Israel's Tower, CMT partner to make X-ray detectors
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Israeli chip maker Tower Semiconductor   and CMT Medical Technologies, a provider of digital  X-ray imaging systems for medical diagnosis, said on Wednesday  they had established a partnership to develop X-ray detectors  for medical applications.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro  Shimomura)(TOKYO:6503) announced today the development of an Avalanche  Photodiode (APD1).
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like the one used in Star Wars - could soon be installed on the high-street. Boffins in Japan claim to have developed technology for image chambers - similar
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Reflective dishes may be the answer to make solar energy competitive with conventional sources of power, Israeli scientists say.
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The 16-ton new module will serve as a connection point for two new laboratories for the station.
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A new detector combines a laser with  a mass spectrometer to provide on-the-spot analysis that  researchers hope will have applications ranging from evaluating  a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting explosives in  luggage.
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Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays.
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JERUSALEM - Israel's sophisticated new spy satellite has begun transmitting images from space, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.  Israel launched the Ofek-7 satellite into orbit Monday, giving it a new tool in its efforts to collect intelligence on Iran and other regional adversaries.
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Israel's sophisticated new spy satellite has begun transmitting images from space, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel activated webcams yesterday at the site of a controversial building project in Jerusalem's Old City as part of an effort to refute accusations by Muslims that the work is threatening the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Construction on an underground physics experiment reaches a major milestone at Cern.
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Israel is installing webcams to film its controversial dig near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site.
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(InfoWorld) - Researchers from Intel and the University of California at Santa Barbara have found a way to build low-cost "laser chips" that could eventually shuttle data around PCs at much higher speeds than today's copper wire interconnects. The researchers combined the properties of a compound semiconductor material called indium phosphide, which emits light constantly, and silicon, which can be used to amplify and direct that light. They sandwiched the materials together to create a single device that can be manufactured using standard chip-making techniques. The breakthrough, announced Monday, is significant because it could help the interconnect technologies that carry data between components in PCs and servers to keep pace with the rapid advances in processing power of the chips themselves, the researchers said. "This could bring low-cost, terabit-level optical 'data pipes' inside future computers and help make possible a new era of high-performance computing applications," said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, in a statement. The work may be several years away from commercialization, but the researchers expect eventually to be able to put dozens or even hundreds of lasers on a single chip, they said. Indium phosphide is already widely used to make lasers for fiber optic networks, but the cost of assembling and aligning the lasers makes them too expensive for the high-volume PC business. Silicon, on the other hand, can amplify and control light and could be used more affordably, but it is not an efficient generator of light itself. The researchers figured out a way to combine the two materials to build a "hybrid silicon laser" that can be manufactured using Intel's standard manufacturing techniques, keeping costs relatively low. To make the silicon laser they created a thin oxide layer roughly 25 atoms thick on the surface of each material. They then heated the oxide and pressed the two layers together, forming a single chip with a "glass glue" between them. Applying a voltage to the device generates light from the indium phosphide, which passes through the joining layer to be guided and controlled by the silicon. The laser light can send data between computer components at extremely high speed. This can be done using a "silicon optical modulator," which effectively turns the laser beam on and off at very high speeds to represent the 1s and 0s of computer code. Intel has already demonstrated a silicon modulator that can transmit data at up to 10Gb per second. Figuring out how to make the hybrid silicon laser was the last big barrier to using silicon-based optical devices in computers and data centers, the researchers said.
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The Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group of Australia said its Macquarie Bank consortium had agreed to acquire a wireless tower operator in the United States, Global Tower Partners, from the Blackstone Group for $1.43 billion.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international telescope project, reached a major milestone on 2 March, when two 12-m ALMA prototype antennas were first linked together as an integrated system to observe an astronomical object.
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The solution to one of the thorniest problems in the Middle East may be taking shape on an anonymous-looking building site in south-west Israel.
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Tokyo plans to set up three-dimensional cameras across the city in the world's most advanced system yet to pinpoint terrorist suspects, a local official said Friday.