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Laser Technology News 2008 p3:

• Newport photovoltaic laser-scribing system is optionally dual-wavelength
  Sept. 10, 2008--Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) has unveiled its SolaryX 420 laser scribing system for thin-film photovoltaic process-development applications. The SolaryX 420 tool is a flexible, semi-automated laser system designed for scribing the interconnect patterns of thin-film-on-glass solar panels.
• Helium ion microscope allows extreme nano imaging
  September 8, 2008--New potentially disruptive technology has several advantages over traditional scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging, say researchers at NIST.
• Invisibility unmasked: Chinese researchers propose uncloaking of an invisible object
  September 4, 2008--Certain materials behind cloaking fields may theoretically be able to undo invisibility cloaking.
• Engineers praise quality of LSST mirror blank
  September 3, 2008--The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is "perfect," say its project astronomers and engineers.
• ATI unveils NIR solid-state photomultiplier with gain of greater than 200,000
  August 29, 2008--Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI; New York, NY) has developed--and is introducing as a commercial product--a near-infrared (NIR) version of its Discrete Amplification Photon Detector (DAPD) technology which, in its pre-existing version, spans the visible spectrum.
• MAXOS noncontact measurement reduces TGTC turbine-blade inspection time by 83%
  August 28, 2008--Toshiba GE Turbine Components (TGTC; Yokohama, Japan) has reduced the time required to inspect and measure steam turbine blades from 280 minutes to 45 minutes by using the MAXOS noncontact measurement system from Steintek GmbH (Greding, Germany) and their distributor NVision Inc (Southlake, TX and Wixom, MI).
• NIST scientists make quantum dots emit photons one at a time
  August 19, 2008--Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland (College Park, MD) and NIST, have developed a new way to fine-tune the light coming from indium arsenide quantum dots by manipulating them with pairs of lasers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Caltech bioengineers develop "microscope on a chip"
  August 7, 2008--Super-compact high-resolution microscop fits on a chip to image pathogens in the field for cheap.

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