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Scientists Create Inexpensive Technique Which Forces Luminescent Polymers to Give Off Polarized Light

UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers.

18 Sep 2007

Small Hill Country Town Outfitted with Extensive Fiber Optics

Rural phone cooperative GVTC Communications has installed fiber-optic lines directly to buildings in the business district of Boerne, placing the small Hill Country town among a small percentage of U.S. cities outfitted with extensive fiber optics.

17 Sep 2007

Submarine pump to make European Debut

Bookham, Inc., a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced that its OceanBrightTM submarine pump module has achieved full qualification. The product, which is used in erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), has commenced volume shipments and is actively deployed in undersea cable systems around the world. It will be shown for the first time in Europe on the Bookham stand (number 17094) at ECOC 2007.

17 Sep 2007

Pioneer Carbon Nanotube-Based Transparent Electrodes

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to transparent conductive films, Clemson University has exclusively licensed this patent to Unidym. Unidym is a leader in the development and manufacture of carbon nanotubes for applications in the electronics industry. Unidym, which recently merged with Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (CNI), possesses a foundational patent portfolio that covers nearly every aspect of carbon nanotube manufacturing and processing.

17 Sep 2007

Revolutionary Optical Technology Reveals New Possibility

MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, today announces that it caters for the majority of the optical MEMS market needs worldwide.

17 Sep 2007

So long to Old Cable, All-Digital FiOS TV Service for New Jerseyans

Tens of thousands more New Jerseyans now have a prime opportunity to say "so long" to their old cable company after Verizon announced today that it is expanding its all-digital FiOS TV service to consumers in parts of 24 additional communities in the state.

16 Sep 2007

Rugged Military Fiber Optic Cable for the United Kingdom

Optical Cable Corporation today announced that its ground tactical fiber optic cable has been fully qualified by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence ("MoD") -- a significant milestone in Optical Cable Corporation's continuing pursuit of excellence as a long-time supplier of rugged military fiber optic cable for the U.S., U.K. and other allied militaries.

16 Sep 2007

Molecular Positronium - Next Generation Gamma-Ray Laser

Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons.

15 Sep 2007

Smaller Computer Chips that Packs More Power

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a way to generate light and reduce damage in a leading candidate for next-generation microelectronics lithography. The technique could help pack more power into smaller computer chips.

15 Sep 2007

Smartlipo - Lunch Hour Liposuction Treatment

Dr. John Bergeron of the Skin & Vein Laser Center is proud to be one of the first doctors in the country trained and certified in the "Smartlipo?quot; procedure and also one of the first to bring the innovative treatment hailed the "lunch hour lipo" in the cosmetic industry to the Houston area.

15 Sep 2007

Object Recognition May Start in the Retina

New evidence from the University of Southern California suggests that there may be dedicated cells in the retina that help compile small bits of information in order to recognize objects.

14 Sep 2007

Brain Responds to Possibility Two Objects Might Collide

International research co-led by professor Alejandro Maiche, of the Department of Basic, Evolutionary and Educational Psychology at the UAB, has put forward the hypothesis that the brain responds to the possibility that two objects might collide, in a different way to how it would react to two objects in movement with divergent trajectories.

14 Sep 2007

Saturn's moon reveals the Yin-Yang of the Solar System

Cassini scientists are poring through hundreds of images returned from the 10 September fly-by of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus.

14 Sep 2007

Construction of the Universe - Lego-like "building block" galaxies

The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early Universe evolved into the massive galaxies of today by coalescing. Nine Lego-like “building block” galaxies initially dete...

14 Sep 2007

Face Recognition in a Surveillance Society

Recent research shows that humans are surprisingly poor at matching a face in a photograph to that seen in real life. The situation is the same with automatic face recognition systems. In today’s surveillance society, correct photo identification is of the utmost importance and with the government’s proposed identity card scheme expected to begin in 200, the ID issue is highly controversial.

14 Sep 2007