Some 300 engineers and scientists from 15 countries have travelled to Fremantle, Western Australia, to take part in a global overview of the status, progress and way forward for the Square Kilometre Array. To date, this is the largest gathering of people working on the SKA ever organised.
ForceField Energy Inc. ("ForceField"), a designer, seller and distributor of energy products and solutions announced the signing by its award-winning wholly owned subsidiary American Lighting, an LED lighting retrofit contract for the supply and installation of LED lighting products and solutions for the San Diego Community College District to retrofit six different campus locations as well as their Administration Building. The contract has an estimated value of $1.0 million and is expected to be completed by December 31, 2014.
Ford Motor Company is investing in the future as it begins installing LED lighting at manufacturing facilities across the globe. The new lights, valued at more than $25 million, will save energy and money while improving safety and lighting quality.
The clinical study of the iGrow® Hair Growth System titled “The growth of human scalp hair in females using visible red light laser and LED sources” is featured in the October 2014 issue of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, considered the gold standard journal on laser-based technology.
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announced that after flattening the light bulb with Philips SlimStyle, the company has flattened the downlight with the introduction of the Philips SlimSurface LED family of downlights. Providing the illusion of recessed downlighting, but with just a 5/8” surface mount design that is nearly flush with the ceiling, SlimSurface allows lighting to be installed in locations where wall and ceiling clearance can be an issue, such as basements.
TraceSpan™ Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, announced today the release of the IPTV service analysis solution for the GPON Tracer™ 380 handheld tester.
Dongbu HiTek today confirmed that it has been selected by Micrel Inc. to manufacture the Silicon Valley company’s recently introduced camera flash LED drivers for smart phones, tablet computers and digital cameras. Now in volume production, Micrel’s ultra-compact LED drivers are being manufactured with Dongbu HiTek’s specialized 0.18um Analog CMOS process.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. today introduced the industry’s first AC Direct step-dimming LED linear replacement for T8 and T12 fluorescent tubes at the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Convention 2014.
Physicist at the University of Jena together with colleagues from Imperial College London develop ultra-fast semiconductor nano-lasers. As the researcher report in the current issue of the journal of "Nature Physics", they are capable of producing the fastest lasers to date (DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3103).
CANCER RESEARCH UK’s Centre for Drug Development (CDD), in collaboration with the Rising Tide Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit organisation which funds innovative cancer trials, today (TUESDAY) announce a new trial at The Royal Marsden and University College London that could revolutionise how children with one of the deadliest forms of cancer are diagnosed. The news falls in Children’s Cancer Awareness Month, which runs throughout September.
University of Rochester researchers have developed an invisibility cloak by combining four ordinary lenses which can hide objects across a range of angles.
By Alexander Chilton
30 Sep 2014
Fiberguide Industries will exhibit its specialty optical fibers and high power assemblies at Photonex 2014, booth B05. The show takes place October 15 and 16, 2014 at the Ricoh Arena (Coventry, England).
Biophotonic Solutions Inc. (BSI), the world leader in automated laser pulse compression, announces that company founder Dr. Marcos Dantus will give an invited presentation at The Optical Society's (OSA) upcoming Frontiers in Optics (FiO) conference. Scheduled for October 22, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Dantus' talk will cover the Dantus Research Group's work on laser-based standoff detection of explosives.
Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation will promote its TAS7500 family of compact and multipurpose terahertz spectroscopic / imaging systems at SCIX (The Great SCIentific eXchange) to be held from September 28 – October 3 in Reno-Tahoe, NV. The SCIX conference is organized and presented by FACSS, the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies.
In a step that could lead to longer battery life in smartphones and lower power consumption for large-screen televisions, researchers at the University of Michigan have extended the lifetime of blue organic light emitting diodes by a factor of 10.