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Carl Zeiss Introduces a New, Highly Flexible CrossBeam Workstation

Today, Carl Zeiss SMT introduced its newly developed AURIGA™ CrossBeam® (FIB-SEM) work-station. As one of the pioneers in developing this class of instruments, and with more than 8 years of FIB-SEM experience, the company incorporated a huge number of innovations in the new AURIGA.

25 Mar 2009

New Phantom v640 Targeted at Industrial Applications Demanding High-Resolution, High-Speed Images

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, today unveiled the Phantom® v640, a four megapixel digital high-speed camera offering six gigapixel-per-second throughput and enhanced light sensitivity.

From Vision Research 25 Mar 2009

Two Lasers May be Better than One When Attacking Cancer Cells

Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Rice's H.S. Cameron Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an authority on heat transfer and fluid flow, and doctoral student Jerry Vera are using computer simulations to quantify the effect of heating nanoparticles with near-infrared lasers to kill cancer tumors without damaging healthy tissue.

25 Mar 2009

New Surface Treatment that Boosts Light Absorption of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009

High-Tech Photonics Exhibition to Include Special Section

A high-tech Photonics exhibition, which is to be held at Expocentre (Moscow) on April 20 - 23, 2009, will include a special section. It will be completely devoted to laser nanotechnologies, which are considerably transforming the image of modern electronics.

20 Mar 2009

Researchers Designed New High-Performing Photoconducting Material Using Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture of very powerful photodetectors needs to be improved before they can qualify for solid green status.

18 Mar 2009

nLIGHT Introduces New Line of Photodarkening Resistant Ytterbium Fibers

nLIGHT Corporation (nLIGHT) announced today the availability of new highly doped, photodarkening resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent (%) higher absorption at 920 nanometer (nm) and pump conversion efficiencies routinely over 75 %.

18 Mar 2009

OFC/NFOEC Features Breakthroughs in Next-Generation Metamaterials and Optical Communications

The world's largest international conference on optical communications begins next week and continues from March 22-26 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the premier meeting where experts from industry and academia intersect and share their results, experiences, and insights on the future of electronic and wireless communication and the optical technologies that will enable it.

17 Mar 2009

Step Toward Ideally Efficient Semiconductor Optical Devices such as LEDs

Japanese Researchers have discovered the phenomenon that more than 50% of the spontaneous emission light generated in semiconductors with microscopic V-grooves is emitted into the air.

17 Mar 2009

New Tool to Enhance the Way Computer Chips, LEDs and Transistors are Built

By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have for the first time converted the highest frequency sounds into light by reversing a process that converts electrical signals to sound.

16 Mar 2009