trend Toward High-Performance OLED Devices

Ciba has developed a deep red phosphorescent OLED emitter that functions optimally in combination with the Novaled PIN OLED™ technology, delivering a lifetime of 50,000 hours at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/sqm. The new material supports the market trend toward high-performance, low-voltage OLED devices for display and lighting applications.

5 Mar 2008

Large-Scale Solar Panels Expected to Lower the Cost of Solar Power

Solar energy is moving into a new phase in Taiwan with the start-up of the country's first, large-scale thin film solar cell manufacturing plant. BOC Lien Hwa, Taiwan's leading electronic gases supplier, has been selected to supply NexPower in Taichung, central Taiwan, with a wide range of high purity gases used in the manufacturing process.

4 Mar 2008

SPD-Smart Armored Vehicle Glazings Provide Greater Security and Comfort

GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems Inc. has acquired a license from Research Frontiers Inc., the developer and licensor of SPD-Smart™ light-control film technology.

4 Mar 2008

First-Ever Demonstration of Manufacturing Solar Cells by Inkjet Printing

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company successfully conducted the first-ever demonstration of manufacturing solar cells by highly efficient inkjet printing.

4 Mar 2008

Pillar Reselling Complete Cisco MDS Family of Fibre Channel Switches and Directors

Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware Storage systems, today announced it has completed an agreement to resell the Cisco® MDS 9000 Series of Fibre Channel storage networking fabric switches and multilayer directors.

4 Mar 2008

Latest Laser-Based Technology for Law Enforcement Applications

Laser Atlanta and MPH Industries (MPH) today announced that MPH will market Laser Atlanta’s SpeedLaser® LIDAR speed detection products to law enforcement in the U.S. Laser Atlanta is the developer of the original SpeedLaser technology, and MPH is among the largest manufacturers of police RADAR and mobile video systems, supplying law enforcement agencies worldwide.

4 Mar 2008

Reflect Scientific Awarded Contract to Provide Imaging Systems to a Major Customer

Reflect Scientific, Inc., announces Image Labs International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reflect Scientific, has been awarded a contract totaling over $1,000,000 to provide the Company's proprietary imaging systems to a major customer.

4 Mar 2008

State-of-the-Art HD-X Light Emitting Diode Video Display

Daktronics Inc of Brookings, S.D., announced today that the University of Minnesota has chosen the company to design, manufacture and install state-of-the-art HD-X light emitting diode (LED) video display technology in the new home of Gopher football, TCF Bank Stadium

4 Mar 2008

Combining Imaging Modalities Provides Excellent Clinical Outcomes

Using a combination of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography for radiation therapy treatment planning in head and neck carcinoma patients provides for excellent, local and regional disease control when compared to CT alone.

4 Mar 2008

Medical University of South Carolina Team Reports Initial CT Findings

In the current issue of the journal Circulation, a research team from the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) Heart & Vascular Center report their initial experience with a novel imaging technique that enables comprehensive diagnosis of heart disease based on a single computerized tomographic (CT) scan.

4 Mar 2008