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MODE Solutions 4.0 for Optical Interconnects and Silicon Photonics Applications

Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of MODE Solutions Release 4.0.

12 Mar 2010

Optical Experiments to Detect Quantum Properties in Viruses

The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties in more complex and larger entities, possibly even living organisms.

12 Mar 2010

Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Helps to Analyze Photosynthetic Protein

For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental behavior.

12 Mar 2010

PartTec Signs Agreement to Manufacture and Distribute DOE's Neutron Detector System

PartTec, an Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection equipment, has signed an agreement to manufacture and market an advanced neutron detector system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

12 Mar 2010

LIDAR Supports OSIRIS-REx Mission to Study Birth of Solar System

Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday.

12 Mar 2010

Glass and Fiber Optic Products Have High Demand in Construction, Auto and Other Sectors

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11 Mar 2010

TECNIS Multifocal Lens Now Available for Cataract Surgery

Abbott announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the TECNIS® Multifocal 1-Piece intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract patients with and without presbyopia.

11 Mar 2010

Asia Pacific Biometrics Market Still in Growth Stage

The Asia Pacific biometrics market has made hay against the background of escalating security concerns in the region.

11 Mar 2010

International Symposium Highlights Advances in Spectroscopy

In collaboration with the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), a member organization of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), ASD Inc. helped define the state-of-the-art in the growing field of spectroscopy during the Art, Science and Applications of Reflectance Spectroscopy Symposium held here last week.

11 Mar 2010

SOFI Project Employs GigOptix's Electro-Optic Polymer

GigOptix-Helix AG, subsidiary of Palo Alto, CA based GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB: GGOX), a fabless semiconductor company, that provides electronic engines for the optically connected digital world and other advanced radio frequency (RF) applications today announced that they will participate in the European Union funded project Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits (“SOFI”).

11 Mar 2010