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MaxLite Introduces HighBay Lighting Fixtures with Pre-Installed Occupancy Sensors

MaxLite, a global producer and marketer of luminaires and lamps, has introduced the T5 HighBay Lighting Fixtures with occupancy sensors.

By Andy Choi 30 Sep 2011

Leica Microsystems to Incorporate Intelligent Digital Visualization Components into Surgical Products from TrueVision

Leica Microsystems and TrueVision 3D Surgical announced today that Leica will incorporate key components of TrueVision’s 3D intelligent digital visualization and guidance platform into selected Leica Microsystems surgical products.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 29 Sep 2011

SiMPore Win Grant to Develop TEM Imaging for Biomedical Applications

SiMPore Inc., an early-stage nanotechnology company in Rochester, NY, has received a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve phase contrast transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

29 Sep 2011

Norburn Lighting to Introduce WAC Lighting’s SOL OLED Chandelier

WAC Lighting will display its high-end decorative Organic LED (OLED) chandelier Sōl at Norburn Lighting’s counter at the IDS West Show that will be held in Vancouver from September 29th to October 2nd.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Researchers Use LED Lighting to Study Photosynthesis in Bacteria

Research teams at the High Flux Isotope Reactor of the BioSans instrument have devised a new LED lighting tool to study how cyanobacteria react to light.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Exar Launches 8-Channel LED Driver

Exar has announced that it has launched the XRP7618, 8-channel continuous current LED driver. This driver can be used to drive eight strings of multiple LEDs and can be used for backlighting applications in large and medium sized panels.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

Wavelength Electronics Releases USBKIT Interface for Laser Diode and Temperature Control

Wavelength Electronics has launched a new precision USB laser diode and temperature control for its laser control system. The new control is a cost-effective package comprising an USBKIT interface board along with the software.

By Andy Choi 29 Sep 2011

High-Field Open MRI Oasis Installed in King’s Open Imaging Facility

King’s Open Imaging has declared that deployment of the first true open, high-field MRI, Oasis in Salt Lake City located in Utah has been completed. Crane delivery of the magnet of the Oasis was done into King’s Open Imaging Premises at South Redwood Road.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

Novel Nano-Optical Device Breaks Barrier to Handling Nanoparticles

Harvard engineers have developed a novel device called plasmonic nanotweezers that utilize laser light to capture nanoparticles. The new device could facilitate the study and isolation of minute particles such as viruses.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

Researchers Discover Algorithm to Determine Image Focus Error

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have found an algorithm that can retrieve and utilize information from a single image to measure the distance of objects from the focus distance. Until now, only visual systems of animals and human beings could accomplish this.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

GT Crystal Systems Obtains Order for Sapphire Blank for Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope

GT Crystal Systems, a subsidiary of GT Advanced Technologies has obtained an order for a low absorption, huge, optical sapphire blank for the Japan-based Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope (LCGT) program.

By Andy Choi 28 Sep 2011

Carl Zeiss Support Exhibition of Plankton Microscopy Images by Dr. Richard Kirby

Carl Zeiss supports best-selling author to publicise Plankton Images from Royal Society Research Fellow, Dr Richard Kirby, selected by Royal Photographic Society for their International Images for Science Exhibition 2011 and Royal Society Summer Exhibition.

27 Sep 2011

IPHT Sees Photonics as The Most Important Key Technology for The 21st Century

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research and technique development activities of the Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena under the direction of Dr Volker Deckert.

27 Sep 2011

Scientists Devise Electronically Controlled Nanoscale Nonlinear Optical Equipment

Stanford researchers have developed a novel nonlinear optical device that miniaturizes electric-field-induced second harmonic light generation (EFISH) devices down to the size of nanoscale.

By Andy Choi 27 Sep 2011

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Launches Two LED Prototypes for Headlights

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a unit of Siemens, will display its two LED prototypes for headlights in the form of the OSRAM OSTAR Headlamp Pro and the OSLON Black Flat at ISAL to be conducted from 26 to 28 September 2011 in Darmstadt.

By Andy Choi 27 Sep 2011