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Laser Technology News 2005 p5:

• High-brightness-LED market growth slowing but still healthy
  July 26, 2005, Mountain View, CA--The high-brightness light-emitting-diode (HB LED) industry has had a remarkable history of growth. From 1995 onward, the market for HB LEDs grew at an average annual rate of 46%, reaching $3.7 billion in 2004.
• Agilent reports thinnest tricolor LED
  July 22, 2005, Santa Clara, CA--High-end mobile devices, including cellular phones and PDAs, require smaller and thinner components that offer design flexibility. To address this need, Agilent has introduced what they are calling the thinnest top-firing tricolor surface-mount light-emitting diode (LED) that allows designers to mix red, green and blue light sources in any combination to produce a range of illumination colors for use in backlighting and status indicators.
• NIST tests lifetimes of EUV optics
  July 18, 2005, Gaithersburg, MD--As part of its long-standing effort to develop EUVL metrology and calibration services, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is creating a measurement system for accelerated lifetime testing of the mirrors used in EUVL.
• 3D laser probe reveals atomic-level semiconductor structures
  July 13, 2005, San Francisco, CA--Oxford nanoScience (Milton Keynes, England) launched its Laser 3-Dimensional Atom Probe (Laser 3DAP) at SEMICON West this week. The microscope, which incorporates a femtosecond laser, is designed to allow atom-by-atom visualization of the structure of semiconductor materials and devices.
• Nikon lithography system boasts 'hyper NA' lens
  July 1, 2005, Belmont, CA--Nikon Corporation has developed what is claimed to be the world's first lithography system with a 'hyper NA' lens (NA > 1). The NSR-S609B, an argon fluoride (ArF) immersion scanner with the industry's highest NA projection lens of 1.07, is targeted at mass production of 55 nm and development of 45 nm devices.
• Silicon nanoparticles roll into flexible nanotubes
  June 28, 2005, Champaign, IL--By depositing nanoparticles onto a charged surface, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have crafted nanotubes from silicon that are flexible and nearly as soft as rubber.
• FASSST speeds detection of molecular patterns
  June 27, 2005, Columbus, OH--For scientists who want to discern the complex chemistry at work in Earth's atmosphere, detecting a particular gas molecule can be as hard as finding a proverbial needle in a haystack. Frank De Lucia, professor of physics at Ohio State University , and his colleagues recently used their FAST Scan Submillimeter Spectroscopy Technique (FASSST) to make the job easier.
• New NIST method improves accuracy of spectrometers
  June 20, 2005, Gaithersburg, MD--Measurements of the intensity of light at different wavelengths can be made more accurately now, thanks to a new, simple method for correcting common instrument errors developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST recently began offering a special calibration service to characterize spectrometers for stray light using the new method.
• PSI-TEC releases preliminary results from electro-optic plastics
  June 17, 2005, Wilmington, DE--PSI-TEC Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings, Inc. released preliminary data relating to its novel electro-optic plastics. These higher-performing, less expensive electro-optic plastics have the potential to broadly replace current high-end electro-optic materials that are the active core of the high-speed worldwide Internet, telephonic and satellite networks.
• 'Cornell dots' offer alternative to quantum dots for biological imaging and optical computing
  June 10, 2005, Ithaca, NY--Move over, quantum dots. Make way for the new kids on the block--brightly glowing nanoparticles dubbed 'Cornell dots.' By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective silica shell, Cornell University researchers have created fluorescent nanoparticles with possible applications in displays, biological imaging, optical computing, sensors and microarrays such as DNA chips.

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