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Plant Researchers Use Ultraviolet LEDs To Grow Healthier Lettuce

Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That's because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits. Now a team of plant physiologists has developed a way to make lettuce darker and redder—and therefore healthier—using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

18 May 2009

Global Report Released into Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies

Multimedia Research Group announces a comprehensive global report on emerging thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies that will drive improvements in solar energy production for decades to come

18 May 2009

Tiny, Programmable Switch-mode Battery Chargers Feature Fast and Efficient "Green" Technology

Summit Microelectronics has expanded its third-generation programmable battery charger integrated circuit (IC) family with the introduction of the SMB329. Based on the award winning, highly-integrated SMB339 family, the ...

18 May 2009

IMEC Research Program on Green Radios Joined by Samsung Electronics,

Samsung Electronics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IMEC to lay down their intent to collaborate on technologies for green radios. The research collaboration topics will include cognitive reconfigurable radio baseband and millimeter-wave wireless communications technologies

13 May 2009

Massachusetts Names Electronic Recyclers International the Statewide Contractor for Electronic Waste Recycling

Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronic waste, has once again been named statewide contractor for electronic recycling services by the state of Massachusetts’ Department of Environmental Protection, Operational Services Division

12 May 2009

ASME Pushes Government for Action on a National Energy Policy

Twenty-one engineering societies, representing over one million engineers, have endorsed the “National Energy Policy Goals Proclamation” of ASME and IEEE-USA, which emphasizes research and development in new technologies as part of a comprehensive strategy to protect U.S. economic and national security

11 May 2009