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Breakthrough in Solar Cell Technology

Semiconductor insights gained by engineering physics researchers at McMaster University for the telecommunications industry have led to a research breakthrough in the future development of high-efficiency solar cells.

12 Feb 2008

Networks Provide Laser Training Options to Physicians

The Institute for Aesthetic Medicine (IAM) announced today the creation of a nationwide laser-training physician and nurse network for physicians and staffs with aesthetic practices. Aesthetic laser practitioners unable to attend one of IAM's clinical, hands-on certification classes can now have personalized clinical training in a single visit.

12 Feb 2008

Smallest VGA CameraChip Sensor Delivers Best-in-Class Sensitivity

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., the world's largest supplier of CMOS image sensors, today launched the world's smallest VGA CameraChip sensor, the OV7690. The new 1/13-inch VGA sensor features the newest generation of OmniVision's proprietary pixel architecture, OmniPixel3-HS, which delivers almost double the sensitivity and low-light performance (960mV/Lux-sec) of other low cost sensors.

12 Feb 2008

Finest White Binning in the Industry

OSRAM introduces new, advanced fine binning for white LEDs and delivers significant improvements in off-angle color uniformity as well as a typical color rendering index (CRI) of 80+.

12 Feb 2008

Osram Showcase Advanced LED Subsystems

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors will showcase a host of new LED illumination solutions at the 2008 Strategies In Light conference and exhibition, February 11-13, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Booth 206.

12 Feb 2008

Huge Demand for White LEDs from OSRAM

OSRAM has granted a license, in return for an appropriate fee, to PerkinElmer Inc., the American supplier of precision and photonic components, that allows it to manufacture and market white LEDs with conversion technology. The patent for this technology is held by the OSRAM subsidiary OSRAM Opto Semiconductors.

12 Feb 2008

NeoPhotonics Athermal AWG Ideal for Fiber Optic Transmission Systems

NeoPhotonics today announced the release of fully athermal and fully passive Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) MUX/DMUX modules with a 50 GHz channel spacing. These devices have up to 44 channels and incorporate the same, patented stabilization and Photonic Integration Circuit (PIC) technology as the company’s extensive line of 100GHz channel spacing athermal AWGs, which have been shipping in volume to customers around the world since 2004.

12 Feb 2008

Technology Brings Big Screen Entertainment to Mobile Consumer Devices

Vmedia Research, Inc. today unveiled its mobile entertainment media technology at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in conjunction with the announcement of the world’s first Vmedia movie phone by Spice Corp. Ltd.

11 Feb 2008

Lime Energy Replaces 500 Lighting Fixtures at San Francisco International Airport

Lime Energy announced today the completion of the first phase of an energy efficiency retrofit of a major airline's maintenance hangar at San Francisco International Airport.

11 Feb 2008

Combining Fibre Channel Test Support with Traditional Transport Test Capabilities

JDSU today introduced the industry's first field solution to combine 4G and 10G Fibre Channel test support with traditional transport test capabilities such as SONET/SDH, Ethernet and OTN.

11 Feb 2008

New Processor Enables Visually Rich 2D and 3D Applications on Mobile Handsets

STMicroelectronics today announced first results of its collaboration with AMD on next-generation graphics for mobile multimedia. ST's newest mobile application processor, the Nomadik(R) STn8820, integrates AMD's innovative graphics technology to enable visually rich 2D and 3D applications on mobile handsets. Live demonstrations of ST's Nomadik graphic capabilities will be presented at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.

11 Feb 2008

Energizer Launches Light On Demand

Energizer is helping home owners see the dark in a new light by launching the Energizer(R) Light on Demand(TM) line. The first-of-its-kind home lighting product line provides continual lighting by brightening homes on a day-to-day basis, but also stays on when the power goes out.

11 Feb 2008

NASA Announces Research Awards to Improve Safety of Aircrafts

NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, has awarded approximately $300,000 to Luna Innovations Inc., Roanoke, for its proposal, "Active All-fiber-optic Acoustic Airframe Structural Health Monitoring System." and approximately $290,000 to Collier Research Corp., Hampton, for its proposal, "Ultra Efficient Multiscale Prognostic and Diagnostics Tools for Airframe and Propulsion Structures."

11 Feb 2008

Non-Invasive Imaging Technique for Diagnosing Osteoarthritis

Researchers at New York University and Tel Aviv University have developed a non-invasive imaging method that can be used to diagnose and monitor a number of diseases, including osteoarthritis and inter-vertebral disc degeneration, in their early stages. Their work appears in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

11 Feb 2008

New Data in Old Aerial Photographs with Digital Imaging Techniques

A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

11 Feb 2008