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Order Validates OIPT's Position as a Key Supplier in the HB-LED Market

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) is pleased to announce that it has recently won an order from a leading manufacturer of HB-LEDs for three Plasmalab®System133 ICP380 plasma etch tools for use in High Brightness LED (HB-LED) manufacturing.

1 Dec 2008

Research and Markets Announces Addition of Semiconductor Photonics Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Semiconductor Photonics: Nano-Structured Materials and Devices" report to their offering.

1 Dec 2008

X-Ray Lasers in Focus

Radiation from x-ray lasers such as x-ray free electron lasers are of wide interest, as they will allow a large number of applications such as the study of the structure of single molecules.

27 Nov 2008

Harnessing "Force of Light" to Drive Machines

Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun's light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been tried. Now a team led by researchers at the Yale School of Engineering + Applied Science has shown that the force of light indeed can be harnessed to drive machines - when the process is scaled to nano-proportions.

26 Nov 2008

Coating Uses Sunlight to Clean Building Exteriors

Imagine the exterior of your house always looking good, without cleaning or giving it a new coat of paint. This is now possible with paint that can maintain itself and get rid of accumulated dirt on its own.

26 Nov 2008

PI Selects Avago Technologies' Miniature Reflective Encoder for Its Ultrasonic Piezomotors

Avago Technologies has announced that Physik Instrumente (PI), a German manufacturer of piezo ultrasonic drives, has selected its miniature AEDR-8320 high resolution reflective encoder for use in their M-664KCEP vertical drive used in bio-handling dispenser applications.

26 Nov 2008

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Cost-Effective Diffuse Reflectance Accessory

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new Thermo Scientific Diffuse Reflectance Accessory, specially designed to complement the powerful Evolution(TM) 300 UV-Visible spectrophotometer.

25 Nov 2008

Rice University Nanophotonics Pioneer Wins High-Profile National Security Award

Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) by the Department of Defense. Halas is one of just six fellows chosen from more than 650 nominees this year for the prestigious program.

25 Nov 2008

Novel Accessory Creates 'Two-in-One' Reflection- and Transmission High-Temperature XRD System

Modern materials science demands sophisticated tools to perform investigations in defined environments and under controlled temperature conditions. Non-ambient X-ray diffraction (XRD) is established for a wide range of industrial and research applications.

From PANalytical 24 Nov 2008

New Ways of Squeezing Out Greater Efficiency from Solar Photovoltaic Cells

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

24 Nov 2008