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Researchers Discover "Repulsive" Light Force that can be Used to Control Components on Silicon Microchips

A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity.

13 Jul 2009

Tower to Manufacture 3PEAKIC's Energy Saving LED Driver ICs

3PEAKIC Microelectronics Inc., a provider of high-end analog and mixed-signal electronic products, and Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (Nasdaq:TSEM)(TASE:TSEM), a leading global specialty foundry, today announced Tower will manufacture 3PEAKIC's energy saving light emitting diode (LED) driver ICs used for backlight LED panels in handheld devices such as cell phones, PDAs and personal navigation devices (PNDs).

13 Jul 2009

Primo Star iLED for Training and Routine Fluorescence Microscopy

The Primo Star iLED microscope from Carl Zeiss is now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence applications in training, routine procedures and basic research.

9 Jul 2009

Acquisition Aimed at Expanding Production Scale of Print Heads for LED Printers

OKI Data Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the conclusion of a basic agreement under which OKI Digital Imaging Corporation (ODI) will acquire the land, buildings, and utilities of the former semiconductor front-end process line (Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture) of the Gunma Development Design and Device Division of Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc.

8 Jul 2009

Michelson Diagnostics Announces the Launch of 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT Scanner

Michelson Diagnostics Limited (MDL), the UK manufacturer of Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners, is pleased to formally announce the launch of its 'VivoSight' Multi-Beam OCT scanner.

8 Jul 2009

Collecting Images Like a Camera But Without a Lens

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

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

Agreement Aimed at Expanding Production Scale of Print Heads for LED Printers

5 Jul 2009

OKI Group Increases LED Production For Print Heads Used in Non-impact Printers

OKI Electric Industry (TOKYO:6703) and OKI Data Corp., which markets under the OKI Printing Solutions brand today announced that the OKI Group will increase its LED (light-emitting diode) production for print heads used in its non-impact printers, and enhance new LED-related businesses.

5 Jul 2009

Revolution In Lighting for the Home and Office

New developments in a substance which emits brilliant light could lead to a revolution in lighting for the home and office in five years, claims a leading UK materials scientist, Professor Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University.

2 Jul 2009