Change and growth very often start in the R&D lab, and for the emerging printed electronics market, that’s where the action is happening. And judging from excitement in the marketplace, Xenon Corporation’s Sinteron 500, 2000 and LS-845 systems are taking starring roles. These Xenon R&D tools are currently in use at major formulators and device manufacturers' system integrators, but they stole the spotlight in recent trade show appearances at Printed Electronics USA 2010,www.idtechex.com/printed-electronics-usa-10 the FlexTech Conference,www.flextech.org and the IPC Conference.wwwipc.org
Very soon, the systems will reprise their success at the upcoming LOPE-C in Germany,www.lope-c.com at Nanotech, www.techconnectworld.com/Nanotech2011 and at iMAPS. www.imapsne.org Follow any of these links to get all the details.

Rez—Dr. Rezaoul Karim—says that he is excited to be part of Xenon’s engineering team and to meet the range of new products and challenges the company offers. But new challenges are not new for Rez. With a background in academia as well as in the corporate world, Rez Karim is a man for all seasons.
With a brand new Ph.D. in Experimental Physics, earned at Boston’s Northeastern University, Rez headed for Colorado State University to assume a research and teaching position while pursuing a post-doctoral study in high frequency losses in hexagonal ferrite materials. After a few years in Colorado, Rez returned to the east to join the Northeastern faculty as a research scientist in the Center of Electromagnetics Research. His pioneering work using pulsed UV laser deposition to develop artificial ferrite films introduced him to Xenon Corporation, the undisputed leader in pulsed UV light technology. It took several more career iterations though, before Rez Karim linked up with Xenon on a fulltime basis—a corporate “home” where he is able to focus on his interest in developing pulsed UV light applications.

From the beautiful valley of Kashmir, and then India’s capital city of New Delhi, Rez Karim is now “at home” in Wilmington, Massachusetts. In his spare moments, he enjoys cricket, soccer, humorous movies and teaching math and science to youngsters. To communicate with Rez click on this link.

Vitamin D2-enhanced mushrooms may be the biggest health news to hit Australia since limes were found to combat scurvy. Dietary studies show that Vitamin D contributes significantly to bone health and plays a powerful prevention role in a host of serious diseases. While Vitamin D2 is relatively rare in foods, mushrooms have high concentrations of the valuable vitamin in the form of natural ergosterol. The action of sunlight on the surface of mushrooms can boost ergosterol levels to 10-20 mcg (400-800 IU) per 100g of fresh mushrooms. Trouble is, mushrooms are commercially grown in the dark since lighting tends to affect the cool room temperatures of the growing rooms, and it compromises running costs and quality.

Recent trials conducted by Australia’s University of Western Sydney produced two startling results: that light exposure can easily realize the Adequate Intake levels of Vitamin D in a single serving of mushrooms and that Vitamin D is stable and well absorbed from the mushroom. With this news, Australian mushroom growers eagerly sought to collaborate with Warsash Scientific, the distributor for Xenon Corporation’s pulsed ligh equipment, and with The Univesity of Western Sydney to test the effects of pulsed light on Vitamin D levels post harvest.

Trays of two sizes of mushrooms with diameters of 35 mm and 50mm, were placed on conveyor belts and passed under pulsed light for 1-2 seconds. The resulting Vitamin D2 levels registered at least 10 mcg (400 IU)—which is the recommended daily amount for adults 51 to 70 years old. Pulsed light, pioneered and produced in the USA is making a big difference down under.

To see the the research paper on Vitamin D from the Australian Mushroom Growers Association click on this link.

Things happen so fast at Xenon Corporation—new products, new research—and now social networking. Now you can keep up to date in nearly realtime with what’s happening at Xenon. Follow us on Twitter, check out our Photonics Sintering video on YouTube—66 viewers already had and it’s showing up on searches in Google. And coming soon you can catch us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Xenon’s latest social adventure is ON THE PULSE—our new blog. It’s as lively and healthy as the heartbeat of Xenon Corporation itself. Posts are being written by just about everyone in the company from engineers to sales people to folks in the marketing department. We invite your comments, so you can be a Xenon blogger too. Check us out.

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