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US Air Force Increases Funding for Tandem CIGS Photovoltaics

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state-of-the-art, thin-film photovoltaic materials, announced today that the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted to increase funding of Ascent Solar's development of high-performance thin-film tandem photovoltaics (PV) based on their flexible monolithically integrated CIGS technology.

17 Oct 2007

Bronx Residents Now Have Verizon's FiOS Internet Service at Their Fingertips

Residents of the 1,416-unit Eastchester Heights apartment complex in the Eastchester section of the Bronx now have Verizon's FiOS Internet service at their fingertips, delivered on the nation's most advanced digital all-fiber-optic network right into their homes. With FiOS Internet, they get download speeds of up to 50 Mbps.

17 Oct 2007

Laser Technology Now Available For Patients in St. Louis To Treat Variety of Skin Conditions

The summer months can wreak havoc on our skin, but help is on the way thanks to new laser technology now available at a laser center and plastic surgery practice in St. Louis. Genesis Cosmetic Surgery Center & Laser Center recently upgraded its facility to offer five new laser devices that treat a variety of skin conditions and can be used for such procedures as laser hair removal, acne treatment, and spider vein removal.

17 Oct 2007

U.S. Medical Customer Receives High-Power Laser for Surgical Laser Applications

QPC Lasers, Inc. a world leader in the development and commercialization of high-brightness, high-power semiconductor lasers for the industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it has shipped its first 100-watt Generation III semiconductor laser to a medical customer in the U.S. for a surgical application.

17 Oct 2007

Dow Corning Introduces New Encapsulants to Increase Brightness for the Fast Growing LED market

Dow Corning Corp. today introduced three new two-part high refractive index (HRI) silicone encapsulants to serve the fast-growing light-emitting diode (LED) market.

17 Oct 2007

OLED Specialist teamed with ArcelorMittal to Develop Top-Emitting OLEDs on Flexible Substrates

Organic light emitting diode (OLED) specialist Novaled AG (Dresden, Germany) has teamed with ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel maker, on a project to develop top-emitting OLEDs on flexible substrates for signage and lighting at the steel group's research centre in Liege, Belgium.

17 Oct 2007

Solid-State Laser to Detect Chemical Warfare Agents

Laser Energetics, Inc. (Pink Sheets: LNGT.PK) is pleased to announce the Company's new, all solid- state Alexandrite laser technology, "BrightStar,(TM)" has been selected by the US Army as the technology of choice for a near term "remote sensing "application in detecting chemical warfare agents.

17 Oct 2007

5 Minute Eye Exam Could Detect Multiple Sclerosis

When someone has multiple sclerosis, it's expensive to detect the changes caused by this disease. Researchers at John Hopkins have recently announced that they have found that a five-minute eye exam could be used to help detect changes in the brain caused by multiple sclerosis. Over 400,000 Americans are affected by multiple sclerosis.

17 Oct 2007

A Transistor Containing Quantum Dots Counts Individual Photons

NIST researchers have designed and demonstrated a transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons. The semiconductor device could be integrated easily into electronics for applications such as quantum key distribution (QKD) for 'unbreakable' encryption using single photons

17 Oct 2007

Lumera Released 40-Gbit/sec Electro-Optic Polymer Modulator for Optical Transmission Systems

Lumera Corp. today announced the release of its 40-Gbit/sec electro-optic polymer modulator for optical transmission systems. Lumera claims its modulator combines the lowest drive voltage and the highest bandwidth capabilities available on the market today, while maintaining a smaller footprint than existing electro-optic modulators.

17 Oct 2007

UK Defence Ministry Accepts Opsens' Radsens System Radio and Radar Hazards Application

Opsens Inc. announced the acceptance of RadSens' as a measurement equipment for undertaking RadHaz trials on equipment employing electro-explosive devices (EED) by the Defence Ordnance Safety Group (DOSG), an organization of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.

17 Oct 2007

UV Laser Targets Fabrication of PCB and Wafer Inspection

The new Paladin(TM) Compact 355-4000 from Coherent, Inc. is the first solid-state, ultraviolet laser to deliver 4 Watts of quasi-CW output (at 355 nm) in a small footprint package.

16 Oct 2007

Laser-Based Counter-Measure to Protect Civilian Aircraft From Enemy Missiles

Israel has selected a laser-based counter-measure system to protect civilian aircraft from enemy missiles.

16 Oct 2007

AMS Technologies Announces New Laser Diode Controllers

AMS Technologies announces the market launch of Wavelenght Electronics' new laser diode drivers and temperature controllers (LDTC). Wavelenght Electronics tightly packed the FL500 low noise laser diode driver with...

16 Oct 2007

Cause of Cataracts Pinpointed with AFM Imaging

At the Institut Curie, Simon Scheuring, beneficiary of the Inserm Avenir program and coordinator of the CNRS/Inserm "Atomic force microscopy (AFM) of proteins in native membranes" team, has for the first time observed a diseased tissue at very high resolution using atomic force microscopy (AFM).

16 Oct 2007