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PI Offers New Brochure on Piezo Ceramic Linear Motors

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 28 Oct 2007

EPSRC Has Awarded Group of Researchers to Work on Silicon Photonics

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a grant valued at ?m to a consortium of researchers in the UK, led by the University of Surrey, to work on Silicon Photonics.

28 Oct 2007

Wanted: Salmon Sperm - To be Used for Light Research

A University of Cincinnati professor is doing research for the U.S. Air Force, attempting to bring salmon sperm into the mix of biological materials used to intensify light-emitting diodes.

28 Oct 2007

SMI Receives Funding to Develop a Fiber Optic Etalon Pressure System

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) reports that it has received NASA Phase I SBIR funding to investigate and develop a fiber-optic etalon pressure sensor system with high thermal and mechanical stabilities.

27 Oct 2007

Lockheed Martin Successfully Completed Paveway II DMLGB

Lockheed Martin successfully completed the paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb (DMLGB) First Article Test program and is now the only qualified source for delivery of DMLGB kits to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

27 Oct 2007

Nexxus Lighting Closes Merger Transaction with Advanced Lighting Systems

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ CAPITAL:NEXS) today announced that it has closed the previously announced merger of LED and fiber optic lighting manufacturer, Advanced Lighting Systems, Inc. ("ALS"), with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexxus Lighting. The newly merged company, Advanced Lighting Systems, LLC, will continue to operate out of ALS' manufacturing facility in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

27 Oct 2007

Patent Pending VectorJet Laser Marking Technology

The Sabreen Group, Inc. announces its Patent Pending VectorJet™ Laser Marking Technology that achieves unprecedented “dark-on-light” contrast, line edge detail, and marking speed on Acetals, and many more plastics that have traditionally been difficult, if not impossible, to laser mark.

27 Oct 2007

Creaform Launches Ultra-High Accuracy Handheld Laser Scanner

Creaform, a leader in the development and integration of 3D laser scan digital technologies, announces the launch of the EXAscan self-positioning handheld laser scanner. The latest addition to the successful Handyscan 3D line, the cost-effective, portable EXAscan is ideal for detailed laser scanning applications such as inspection and reverse-engineering that require high resolution and accuracy.

27 Oct 2007

Physicists Demonstrated Superconducting Quantum-Computing Cable

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new component, known as a superconducting quantum-computing cable, for potential ultra-powerful computers of the future.

27 Oct 2007

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Wins Free Electron Laser Prize

Ilan Ben-Zvi, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the 2007 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize along with James Rosenzweig of the University of California-Los Angeles. Sponsored by the International Free Electron Laser Conference, which was held this year in Novosibirsk, Russia, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $2,500 for each recipient.

27 Oct 2007

Cutting-Edge Laser Innovations Award

Call for international Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis - November 30, 2007 is Deadline for Submissions

27 Oct 2007

Cutting-Edge Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility Available to Researchers

A $41 million national research facility to provide cutting-edge microscopy and microanalysis capability to all Australian researcherswas launched by the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, at the University of Sydney today (27 September 2007).

27 Oct 2007

Low-Cost Robotic Device Enabling Digital Camera to Produce Gigapixel Shots

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans.

27 Oct 2007

Artificial Cornea To Save Eyesight

Every year, in Germany alone, around 7000 people wait for a new cornea to save their eyesight. But donor corneas are in short supply. In an EU project, researchers have developed an artificial cornea which is to be clinically tested in early 2008.

26 Oct 2007

ApNano Materials Announces New Line of Nanotechnology-Based Non-Reflective Optically Black Coatings

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a new line of nanotechnology-based non-reflective, optically black coatings. The new coatings will be used, in the first phase, in solar energy systems and optical application such as high performance optics and lenses.

26 Oct 2007