New products
Burle Electro-Optics Inc has announced a patent award for its high-performance, high-speed BiPolar Time-of-Flight detectors for mass spectrometry applications. Providing up to 10 kV of post acceleration, the detector is enclosed in a low-profile assembly combining a highly sensitive microchannel plate and electro-optically isolated output signal. For further details, tel. +1 800 648 1800, +1 508 347 4000, or e-mail sales@burle-eo.com.
Narda Safety Test Solutions has equipped its Selective Radiation Meter SRM-3000 with an innovative time analysis mode. This allows frequency-selective, uninterrupted measurements of pulsed electromagnetic radiation and makes the instrument ideal for recording all pulsed radiation at up to 3 GHz, enabling evaluation for compliance with emission safety standards. For more details, tel. +49 7121 9732 777, e-mail. support@ narda-sts.de or see www.narda-sts.de
Optical Surfaces Ltd supply high-quality custom toroidal mirrors for spectrophotometry, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry and synchrotron applications. Toroidal mirrors are focusing devices utilized where a beam must be focused and folded, making use of one optical element rather than two. For further information, tel. +44 208 668 6126, e-mail sales@opticalsurf.com or see www.optisurf.com.
Oxford Instruments and Quantum Design have launched a jointly developed innovative compact dilution refrigerator, model P850. The novel continuously circulating 3He/4He refrigerator is fully automated and valveless and installs easily into Quantum Design's Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS), extending the minimum temperature to 50 mK. For further information, tel. +44 1865 393 200, e-mail superconductivity@oxinst.co.uk or visit www.oxford-instruments.com.
PI (Physik Instrumente) is offering a variety of piezo-driven, high-speed steering mirrors for use in a variety of applications, ranging from lithography to bio-medical instrumentation. The company can also provide miniature nanopositioning stages for applications where space is at a premium, providing resolutions to better than 0.1 nm. For further information, call +1 508 832 3456, e-mail info@pi-usa.us or visit the website at www.pi.ws.
The article about the award of the 2005 Einstein Medal to Murray Gell-Mann, on p40 of the October issue, incorrectly stated that the president of the Swiss Confederation, Samuel Schmid, had presented the award to Gell-Mann. The presentation was in fact made by Peter Minkowski, president of the Albert Einstein Society. Many apologies to all concerned.
The fourth "epoline" Annual Conference , which is organized by the European Patent Office, will take place at the Athenaeum InterContinental Athenson 23-24 November. The conference will bring together intellectual property and patent professionals on the theme of "The Future of IP Infrastructure in Europe". It will show how the epoline online patent filing and management processes are setting new technical standards worldwide in order to make the patent procedure more efficient, transparent, accessible and cost effective. For further information, see http://my.epoline.org/.