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Project Endeavors to Create New and More Cost Effective Nanomaterials for Solar Cells

Leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems manufacturer Picosun Oy, Finland, takes part in an EU funded research project aiming at dramatically increasing the efficiency of solar cells.

9 Feb 2009

New Widely Tunable Semiconductor Lasers Offer Wide Range of Applications

A single semiconductor laser chip with world-record wavelength tuning range of 200 nanometers - from 500 to 700 nanometers - has been demonstrated by a research team led by Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University.

8 Feb 2009

Poway-Headquartered Laser Manufacturer Earns 2008 Prism Award

Daylight Solutions is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, the company was presented with a 2008 Prism Award. The Prism Awards recognize the best in innovative technology within the multi-billion dollar photonics industry. Daylight Solutions received a Prism Award in the Laser category for its broadly tunable, CW Mode-hop-free laser system.

6 Feb 2009

Emerging Field of Astrophotonics Shows Promise in Analyzing Light from the Night Sky

Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and manipulate light inside specially-designed materials. The greatest potential, which is described in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, may lie in a laser-based technique that carves out micron-sized light pathways in three dimensions.

5 Feb 2009

Plasma Transistor Could be Used to Make Higher Resolution Flat-Panel Displays

By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, less expensive and higher resolution flat-panel displays.

4 Feb 2009

Zeeko Technologies Expands Research of Optics-Polishing Technology

Zeeko Technologies LLC, a Purdue Research Park-based company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 4) that it will further develop its high-precision polishing technology for optics manufacturing through a Small Business Innovation Research grant.

4 Feb 2009

System Change to Commercialize Remote Light’s Intellectual Property Portfolio of UV Optics

Remote Light, Inc., an optics technology company, has appointed System Change, Inc. to license its extensive portfolio of ultraviolet (UV) light, optics, and fiber optic patents for drinking water and air applications. System Change will help establish Remote Light as a technology licensing company that offers custom design, validation and prototyping services.

4 Feb 2009

New Powerful Technique to Measure Shape and Size of Asteroids

"Knowledge of the sizes and shapes of asteroids is crucial to understanding how, in the early days of our Solar System, dust and pebbles collected together to form larger bodies and how collisions and re-accumulation have since modified them," says Marco Delbo from the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France, who led the study.

4 Feb 2009

JPK Instruments Wins International Prism Award for Photonics Innovation

JPK Instruments, a world leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has won the international Prism Award for Photonics Innovation in the USA. The Berlin-based company managed to beat out its direct competitors following a review and ranking of more than 135 products and applications by a panel of international judges.

4 Feb 2009

Making Supertelescopes Much More Sensitive

Nanotechnologist ir. Chris Lodewijk has succeeded in significantly increasing the sensitivity of the new supertelescopes in Chile. He will receive his PhD on this topic at TU Delft on Monday 2 February.

2 Feb 2009