With a combined population of 2.7 billion people and with significant unmet medical need the challenges and opportunities of BRIC markets are considerable.

DEK Solar will be showcasing its new scalable photovoltaic metallization platform at this year's Solar Power International exhibition, October 12-14, 2010 in Los Angeles.

The new Varian MCS-80 tube facilitates the detection of non-metallic items such as ceramic weapons, plastic explosives, narcotics, liquids, and other concealed substances.

The CancerPartnersUK report stresses that there is a general lack of awareness by the public of how good radiotherapy is at treating cancer.

AEG Power Solutions' new Thyrobox PI power system is expected to set new efficiency standards in polysilicon production, allowing manufacturers of polysilicon to increase the production output of their existing polysilicon reactors by 10 to 20%.

Corning and Oerlikon Solar have achieved a record-breaking 11.9% stabilized conversion efficiency in a silicon-tandem, research-size photovoltaic cell.

Oerlikon Solar's new production line "ThinFab" for manufacturing thin film silicon modules is said to achieve record breaking production costs of €0.50 per watt peak (Wp).

PCB-Pool can now manufacture aluminum-core PCBs with a thickness of 1.5 mm and isolation layer of 100µm.

The ability to control light pulses on an integrated chip-based platform is a major step toward the realization of all-optical quantum communication networks, with potentially vast improvements in ultra-low-power performance.

Henkel will display the company's most recent innovations in electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) technology in Hall 1, Level 3, Stand A14 at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC) in Valencia, Spain.