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The Power of Spectra
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – “I have contributed all my knowledge to laser research, yet, I still get no RESPECT! But that’s going to change, after I get my hands on that girl and harness her power…” I was sitting in the lobby of the Fairmont San Jose, surrounded by attendees of the 2009 Frontiers in Optics meeting but largely hidden by wide marble pillars and tall potted plants. The latter pronouncement sent a chill through me. I flipped the page to see what Machiavellian scheme the evil Miss Alignment – the laser...
StockerYale Sells to Coherent
SALEM, N.H., Oct. 14, 2009 -- Laser, optical fiber and LED maker StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced today that it has sold its North American operations to Santa Clara, Calif.-based laser company Coherent Inc. for $15 million in cash and the assumption of some of its...
Cree Adds Green Jobs in NC
Oct 13, 2009 — Cree Inc., a manufacturer of LED lighting products based in Durham, N.C., announced the expansion of its manufacturing capacity in 2009 with the addition of 275 green jobs in Durham. The market for energy-efficient lighting continues to expand, said...
FiO Hot Topics: Hot Optics
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 -- New types of research that explore breakthroughs in medical imaging, solar power, communications and vision were presented during "What's Hot in Optics Today?" during Frontiers in Optics 2009 (FiO) Sunday. About 100 conference early birds gathered...
FiO Hot Topics: Hot Optics
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2009 -- New types of research that explore new avenues in medical imaging, solar power, communications and vision were presented during "What's Hot in Optics Today?" during Frontiers in Optics 2009 (FiO) Sunday. About 100 conference early birds attended the...
Universal Display Nabs DoE Grants
Oct 13, 2009 — Ewing, N.J.-based Universal Display, developer of OLED technologies and materials, has been awarded two new US Department of Energy (DoE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grants for white phosphorescent OLED lighting programs to...
Osram Sylvania Launches Contest
Oct 8, 2009 — Automotive lighting maker Osram Sylvania of Hillsboro, N.H., and the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit officially launched the first annual Osram Automotive Lighting Design Challenge today. The project is designed to help educate future...
3-D TV, Bio-optics Hot at FiO
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 2, 2009 -- The future of 3-D TV, laser fusion and exawatt lasers, bio-optics breakthroughs and illumination-aware imaging for producing better robotic vision are just a few of the hot topics to be discussed during the Optical Society of America's (OSA)...
Sharp Opens 10th-Gen. LCD plant
Oct 2, 2009 — Operations have started at the new Sharp Display Products Corp.’s 10th-generation LCD panel plant in Sakai City, Japan, the company announced Thursday. Construction on the manufacturing complex began November 2007. The facility will process mother...
Divisions Added
Oct 1, 2009 — Supplier of LED products CoolLED, headquartered in Andover, UK, has added two new divisions. Its design division will address the requirements of OEMs that want to incorporate LED technology into their products, while its industrial division will...
Efficiency of Solar Panels in Street Lights
Oct 1, 2009 — When my colleague Usha Prasad and I stumbled on to Cypress Semiconductor's forays into LEDs and solar (oh, those topics again), during a recent conversation, it turned out to be quite enlightening in the end! As most of us already know, energy...
Energy Grant
Oct 1, 2009 — In Berkeley, Calif., the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been granted $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This grant is in addition to the $115.8 million the laboratory received in March from the US...
Getting a foot in the door: The role of photonics in modern security systems
Oct 1, 2009 — In times past, a guard might demand someone entering his domain to “halt and be identified.” Today that job is increasingly done by security ID systems using a variety of techniques, including photonic ones such as lasers, optical media and optic...
Global Agreement
Oct 1, 2009 — Mouser Electronics Inc. of Mansfield, Texas, has signed a global distribution agreement with DBM Reflex Lighting Solutions of West Laval, Quebec, Canada. The contract provides the Canadian company with its first distributor. Mouser will stock its...
HB-LEDs Poised for Growth
Oct 1, 2009 — Recently, there were two contrasting news. One, coming out of Taiwan, and the other from Strategy Analytics. While the first one indicated that the LED chip and packaging makers in Taiwan seemed to be out of synchronization in Q4, the other reported...
Letters to the Editor
Oct 1, 2009 — Benefits, not danger I read with interest the article by Gary Boas titled, “Just how dangerous are foreign researchers?” (June 2009, p. 62). I came to the US many years ago as a postdoctoral fellow from Germany and experienced firsthand the many...
Small device prevents diode death
ORLANDO, Fla. – Electrostatic discharge (ESD), reverse bias and power surges are common causes for the malfunction or premature failure of laser diodes, LEDs and photodiodes. As a solution, William Benner, president of Pangolin Laser Systems, has devised a...
Taking Semiconductor Manufacturing to the Extreme
Oct 1, 2009 — As consumer and enterprise demand for faster computers increases, so will the demand for faster computer chips. The speed of computer chips is directly related to the number of transistors that can fit on a chip. Transistors work like switches...
The Photonics Industry Shines in France
Oct 1, 2009 — “With more than 400 manufacturers of cutting-edge photonics technologies and a solid R&D base, French [photonics] companies have continuously delivered innovative new products that have ensured their strategic position in the global market,”...
Tunable light source reaches nanoscale milestone
SOUTHAMPTON, UK – In the race to develop ever-smaller and -faster optical devices, researchers have built the first tunable nanoscale light source driven by free electrons. Dubbed the “light-well” by its creators, the novel emitter could one day be used as an on-chip...
US DoE helps flip the switch on LED streetlights
Oct 1, 2009 — Most streetlights in the US are high-pressure sodium, but the many advantages of LEDs are pushing municipalities to make the switch – or at least to think about it. Because it is such a big chunk of change to lay out at the start, the US Department...
1st Atomic-scale QD Map Made
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 29, 2009 – The first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots was created by a team of physicists at the University of Michigan, who say it is a major step toward producing “designer dots” that can be tailored for specific applications.
Indium Buys NanoFoil Maker
CLINTON, N.Y., Sept. 23, 2009 – Materials supplier Indium Corp. announced it has acquired Reactive NanoTechnologies Inc. (RNT), a Hunt Valley, Md.-based maker of the electronics material NanoFoil. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
LEDs, Tea Better Than Botox?
ULM, Germany, Sept. 10, 2009 – A new noninvasive technique for treating facial wrinkles by combining high-intensity LED light and a lotion made of green tea extract could become an alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery. The new treatment works 10 times faster than a similar...
Plextronics, Novaled Team Up
Sep 8, 2009 — Novaled AG of Dresden, Germany, a maker of organic LEDs (OLED), and Plextronics Inc., a Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of conductive organic inks for printed lighting, solar and other electronics, announced today that they will jointly develop doped-...
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