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New Type of Flexible Plastic Film

Imagine cleaning out your refrigerator and being able to tell at a glance whether perishable food items have spoiled, because the packaging has changed its color, or being able to tell if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue.

23 Jul 2007

New Device to Make Laser-to-Fiber and Fiber-to-Fiber Connections within Optical Fiber Packages

A new device to make laser-to-fiber and fiber-to-fiber connections within optical fiber packages has been named by R & D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the market in 2006.

22 Jul 2007

Leica Microsystems Wins Third German Business Innovation Award

By winning its third German Business Innovation Award, Leica Microsystems has ultimately established its position at the cutting edge of German innovators.

21 Jul 2007

Leica Microsystems Develops Stefan Hell's Award-Winning STED Microscope

On November 23, 2006, Professor Stefan Hell, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, was presented with the prestigious German Future Award by Federal President Horst Köhler.

21 Jul 2007

Veeco and Leica Microsystems to Collaborate

Veeco Instruments and Leica Microsystems GmbH, a leading designer and manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have finalized a collaboration to drive research in biological and nano-medicine communities.

From Veeco 21 Jul 2007

Max Planck Innovation Concludes Licensing Agreement with Leica Microsystems

Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer agency of the Max Planck Society, Germany's leading basic research organization, has signed a co-exclusive license agreement with Leica Microsystems and Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH for the RESOLFT (reversible saturable optical fluorescent transitions) technology, a method providing molecular scale resolution with visible light and regular lenses for use in microscopy.

21 Jul 2007

New High-Performance Ultrafast Laser Oscillator from Coherent

The Mira HP from Coherent, Inc. is the world's first ultrafast oscillator to deliver more than 3 watts of output power.

21 Jul 2007

Highly Tunable Superparamagnetic Colloidal Photonic Crystals

A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires.

16 Jul 2007

Testing Limits of Plasmonic Technology

In an experiment modeled on the classic “Young’s double slit experiment” and published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, researchers have powerfully reinforced the understanding that surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) move as waves and follow analogous rules.

16 Jul 2007

Scientists Develop Method to Make a Lens-Like Device that Focuses Electromagnetic Waves Down to the Tiniest of Points

Manipulating light waves, or electromagnetic radiation, has led to many technologies, from cameras to lasers to medical imaging machines that can see inside the human body.

16 Jul 2007

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