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Leica Microsystems Launches New Generation of Digital Microscopes

Digital technologies have revolutionized everyone's work and everyday lives. In particular, industrial quality control -- which places the most stringent requirements on macroscopic and microscopic imaging and image processing -- benefits from innovative, reliable digital technology.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 6 Apr 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Optical Frequency Comb for Manipulating Quantum Bits

Physicists at the University of Maryland have found a way to turn a precision measurement device into a versatile tool for manipulating quantum bits (qubits).

6 Apr 2010

University Ordered AI's ECU to Expand Research Infrastructure in Nanophotonics Sector

Air Innovations, Inc. (AI) announces the completion of several projects requiring the company's expertise designing and building custom environmental control units (ECUs).

6 Apr 2010

BEST Receives $2.4M Contract from Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory

Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. today announced the receipt of a $2.4 million contract from the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron, or LNLS) for the realization of a state-of-the-art, turn-key beamline.

6 Apr 2010

Researchers Develop Thin Film OLED Using Iridium-Based Guest Molecules to Emit Various Colors of Visible Light

Using polymer nanoparticles to house light-emitting 'inks', scientists at the Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy nanoscience center located at Berkeley Lab, and the University of California, Berkeley, have made a thin film OLED using iridium-based guest molecules to emit various colors of visible light.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5 Apr 2010

Sofradir Launches New Pair of IR Cores Based on All-Silicon Microbolometers

Sofradir EC, Inc. has introduced a new pair of infrared imaging cores based on uncooled microbolometer infrared detectors. The ATOM 640 and ATOM 320 IR cores combine state-of-the-art electronics and high performance u...

3 Apr 2010

New NIST-Designed Instrument for Nanoscale Mechanics Applications

How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of—let's say—gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms? It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers.

3 Apr 2010

Entanglement of Atoms Helps Solve Problem of Quantum Physics

The microcosm, the realm of quantum physics, is ruled by probability and chance. The behaviour of quantum particles cannot be predicted with certainty but only with certain probabilities given by quantum physics. T...

2 Apr 2010

Omron Partners with WESCO Sales Group to Cover West Region

Today, Omron Electronic Components LLC has announced the engagement and partnership of Manufacturer's Representative firm, WESCO Sales Group Inc. as their full-time sales team for the West Region.

2 Apr 2010

Sony’s TFT-LCD Facilities to be Acquired by KYOCERA

Kyocera Corporation today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Sony Corporation and its subsidiary Sony Mobile Display Corporation (herein "SMD") to acquire part of its Thin Film Transistor (TFT) Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) design and manufacturing business.

2 Apr 2010