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• Asteroid camera uses 1.4 gigapixel detector from MIT
  November 18, 2008--Silicon chips developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Cambridge, MA) are at the heart of a new survey telescope that will soon provide a more than fivefold improvement in scientists' ability to detect asteroids and comets that could someday pose a threat to the planet.
• Attosecond laser pulses steer hydrogen molecules
  November 17, 2008--Physicists at Kansas State use ultrafast lasers to control electrons in hydrogen molecules--and the results are surprising.
• Rensselaer A-R coating improves solar-cell absorption
  November 6, 2008--A "near-perfect" antireflection coating for silicon solar cells will improve the efficiency of absorption, says professor Shawn-Yu Lin at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The A-R coating boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire spectrum of sunlight from any angle, regardless of the sun's position in the sky.
• New laser fabrication method makes for less expensive greener displays
  November 3, 2008--The 400G laser by Powerlase, for OLED displays, is designed to reduce production costs and help the environment.
• New microscopy technique good for nanoscale dimensioning
  October 30, 2008--A new type of microscope--a through-focus scanning optical microscope (TSOM)--enables fast and cheap nanoscale imaging.
• Hubble scores a "perfect 10" after glitch delays shuttle
  October 30, 2008--Hubble has acquired an image looking like the number "10" with its fully restored capabilities after a data formatting instrument failure delayed a Space-Shuttle serving mission.
• Novel optical fiber enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses
  October 29, 2008--Researchers have developed a novel optical fiber that enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses with an unprecedented low degree of distortions.
• Oxford Instruments-TDI develops new technique for fabrication of InGaN LEDs
  October 23, 2008--Oxford Instruments-TDI introduces a new hydride vapor-phase epitaxy (HVPE) technology for fabricating green, blue, and violet light emitters.
• Inorganic-organic hybrid polymer captures more wavelengths more efficiently
  October 20, 2008--Researchers at Ohio State University have created a new polymer material that absorbs all wavelengths of the visible spectrum using triplet states.