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Zecotek Photonics' LFS Scintillation Crystals Selected by Shinshu University for PET Research

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its patented LFS scintillation crystals have been selected by Japan's pr...

From Zecotek Photonics 10 Feb 2010

Argonne Scientist Named American Physical Society Fellow

Dennis Mills of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

From Argonne National Laboratory 10 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop New, More Efficient Low-Cost Microring Resonator

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American, and Aus...

10 Feb 2010

Ultratech Introduces Newest Lithography System for HBLED Manufacturing

Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today introduced its newest lithography system, the Sapphire 100 for high-brightness light-emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturing.

9 Feb 2010

Revolutionary Lighting Technology that uses Nanotechnology

RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

8 Feb 2010

Quantum Computing in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically E...

8 Feb 2010

Discovery a Giant Leap in Quantum Computing

A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits."

5 Feb 2010

Researchers Produces New Type of Lighting Component using Graphene

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention, wh...

5 Feb 2010

Resonator Emits Brief Flashes of Light for Entangled Photons

An important step in the way towards the quantum computer is the generation and testing of systems made up of several entangled quantums. When constructing such quantum systems, photons, light particles, are well sui...

5 Feb 2010

NIST Physicists Builds World's Most Precise Clock

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter based on a mercury atom.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 4 Feb 2010