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New Calibration Expands Hubble's Capability

A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology has expanded the Hubble Space Telescope's capability without the need for new instruments or billions of dollars.

25 Mar 2009

Carl Zeiss Introduces a New, Highly Flexible CrossBeam Workstation

Today, Carl Zeiss SMT introduced its newly developed AURIGA™ CrossBeam® (FIB-SEM) work-station. As one of the pioneers in developing this class of instruments, and with more than 8 years of FIB-SEM experience, the company incorporated a huge number of innovations in the new AURIGA.

25 Mar 2009

New Phantom v640 Targeted at Industrial Applications Demanding High-Resolution, High-Speed Images

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, today unveiled the Phantom® v640, a four megapixel digital high-speed camera offering six gigapixel-per-second throughput and enhanced light sensitivity.

From Vision Research 25 Mar 2009

World's Longest Active Optical Cable to Meet Design Demands of Data Centers

Luxtera today launched the world's longest Active Optical Cable (AOC), Blazar. Extending up to four kilometers, this 40 Gigabit InfiniBand and Ethernet-ready cable meets the growing demand from data centers for long range connectivity.

23 Mar 2009

New Lens from Carl Zeiss for Image Processing in Industrial Applications

The new lens from Carl Zeiss for image processing in industrial applications, the Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZF, establishes new standards: thanks to its outstanding correction of chromatic aberration, the Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZF enables results without color fringes even in the difficult light conditions in production halls.

20 Mar 2009

Researchers Designed New High-Performing Photoconducting Material Using Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture of very powerful photodetectors needs to be improved before they can qualify for solid green status.

18 Mar 2009

Machine Vision Technology Gives Solar Cell Manufacturers New Opportunities to Increase Productivity and Lower Costs

DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA), a global leader in machine vision technology, today announced its entrance into the solar cell inspection market. The company's efficiencies and expertise in area scan, line scan, and embedded processing for inspection in the flat-panel display industry are now being successfully applied to solar cell inspection, resulting in high quality, yet cost-effective inspection capabilities for the solar cell industry.

18 Mar 2009

Lambda Research Corporation Delivers TracePro 5.0 Optomechanical Design Software

Lambda Research Corporation announces the release of TracePro® 5.0, the newest version of its leading optomechanical design software. TracePro 5.0 provides an all new interface for modeling optical sources.

18 Mar 2009

Olympus Introduces New Water Immersion Objective Specifically Designed for Multiphoton Imaging

Olympus has introduced a new 25x water immersion objective specifically designed for multiphoton imaging. It offers researchers outstanding deep-imaging and high resolution performance with the Olympus FluoView FV1000MPE multiphoton laser-scanning microscope system.

17 Mar 2009

Himax Announces CMOS Image Sensor Shipments

Himax Technologies, Inc. ("Himax" or "Company") (Nasdaq:HIMX) today announced that in less than two years since the company established its CMOS image sensor team, it has launched 3-mega-pixel, 2-mega-pixel and VGA sensors and will soon commence small-scale commercial shipments to one of the world's leading cell phone camera module manufacturers. The Company expects the product segment to ramp in the second half of the year.

11 Mar 2009