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• Plastic OLEDs may have efficiency limit of 25%
  August 18, 2008--An organic spin transistor may be plausible, say University of Utah researchers. But their study hints that efficient OLEDs will have limits.
• Renishaw unveils new StreamLine Plus Raman imaging system
  August 18, 2008--StreamLine Plus, unveiled at ICORS 2008, is ten times faster thanks to optimization of software, detector hardware, and a new MS10 high-speed microscope stage.
• Edmund Optics releases family of ultrafast laser mirrors
  August 12, 2008--Edmund Optics released its ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser mirrors to keep your pulses together with flat group velocity dispersion curves centered around 800 nm and flat over the 700-900 nm range. The mirrors are available in 12.7 and 25.4mm diameters, 6.35mm thick, with a 10-5 surface quality, and surface accuracy of 1/10 wave.
• Spatially offset Raman technology improves pharmaceutical processes
  August 11, 2008--LiteThru Limited technology uses novel SORS spectroscopy technique to revolutionize quality control and formulation development processes.
• Microsoft develops high-efficiency pixel technology
  August 6, 2008--A new type of pixel technology invented by researchers at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) and the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) for transmissive flat-panel displays increases the backlight transmission efficiency by a factor of 3 to 10 over ordinary liquid-crystal-display (LCD) pixels.
• New lasers from Powerlase address display manufacturing and solar-cell processing
  July 31, 2008--Powerlase (Crawley, England), manufacturer of nanosecond Q-switched, diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers, introduced a new range of green lasers, the Starlase 100G and Starlase 200G, that are designed for specific applications including solar-cell processing and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) flat-panel display manufacture.
• New optical tweezers can use existing microscopes
  July 30, 2008--Elliot Scientific has added new systems to its range of optical tweezers; the new systems offer the ability to retrofit existing microscopes and bring optical tweezing into the lab at an affordable price, says the company.
• Molecule-destroying pulses help characterize nanostructured surfaces
  July 30, 2008--Surface-enhanced Raman scattering can be used to detect deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage. To further improve the technique's sensitivity, scientists must design better scattering surfaces, and more effective ways of evaluating them.
• Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers
  July 28, 2008--Innovative lasers have potential in a wide range of photonics and communications applications, say Harvard and Hamatatsu researchers.
• McPherson introduces new VUV light source
  July 25, 2008--McPherson, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA), which makes instruments for spectral testing, has come out with a new vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light source.