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SmartPod Luminaire Revolutionizes HID Lighting with up to 60-Percent Energy Savings

HID Laboratories, a provider of intelligent high-intensity lighting solutions, today unveiled the lighting industry's first high-efficiency, high-performance smart lighting and control platform.

16 Jun 2009

Flexible Solar Strips Light Up Campus Bus Shelter

There won't be anymore waiting in the dark at this campus bus shelter. New flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit users.

12 Jun 2009

Researchers Develop New 'Electronic Glue'

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies.

11 Jun 2009

New Report Predicts New Opportunities Rapidly Emerging in Conductive Coatings Market

A new report from NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets, predicts that new opportunities are rapidly emerging in the conductive coatings market as the result of new applications and novel materials.

10 Jun 2009

Sofi Solar Filter Satisfies the Most Rigorous Requirements

Global growth in solar energy production has boosted demand for photovoltaic applications and massively increased the related requirements. In response to the needs of this market of the future, Optics Balzers has developed interference filters satisfying the most rigorous customer-specific requirements, for example for sun simulators.

10 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Supplies Fire-Polished Glass Rods for Efficient Manufacturing of Small Lenses

The fire- polished rods made of specialized glass that the international technology group will be presenting for the first time ever in Europe at "Laser - World of Photonics" can be less than 1 mm in thickness and up to 1000 mm long.

10 Jun 2009

Balloon Flight for Solar Telescope Equipped with Lightweight "Zerodur" Mirror Begins

On Monday, "Sunrise" began its roughly five-day passage over the Arctic Circle. The solar telescope with a 1.1 meter aperture contains a mirror substrate made of the zero expansion glass ceramic "Zerodur" from SCHOTT. Lightweight structures made it possible to reduce the weight of the mirror substrate by around 85 percent.

10 Jun 2009

FRT Introduces New Affordable Optical Tool for Non-Contact Film Thickness Measurements

FRT, a trusted partner for industry-proven metrological surface measuring systems, presents a new optical film thickness measuring tool at this year's Laser 2009 in Munich. The new MicroSpy FT non-destructively measures coatings that transparent or semi-transparent in the visible and near-infrared spectrum of light.

8 Jun 2009

New "Green" Glasses Without Adding Arsenic and Antimony as Refining Agent

The Electronics + Biotech profit center at SCHOTT is now launching a variety of glasses that the company calls "eco Glass" that are manufactured without adding arsenic and antimony as refining agents during the...

8 Jun 2009

New Light-Driven Motor is Simpler and More Promising

Sunflowers track the sun as it moves from east to west. But people usually have to convert sunlight into electricity or heat to put its power to use. Now, a team of University of Florida chemists is the latest to report a new mechanism to transform light straight into motion – albeit at a very, very, very tiny scale.

4 Jun 2009

Featured Equipment

Advanced F-Theta Lenses for Precision Imaging Systems

These F-theta lenses by Avantier are designed for consistent spot size and uniform field curvature correction, ideal for high-resolution imaging applications.

From Avantier Inc.

Off-Axis Parabolic (OAP) Mirrors: Precision Solutions for Advanced Optical Systems

Shanghai Optics provides high-precision off-axis parabolic (OAP) mirrors designed for advanced optical systems, offering superior reflective solutions for applications requiring precise light collimation and focus.

From Shanghai Optics