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Agilent Technologies Expands Use of HPLC Chip to Entire LC Mass Spectrometry Portfolio

Agilent Technologieshas expanded use of its revolutionary, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) chip to its triple quadrupole (QQQ) and quadrupole-time of flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometers.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry-First Lightwave Component Analyzer for Testing Multimode Electro-Optical Components at 850 nm

Agilent Technologies Inc. today demonstrated its latest lightwave component analyzer (LCA), the industry's first to test components at an 850 nm target wavelength.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces World's First Complete Optical Receiver Stress Test Solution

Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a complete optical receiver stress test solution. The Agilent N4917A optical receiver stress test set provides repeatable conformance and characterization test results. Design ...

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Adaptif Photonics

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of Adaptif Photonics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Extends High-Precision Thin-Film Optical Coating Capability

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the installation of a new reactive magnetron thin-film optical coating system from Leybold Optics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Light-sensitive Molecule Heals Itself in the Dark

Sometimes all an overworked molecule needs is a good night's rest. According to a study by physicist Mark Kuzyk and colleagues at Washington State University, a molecule that loses its ability to fluoresce when st...

15 Jul 2007

New Generation of Optical Molecules

The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in Belgium and the Chinese Academy of Science in China.

15 Jul 2007

Using the Intersection of Mathematics and Computational Science to Understand the World

Undergraduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Howard University will now have a chance to pursue research at the intersection of mathematics and computational science, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

15 Jul 2007

Drexel University to Open New State-of-the-Art Facility

At the nanometer scale, composition and characterization of materials leads to new discoveries for researchers around the world.

15 Jul 2007

Tiny Sea Creatures May Provide Foundation for Novel Electronic Devices

The three-dimensional shells of tiny ocean creatures could provide the foundation for novel electronic devices, including gas sensors able to detect pollution faster and more efficiently than conventional devices.

15 Jul 2007

The Art of Engineering

On a college campus, it would be difficult to find two subjects more different from each other than art and engineering.

15 Jul 2007

First Real-Time THz Imaging System

Terahertz (THz) radiation, or far-infrared light, is potentially very useful for security applications, as it can penetrate clothing and other materials to provide images of concealed weapons, drugs, or other objects.

15 Jul 2007

New Technology that Fine-Tunes Light Using Microscopic Artificial Muscles Could Bring New Generation of Color Displays

Scientists have unveiled a new technology that could lead to video displays that faithfully reproduce a fuller range of colors than current models, giving such a life-like viewing experience that it could be hard to go back to your old TV.

15 Jul 2007

South Pole Telescope at Jupiter Achieves First Light

Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations.

15 Jul 2007

Something New About Solitons

Scientists have discovered something new about exotic particles called solitons. Since the 1980s, scientists have known that solitons can carry an electrical charge when traveling through certain organic polymers. A n...

15 Jul 2007