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Frost + Sullivan Recognizes MIRTEC with 2009 Product Innovation of the Year Award

Based on its recent analysis of the automated optical inspection (AOI) equipment market, Frost + Sullivan recognizes MIRTEC with the 2009 Global Frost + Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year for its innovative MV-7xi inline AOI system.

22 Jul 2009

Sensacell Announces New Addition to its's Line of Modular Sensor Surface Technology

Sensacell Corporation launches the HSI64-36-RGB module, a new addition to Sensacell's line of Modular Sensor Surface Technology.

22 Jul 2009

Researchers Develop New Blue Light Nanocrystals

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering the effects of global warming.

21 Jul 2009

Zecotek Receives Grant Payment from Singapore Economic Development Board

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), today announced it has received another grant payment under the previously announced Government of Singapore Economic Development Board's (EDB) Research Incentive Scheme for Companies.

21 Jul 2009

Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to smooth metal films.

20 Jul 2009

Artificial Optical Materials that can Bend Light in Unusual Ways

Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and professor at the University of California Berkeley, lead a study in which it was determined that the interactions of light and matter with spacetime, as predicted by general relativity, can be studied using the new breed of artificial optical materials that feature extraordinary abilities to bend light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

20 Jul 2009

'Invisibility Cloak' to Protect Buildings from Earthquakes

Research at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.

20 Jul 2009

Reputation for Designing and Supplying High Performance Specialist Lens Adapters

For applications that require changing the field of view or image format of a lens - Resolve Optics Ltd. has developed a reputation for designing and supplying high performance specialist lens adapters.

20 Jul 2009

Technique will Lead to Better Optical Probes for Studying Electron Dynamics

Scientists at RIKEN have developed a way to measure the wavelike properties of ultrafast (attosecond) light pulses - an important step toward being able to probe the dynamics of electrons, atoms and molecules.

16 Jul 2009

TCZ Receives First Purchase Order from Korean Display Maker

TCZ Pte. Ltd., a joint venture of Cymer, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYMI) and Carl Zeiss SMT AG, announced today that the company has received its first order--from a large Korean display maker--for the TCZ-900A, TCZ's production tool for flat panel display (FPD) fabrication.

16 Jul 2009