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New Approach to Analyse Surfaces with Different Reflectivities

Due to their stable design, Fizeau interferometers are used to determine the topography of surfaces such as, e.g., plane surfaces. PTB has now developed a method which makes it possible to analyse surfaces with different reflectivities in a simple way. This method can also be extended to dynamic measurements.

19 Dec 2007

Advancements in Emerging Field of Plasmonics Yield Revolutionary Technologies

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.

19 Dec 2007

Astronomers Able to Reconstruct Site of Flare on Solar-Like Star

Flare found on ultra-fast rotating star puzzles astronomers Using observations from ESO’s VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light y...

19 Dec 2007

StereoVision Imaging Resells 2D/3D Switchable Displays

StereoVision Imaging (SVI), a market leader in 3D imaging technology, today announced that they will resell Zalman's market leading 2D/3D switchable displays as a complement to its patented 3D digital image viewer/capturing device, the 3D VuCAM(TM). These 19-inch and 22-inch displays integrate a 3D phase difference film allowing for 3D viewing with the included circular polarizer eyewear.

17 Dec 2007

Ultrafast Movement of Electrons in a Crystal

The dashing start of electrons in a crystal does not remain without consequences for their further fate. This is reported by the Berlin researchers Peter Gaal, Wilhelm Kuehn, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser of the Max-Born Institute and Rudolf Hey of the Paul Drude Institute in the latest issue of the magazine Nature (Vol. 450, Page 1210).

17 Dec 2007

Combining High-Resolution Imaging with a Hardware Decoder in a Miniature Package

Metrologic Instruments, Inc. today announced the release of the IS4920, a miniature mega-pixel imaging engine with a hardware decoder. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) can easily integrate the high-performance engine into a wide range of devices whose applications demand robust omnidirectional scanning of 1D and 2D bar codes.

17 Dec 2007

Scientists Discovers Illuminating Cancer Cells Undermines Potential of Anti-Cancer Drugs

Johns Hopkins scientists have by chance discovered that a widely used means of illuminating cancer cells could undermine studies of the potential value of experimental anti-cancer drugs because the natural ¡§pump¡¨ that cells use to clear out the chemical light source alters their chemistry.

17 Dec 2007

Lockheed Martin Delivers Atmospheric Imaging Assembly to NASA

The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), a suite of four telescopes for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), has been delivered to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in preparation for a launch of SDO no earlier than December 2008. The AIA was designed and built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto.

17 Dec 2007

U.S. DOE Grantes CD-2 Status to the National Synchrotron Light Source

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted "Critical Decision 2" (CD-2) status to the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). This decision approves the facility's performance baseline based on preliminary design, signifying a major step forward in the process to make this state-of-the-art research complex a reality.

17 Dec 2007

Resolve Optics Lastest HD Motorised Zoom Lens Delivers True High Definition Imaging

Resolve Optics Ltd has designed and developed a 4-40mm HD Motorised Zoom Lens that for the first time provides users with true high definition imaging throughout its range of operation.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 17 Dec 2007