S.E.T. and Nanoimprint Lithography Solutions announced that the partnership between S.E.T. and CEA Leti has resulted in a new generation high accuracy (0.5 µm), high force (4,000 N) Device Bonder for wafer diameters up to 300 mm

A new technical market research report entitled "Photonic Crystals: Technology and Global Markets" indicates the global market for photonic crystals will be worth $13.9 million in 2007.

The University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 M from the NSF.

German research on novel optoelectronic devices and nanostructures is reinforced by a new Center of Excellence funded by the country's National Science Foundation.

75 million euro investment creates 180 new jobs

Novaled achieved significant improvements for white OLEDs for lighting applications. An efficiency of 35 lm/W and a lifetime of 100,000h were reached at a brightness of 1000 cd/m2.

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a grant valued at £5m to a consortium of researchers in the UK, led by the University of Surrey, to work on Silicon Photonics.

With the help of a device capable of depositing metals an atom at a time in the materials used in computer chips, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has successfully blended modern semiconductor technology and nanomachines.

By placing quantum dots on a specially designed photonic crystal, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated enhanced fluorescence intensity by a factor of up to 108.