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LABSCO Appointed as Nikon Instruments' Clinical Distributor in Six States

Nikon Instruments Inc. announced that it has appointed Laboratory Supply Company, "LABSCO" its clinical laboratory dealer in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and West Virginia. LABSCO, the largest privately held distributor of clinical lab products in the United States, will sell Nikon's market leading i-Series Laboratory Microscopes and DS Series Digital Cameras to the health care market in these states.

21 Oct 2008

Breakthrough Silicon Technology Selected to Develop Next-Generation Optical Interconnects

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced it has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Sun Microsystems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program. Luxtera's technology and silicon fabrication processes will be used to develop next-generation optical interconnects to produce chip-to-chip and intra-chip interconnect technology. This project will provide the computing industry with low–cost, enhanced high performance computer systems.

21 Oct 2008

Tabletop Microscope Recognized as Top 100 Most Significant Technological Advances for 2008

R+D Magazine has recognized a tabletop microscope developed by a team of Colorado State University and Berkeley researchers at the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Science and Technology as one of the Top 100 most significant technological advances for 2008.

20 Oct 2008

New Sensor to Improve Road Safety

STMicroelectronics, a world leader in the design and manufacture of automotive ICs, today announced its first high-dynamic-range CMOS camera specifically tailored for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market. The new sensor combines the company's world-class expertise in automotive markets together with leading-edge CMOS imaging technology.

20 Oct 2008

Successful in Action: SESAM from Carl Zeiss in Use for Metals Research

The special SESAM system, a high performance version of the LIBRA® 200 transmission electron microscope series from Carl Zeiss SMT, has been in use at the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) for the past 10 months.

20 Oct 2008

Graphin Develops Evaluation Suites of CMOS Image Sensors with MIPI Standard

Graphin Co., Ltd., a rapidly emerging leader for evaluation suites for image sensors, announced today that it has developed the Advanced Board, an advanced evaluation product of CMOS Image Sensors (hereinafter called CIS) supported with the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) standard and will ship them on a commercial basis no later than the end of 2008.

19 Oct 2008

High Energy Neutral Atom Imager Captures Evidence of Far-Distant Particle Collisions

A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.

18 Oct 2008

New Catalog from PI Focuses on Specimen Positioning Devices and Microscope Lenses

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

17 Oct 2008

Pro-Lite Announces Release of ProSource 8.0 Light Source Modelling Software

Pro-Lite Technology LLP (Cranfield, England) has announced the release of ProSource 8.0 software from Radiant Imaging. The light source modeling software now delivers an improved user interface and expanded functionality for Radiant Source Model analysis and ray generation.

16 Oct 2008

Astor Center Hosts Top Photomicrographs from Around the World

With the appearance of gracefully swooping beams of light or a colorful array of feathers, a dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) has won the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom took home the top honor with this image, which was magnified 200 times and taken using darkfield and polarized light.

16 Oct 2008