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Thin Film Solar Technology Company Receives Funding to Advance Solar Technology

Bloo Solar announced today that is has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

28 Feb 2008

Ullmanns Fibres - A Convenient Source of Information for Scientists and Engineers

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Ullmann's Fibres” to their offering.

27 Feb 2008

Breakthrough Optical Technology Enables Creation of Denser DWDM Transport

JDSU today announced that is has invented the first nano wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology. The Nano WSS includes technology extracted from JDSU’s core Mini WSS technology, and will enable JDSU to develop denser and more highly integrated optical solutions, such as the AON Superblade, a single-slot blade solution that JDSU also announced today.

26 Feb 2008

New AON Superblade Reduces Size and Power Requirements of Optical Components

JDSU today announced that it is creating a single-slot blade solution for delivering all major functions required for optical network transport, called the Agile Optical Network (AON) Superblade.

26 Feb 2008

Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics Will Reach $3.8 Billion by 2015

Materials for use in thin-film and organic photovoltaics (PV) will reach $3.8 billion by 2015, according to a new study by NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm.

25 Feb 2008

Revolutionary EFB Technology Wins the Prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award

OKI Printing Solutions today announced that its revolutionary Epi Film Bonding (EFB) technology has been awarded the most prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.

25 Feb 2008

Lab Demonstrations with Significant Implications for the Future Development of PIC

Infinera is today announcing the results of two lab demonstrations with significant implications for the future development path of photonic integration and high-capacity optical networks.

23 Feb 2008

Report Offers Insight into Nanophotonic Materials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Nanophotonic Materials: Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials” to their offering.

23 Feb 2008

Anode Coating Increases Solar Cell Efficiency

The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California's Mojave Desert could power all of the United States' electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications.

23 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

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