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Revolutionary Technology Enables Light Sources to Achieve Extreme High Brightness

Energetiq Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of specialized short-wavelength light products for advanced technology applications, will introduce a revolutionary technology at the 2008 SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, February 26-27, that enables light sources to achieve extreme high brightness and power over the broadest spectral range.

20 Feb 2008

SIDECAR Provides Better Images to Earth

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope being built by Northrop Grumman.

20 Feb 2008

Their Costs Far Outweigh the Benefits

Despite increasing popular support for solar photovoltaic panels in the United States, their costs far outweigh the benefits, according to a new analysis by Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and director of the UC Energy Institute.

20 Feb 2008

USAF Awards Boeing to Develop Start-of-the-Art Laser Technology

The Boeing Company has been awarded a $49 million U.S. Air Force contract to advance the state of the art in laser technology.

20 Feb 2008

AMS Technologies Introduces New Line of 840 nm SLEDs

AMS Technologies introduces EXALOS AG's new line of 840 nm Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes (SLEDs).

20 Feb 2008

TopSat Imagery Supporting Disaster Relief Operations

Satellite imagery captured by TopSat, the micro-satellite designed and built by a QinetiQ-led consortium of British firms, has been provided free of charge to the United Nations in response to the recent earthquakes on the Rwandan / Congolese border.

20 Feb 2008

Examining Internal Structure of Materials at High Speed Using X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008

Lensless X-Ray Technique that Take Images of Ultra-Small Structures

X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and features within whole biological cells such as cellular nuclei.

20 Feb 2008

Solar Panel Provides Educational Tool for College Students

Honeywell today announced that Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. has awarded the company a solar project that is expected to save the school at least $200,000 in energy costs over the next 20 years.

20 Feb 2008

LED Bulbs - The Green Bulbs of the Future

When choosing the greenest option for lighting your home or office, look to the new light emitting diode (LED) light bulbs as the next generation green alternative.

20 Feb 2008

Compact WSS Designed to Dynamically Support Unpredictable Network Traffic

JDSU today announced availability of a new wavelength selective switch (WSS) product called the Mini WSS. Half the size of typical WSS offerings, the Mini WSS is designed to provide a compact and low cost solution for traffic management in the metro and access areas of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks.

19 Feb 2008

Global Solar Photovoltaic Market to Reach more than $16 Billion in 2012

As climate change rises on the international agenda, the solar energy industry continues to grow at a very fast pace. However, over the last few years the solar photovoltaic market has been facing one of its biggest challenges.

19 Feb 2008

The Latest Innovations in FTTX Solutions

ADC today announced that it will unveil its expanded line of OmniReach fiber-to-the-x (FTTX) solutions at the 2008 Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference & Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), held February 26-28 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.

19 Feb 2008

Testing and Quality Control for Blu-ray and HD DVD

Testronic Labs has launched an interactive Blu-ray and HD DVD test facility providing third-party, quality-control of high definition software and integrated web capability.

19 Feb 2008

Mitsubishi Electric Announces Sale of EAM-LD and PD Devices for Optical Transmission

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) announced today the development of an electroabsorption modulator laser diode (EAM-LD) device and a photo diode (PD) device, both for 40Gbps optical transmission.

19 Feb 2008