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New Input Method for Mobile Phones and Music Players Employs Optical Sensors

The same inexpensive, but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital music players to be used as their own pointing and gestural input devices, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII).

28 Apr 2010

Major Trends, Opportunities, and Strategic Developments in Global Ophthalmology Devices Market

Global ophthalmology devices and drugs market is witnessing a significant growth due to the increasing incidence and prevalence of eye related disorders such as presbyopia, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy among the aging population.

28 Apr 2010

Scientists Analyze How Brain Responds to Varied Odors Using Advanced Optical Techniques

Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI, part of the Novartis Research Foundation), are unraveling how odors are processed by the brain.

28 Apr 2010

SVTC Now Offers ITAR Compliant Development and Manufacturing Services to Defense Market

SVTC Technologies, the leading commercialization service provider for new, emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, is pleased to announce that it is now offering ITAR compliant development and manufacturing services, allowing customers to develop process technologies and manufacture products with potential defense applications.

28 Apr 2010

Acquisition of Techwell Complements Intersil's Industrial Video Businesses

Intersil Corporation, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors, announced today the closing on April 27, 2010 of its acquisition of Techwell, Inc.

28 Apr 2010

LPP Light Source from EUVA Achieves World's Highest Power Output

Gigaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, today announced that an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source developed by the technology consortium Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association has achieved the world's highest output—104 Watts.

27 Apr 2010

Importance of Optics in Energy Featured in New Supplement Energy Express

New devices that concentrate the sun's rays, increase the efficiency of solar cells, and help to lower the cost of solar energy, are featured in the inaugural issue of Energy Express, a new special bi-monthly supplement to Optics Express, the open-access journal of the Optical Society (OSA). Edited by Bernard Kippelen of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Energy Express launches today and will focus on research that encompasses the science and engineering of light and its impact on sustainable energy development, the environment, and green technologies.

27 Apr 2010