Free Summit Next Week: Learn from over 150 years of Optical Design Experience!
Register
Sign In
Subscribe
Advertise
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Register
Sign In
submit press release
electricity News
Lighting the Path to Exascale Computing
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2010 — New chip technology unveiled today by IBM integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using light pulses instead of electrical signals. The advance could bring exascale computers — machines 1000 times faster than today’s best systems — closer to reality.
Fujitsu Cuts Optical Switch Power Consumption in Half
KAWASAKI, Japan, Nov. 10, 2010 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced its new optical waveguide switch consumes only half the power of a traditional switch through the use of fine-patterned silicon germanium instead of traditional silicon in the refractive-index modulator. Just as...
Transparent Material Harvests Light
UPTON, N.Y., Nov. 5, 2010 — Scientists at Brookhaven and Los Alamos national laboratories have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area. Described in the journal Chemistry of Materials, the...
Lockheed Fiber Laser Nabs $14M Contract
BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 20, 2010 — The US Army awarded Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin a $14 million contract to design, develop, build and test a high-power fiber laser-based system suitable for military applications. The Army Space and Missile Defense Command contract...
Nanotube Solar Funnel Concentrates Light
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 14, 2010 — Chemical engineers at MIT have used hollow tubes of carbon atoms to concentrate solar energy 100 times more than would a regular photovoltaic cell. Such nanotubes could form antennas that capture and focus light energy, potentially allowing much...
Intersolar 2010: Betting on Sunny Skies
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2010 — This year’s Intersolar North America show, colocated at the Moscone Center with Semicon West, should have more than 20,000 attendees. That’s up from 17,000 a year ago. The show had 580 exhibitors, an increase of nearly a third from 2009....
Thermopower Creating Waves
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 10, 2010 – Like a flame speeding along the length of a lit fuse, a powerful wave of energy can be created by using a laser to ignite a reactive-fuel-coated carbon nanotube. It could lead to a...
Solar-heated bridges, roads
Feb 28, 2010 — In January, we reported on the Solar Roadways project (“Pushing the envelope: Trends in green research and technology,” p. 45), which is working toward using road surfaces as giant...
US PV market watch
Feb 28, 2010 — The US financial world was anything but rosy in 2009, with the possible exception of the solar sector. According to a December 2009 market report by GTM Research of Cambridge, Mass., grid-connected photovoltaics (PVs) grew from 320 MW in 2008...
LEDs: Beyond High Brightness
Nov 1, 2009 — The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported in 2007 that the US had used roughly 526 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity for lighting (both commercial and residential). In 2008, the EIA reported that a typical...
Yale Engineer Wins Fellowship
Oct 20, 2009 — Yale University in New Haven, Conn., announced that Hong Tang, an assistant professor of engineering at its School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS), is one of 16 US scientists selected as a 2009 Packard Fellow. Tang’s research in...
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...
A closer look at plastic solar cells
Oct 1, 2009 — Plastic solar cells are lightweight, flexible and, most importantly, cheap to make. But so far, these devices lack one thing: efficiency. Now researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle believe that they may have the key to unlocking...
DoE Awards OLED Contract
EWING, N.J., Aug. 20, 2009 -- Phosphorescent organic LED (PHOLED) technology and materials developer Universal Display Corp. has been awarded a two-year, $1.65 million contract by the Department of Energy (DoE) to demonstrate a thin, highly-efficient, white OLED lighting panel...
Fair Expands 'Light at Work' Theme
MUNICH, Germany, May 27, 2009 -- Laser World of Photonics, the top international venue for lasers and photonics, will expand upon the 'Light at Work' theme it adopted at the 2007 trade fair by highlighting manufacturing. Laser World of Photonics will also feature the World of...
Window Generates Electricity
BURTONSVILLE, Md., May 21, 2009 – A tinted see-through coating has been developed that can generate electricity on glass windows from natural and artificial light via ultrasmall organic solar cells.
Energy-efficient microchip provides fresh slate for students in India
HOUSTON – According to the District Information System for Education, which tracks statistics on education in rural India, nearly 106 million schoolchildren do not have access to electricity, and more than 417,000 attend primary schools with fewer than three...
A global kick in the pants
Jan 1, 2009 — Alternative energies are still just too expensive for wide-scale adoption, yet adopt we must to reduce harmful carbon emissions. But how does that happen when costs are so high? Fortunately, governments around the globe are stepping in to give...
Record, Record, Who Has the Record?
Dec 1, 2008 — When two US government agencies claim to have broken the solar cell efficiency record set by Spectrolab in 2006, it begs the question: Who is measuring what and how? In August, the US National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), which is operated for...
Schwarzenegger Touts Energy Innovations During Superlaser Tour
Nov 12, 2008 — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday advanced laser technology "has the potential to revolutionize our energy future." His remarks were made as he toured the stadium-sized National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore...
GM Tops It Off with Solar
Oct 1, 2008 — In Spain, companies are encouraged to host solar energy systems that produce electricity to be sold back to the utilities, where feed-in tariffs guarantee a set price for that energy. With that in mind, General Motors (GM), in a unique business...
A Step Toward More Efficient Plastic Solar Cells
Apr 1, 2008 — In the world of solar cells, those fabricated from plastic are regarded as an attractive alternative to their more costly cousins made from inorganic materials. But solar cells with one set of strengths usually are saddled with a weakness as...
Schott Solar to Build in NM
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2008 -- Schott Solar Inc., a subsidiary of international technology company Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, announced this week it will expand its US photovoltaic (PV) capabilities by building a $100 million solar energy technology production facility in...
New Superconductors Sought
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 21, 2007 -- Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team is suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon. In a review published this week in Nature, researchers from Los Alamos...
Plastic Nanofibers Conduct Electricity, Repel Water
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2, 2007 -- Newly developed tiny plastic fibers could be the key to some diverse technologies in the future -- including self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics and biomedical tools that manipulate strands of DNA. In the June issue of the journal...
<
1
2
3
>
(55 results found)
May 2024
Subscribe
Advertise
Issue Library
Latest Products
Bragg Laser Cores
Modulight Inc.
UV Spectroradiometers
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
Flow Cytometer
Agilent Technologies Inc., Chemical Analysis
High Power LED
Lumileds
Fizeau Interferometer
4D Technology Corporation
Pockels Cell
G&H
Low Profile Mirror Mount
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
Optical Line Terminal
Tellabs
Hand-Held Medical Light Source
NICO Corp.
Laser Cleaning System
Laser Photonics Corp.
Features
Rare-Earth Doped Fibers Deliver Critical Elements to Dynamic Systems
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Bottlenecks in Process and Production Hinder Micro-LED Adoption
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Beam Deflection Units Increase the Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Explore Our Content
News
Features
Latest Products
Webinars
White Papers
All Things Photonics Podcast
Videos
Our Summits & Conferences
Industry Events
Bookstore
Join Our Community
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a member
Sign in
Contribute a Feature
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Mobile Apps
About Us
Our Company
Our Publications
Contact Us
Career Opportunities
Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
©2024 Photonics Media
100 West St.
Pittsfield, MA, 01201 USA
[email protected]
We use cookies to improve user experience and analyze our website traffic as stated in our
Privacy Policy
. By using this website, you agree to the use of
cookies
unless you have disabled them.