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Zecotek Receives Grant Payment From the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced it has received grant payments from the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).

3 Mar 2009

World's First Proven Ultrasound Holographic Imaging Allows Correction of Subsurface Defects

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today joined with Northwestern University to announce successful demonstration of a unique ultrasound holography approach that enables scientists to view the tiniest of buried structures.

3 Mar 2009

New PicoQuant module offers highly flexible FLIM and FCS analyses

Olympus has announced that its FluoView FV1000 confocal laser scanning microscope (cLSM) and FV1000MPE Multiphoton ranges can now be fitted with the PicoQuant module for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS).

From Picoquant GmbH 3 Mar 2009

Inserting Catheters Without X-Rays

X-rays penetrate the patient's body, helping the doctor guide the catheter through the artery. In future, it will be possible to monitor the position of the catheter without exposing the patient to X-ray radiation, and without the need for a contrast medium.

3 Mar 2009

Instant Control for Laser Welding

A novel camera system has 25,000 processors integrated in its pixels which work together to analyze images the instant they are taken - over ten times faster than a computer. This allows to automatically adjust the output of a laser as it performs welding operations.

3 Mar 2009

Siimpel Announces Investment by LG Innotek

Siimpel Corporation, a leading supplier of optical micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) based solutions for the mobile market, announced today that it has received additional investment in support of its groundbreaking MEMS technology and product development for mobile camera applications from LG Innotek Co. Ltd., Korea's leading provider of core components for cameras, display modules, and other wireless communications products.

2 Mar 2009

Researchers Reveal Individual Fluorescent Color Centers in Diamonds using STED Microscopy

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen has now probed these color centers inside the crystal with unprecedented resolution using an optical microscope. Using STED microscopy, the scientists identified even densely packed color centers and determined their position inside the crystal with a precision better than 0.15 nanometers, corresponding to the dimension of an atom.

2 Mar 2009

We Energies Looks to Control Costs Using LED Streetlights with Advanced Lighting Controls

BetaLED is testing two leading forms of lighting control systems with its LEDway streetlights. Eleven LEDway streetlights installed along 92nd Street in Sturtevant, Wis., were recently outfitted with either a power line communication system or wireless radio frequency (RF) system as part of a side-by-side demonstration of lighting control technologies available for LED streetlights.

27 Feb 2009

Layer of "Dark Cells" in the Retina Has Been Imaged for the First Time

A layer of "dark cells" in the retina that is responsible for maintaining the health of the light-sensing cells in our eyes has been imaged in a living retina for the first time.

26 Feb 2009

Vanderbilt Scientists Invented World's Smallest Periscope

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once.

25 Feb 2009