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New Solar Cell Materials Lead to Efficiency Gains and Lower Costs

Two grants to ASU for development of new solar energy technologies show how ASU’s solar energy research has grown in new and important ways.

24 Jan 2008

Zecotek Photonics Launches New Computerized High-Resolution Laser Spectrometer

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today officially announced the launch of its new computerized, high-power, high-resolution laser spectrometer. The device was specifically developed to meet a rapidly growing demand for higher precision spectrometry in nano- and bio-technological applications.

24 Jan 2008

First High-Resolution Image of Mercury

One week ago, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975.

24 Jan 2008

Spire Dedicates 50,000 Square Foot Facility to Manufacture Solar Concentrator Cells

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, will provide dedicated, large-scale contract design and manufacturing capabilities to manufacturers of solar concentrator cells within its 50,000 square foot facility in Hudson, New Hampshire.

From Veeco 24 Jan 2008

OTDR Delivers High Performance Fiber Fault Analysis to Field Technicians

Sunrise Telecom(R) Incorporated, a leader in test and measurement solutions for today's telecom, wireless and cable networks, announced the FTT(TM)-1000 Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR).

24 Jan 2008

Carbon Nanotubes Absorbing More than 99.9 Percent of Light

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man.

24 Jan 2008

Researchers Develop Method to Measure Boundaries of Liquid and Solid

However important these liquid/solid boundaries may be, conventional methods cannot measure basic mechanical properties of these interfaces in their natural environments.

24 Jan 2008

Ecology Coatings Increases Public Awareness of Company

Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery, development, and manufacture of nanotechnology-enabled, ultra-violet curable coating materials, today announced that it has retained McCloud Communications to design and execute a comprehensive investor awareness program for expanding its shareholder base and increasing public awareness of the company.

24 Jan 2008

Emcore to Supply Solar Concentrator Photovoltaic Components to Spanish Market

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets, announced today that it will supply its world-leading solar Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) components and systems to the Spanish market through several agreements.

24 Jan 2008

Northrop Grumman Awards Optical Filter Contract to PPGI

Photonic Products Group, Inc., announced today that its INRAD business unit received a follow-on production contract for proprietary ultra-violet (UV) waveband optical filter elements from Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division based in Rolling Meadows, IL. This award is the largest PPGI has received to date from this customer, covering monthly deliveries from February 2008 through July 2009 at double last year's production rate.

23 Jan 2008

Resolve Optics Secure Leadership Position as Supplier of Radiation-Resistant Optics

Resolve Optics Ltd. is a leading designer and supplier of radiation-resistant (non-browning) optics for the electro-nuclear industry and research reactors.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 23 Jan 2008

Flexible Disply Manufacturer Orders Automated Optical Inspection System

NexTech Solutions, Inc. and FAS Holdings Group, LLC, doing business jointly as NexTech FAS, are pleased to announce that plastic electronics leader, Plastic Logic Limited, has placed a follow-up order with the company for NexTStar™, a stand-alone automated optical inspection system (AOI). The NexTStar will be incorporated into Plastic Logic's manufacturing line of flexible organic active matrix displays.

23 Jan 2008

Amtech Enters into Research Agreement to Develop Diffusion Furnace System

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its subsidiary, Tempress® Systems, Inc., has entered into a research agreement to develop an in-line or conveyor diffusion furnace system for the solar industry.

23 Jan 2008

Latest State-of-the-Art FPA Detector Technology to Deliver Leading-Edge Results

Cedip Infrared Systems has announced ORION - an infrared multispectral imaging system capable of producing IR sub-band images at video rate within the SW-MWIR or LWIR regions.

23 Jan 2008

Consarc Opens New PV Division

Consarc Corporation, an Inductotherm Group (IG) Company, has announced the formation of a new division dedicated solely to the Photovoltaic (PV) industry. Consarc, coordinated with the efforts of other IG companies, will apply its 45+ years of experience in advanced vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnace technologies to the mass production and processing of solar grade silicon.

22 Jan 2008