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Advanced Technologies and Global Market for Nanophotonics

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanophotonics- Advanced Technologies and Global Market (2009 - 2014)" report to their offering.

13 Jul 2009

Waste Material from Discarded Televisions could be Recycled and Used in Medicine

Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York.

13 Jul 2009

SES and Tessera Solar Unveils SunCatchers

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in commercial-scale deployments of the units beginning in 2010.

10 Jul 2009

Uni-Pixel Displays Awarded Contract to Develop Roll to Roll Conductor Patterning Process

Uni-Pixel, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: UNXL), the developer of a color display technology called Time Multiplexed Optical Shutter ("TMOS"), today announced that it has joined the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

8 Jul 2009

Large-Area TFT LCD Backlight Optical Film Grew by More than 22 Percent Q/Q

In its newly-released Quarterly Display Optical Film Report, DisplaySearch indicated that Q2'09 demand for large-area TFT LCD backlight optical film grew by more than 22% Q/Q, to 56 million square meters from 45.9 million square meters in Q1'09.

7 Jul 2009

Jenoptik Expands Presence in Asia

Jenoptik's Lasers + Material Processing division will in future be represented in the Asian market with a laser application center, in close cooperation with the Korean company Telstar-Hommel Corp.. Byung-Hoon Im, President and CEO of Telstar-Hommel, and Michael Mertin, CEO of JENOPTIK AG, signed the shareholders agreement for JENOPTIK Korea Corp., on July 2nd. Telstar-Hommel will hold 33.3 percent of shares in the company which is headquartered in Pyeongtaek (Gyeonggi Province). With 66.6 percent, JENOPTIK AG will be the majority shareholder.

7 Jul 2009

New Coherent Quasi-CW UV Laser Delivers Highest Power Yet Available

Two new quasi-CW UV lasers from Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) deliver the highest power currently available for products of this type.

7 Jul 2009

Light-Absorbing Nanowires Making Better Solar Panels

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

7 Jul 2009

Grant to Develop Method for Applying AR Coating Technology Directly Onto Assembled Photovoltaic Solar Modules

XeroCoat Inc. has announced that the United States Department of Energy (US DOE) has awarded the company a grant for a $2.96 million project to develop a method for applying its patented anti-reflective (AR) coating technology directly onto assembled photovoltaic (PV) solar modules.

6 Jul 2009

Oxford Instruments Included in FTSE Green Index

The new FTSE Environmental Opportunities Index identifies companies that are leading the way in low carbon related activities. To make the list, companies must have significant involvement in environmental business activities and must generate at least 20% of revenues from environment related markets.

6 Jul 2009