GE to Build NY X-Ray Plant
May. 31, 2007
General Electric (GE) Healthcare plans to build a facility to make digital x-ray mammography...
'Spinplasmonics' Field Created
May. 31, 2007
By combining two nanotechnology fields -- spintronics and plasmonics -- researchers have found a...
Physicists, Radiologists Team to Improve PET Scans
May. 31, 2007
Electronics are being developed for identifying subatomic particles in high-energy accelerators...
Agilent to Acquire Adaptif
May. 30, 2007
Agilent Technologies Inc. is acquiring Adaptif, a private maker of polarization analysis and...
Lab Use of Qdots Specified
May. 29, 2007
In a step toward earlier disease diagnosis and personalized medicine, detailed protocols have been...
OSA Names Award Winners
May. 29, 2007
Daniel Kleppner, a physics professor emeritus at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard University...
LEDs Woven Into Textiles
May. 29, 2007
Weavers in the San Andreas region of the Sierra Madre, Mexico, are incorporating high-brightness...
Camera Catches Shark Attack
May. 29, 2007
Photron Inc.'s ultima APX camera was behind a killer shark attack of a Cape fur seal at dawn, off...
Nanoscale LEDs Emit UV Light
May. 25, 2007
Nanowires have been used to create tiny, highly efficient ultraviolet LEDs that could help build...
Scanner Maps Collapse Scene
May. 25, 2007
Leica Geosystems redefined the word "support" when it assisted the California Highway Patrol's...
Kodak Licenses OLEDs
May. 24, 2007
Eastman Kodak Co. announced today a cross-licensing agreement with a Taiwan display maker to...
Food Channel Features Laser
May. 24, 2007
A CO2 laser system made by Universal Laser Systems Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., had a prominent role...
Polar Ice May Yield Secrets of the Universe
May. 24, 2007
A $272 million telescope buried more than a mile-and-a-half below the ice at the "bottom of the...
House OKs Laser Pointer Bill
May. 23, 2007
Anyone who is seized by the urge to point a laser pointer at the cockpit of an airplane might think...
Study Urges Nano Oversight
May. 23, 2007
Although the general public continues to know little to nothing about nanotechnology -- the...
Planar Acquires Runco
May. 23, 2007
Planar Systems Inc., a digital display maker based in Beaverton, Ore., announced today it has...
Intel, STMicro to Form Chip Co.
May. 22, 2007
STMicroelectronics, Intel and private venture firm Francisco Partners announced today they will...
Tiny Implantable Biocomputers Developed
May. 22, 2007
A crucial step has been made toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that...
Laser Goes Where Video Can't
May. 22, 2007
A laser-based item monitoring system (LBIMS) balances the need for high-resolution monitoring and...
'Spin Transport' Controlled in Silicon
May. 21, 2007
The magnet-like spin properties of electrons have been measured and controlled in silicon for the...
'Revolutionary' NMR Advance
May. 21, 2007
A highly sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) approach to detecting the molecular structure...
BAE to Provide Navy Sensors
May. 21, 2007
BAE Systems has been named sensor subcontractor for Raytheon Technical Services Co.’s shared...
PLEDs Aim to Improve Picture, Price Tag of Plasma
May. 18, 2007
Single-layer, inexpensive plastic LEDs are being developed that could make the next generation...
Colloid Uses Could Include Medicine, Optics
May. 17, 2007
In answering a fundamental question about the unique properties of colloids, chemical engineers may...
Pentagon VoIP Work Goes to General Dynamics
May. 17, 2007
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today it...
II-VI to Buy Pacific Rare Specialty
May. 17, 2007
II-VI Inc., a Saxonburg, Pa.-based maker of crystalline compounds, announced today that one of its...
UA Optics Class Exposed
May. 16, 2007
Each year for the last 15 years, Robert Walker has stood on a 20-ft ladder -- and withstood rabbit...
Photosensitizers Use IR Source
May. 16, 2007
A new agent to treat certain cancers uses the unique light-emitting properties of specific...
Heat-Resistant 'Nanoglue' Creates Superstrong Bond
May. 16, 2007
By taking a nanolayer of a commercially available glue material and sandwiching it between a thin...
SPIE Urges R&D Funding
May. 16, 2007
SPIE traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to request funding support for innovation legislation,...
Warburg Pincus to Buy Bausch & Lomb
May. 16, 2007
Bausch & Lomb announced today it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates...
Congress Faults Purdue Probe
May. 15, 2007
The chairman of a congressional subcommittee has criticized Purdue University for conducting an...
Nanotech Pioneer to Receive Waterman Award
May. 14, 2007
Nanotechnology expert Peidong Yang will receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 2007 Alan...
An ABL That Maps Ecosystems
May. 14, 2007
An airborne laser and hyperspectral remote-sensing platform is reinventing the science behind...
Alcatel-Lucent to Buy NetDevices, Posts Q1 Losses
May. 14, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent announced today it will acquire NetDevices, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based private...
'1/f' Noise Discovery Could Improve Sensors, Detectors
May. 11, 2007
More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new...
AMD Reduces Work Force
May. 11, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said Wednesday it cut 2.6 percent of its employees, or 430 jobs,...
Coherent Now Offers 1-Day Instrument Turnaround
May. 11, 2007
Coherent Inc. said it is now offering 24-hour shipping (the "C24" program) on its laser measurement...
Gooch & Housego Buys Sifam
May. 11, 2007
Optical components and systems manufacturer Gooch & Housego plc announced this week it has...
ABL 'Still on Track'
May. 11, 2007
Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, the three major defense contractors for the Airborne...
'Breaking Barriers' 2007 CLEO/QELS Theme
May. 10, 2007
New optics concepts and phenomena that rely on 20th-century optics are recently becoming part of...
Vision-Correction Pioneer Awarded Land Medal
May. 10, 2007
The Edwin H. Land Medal, which recognizes achievement in optics with major public impact, has been...
Optics Industry Sponsors Capitol Hill Day
May. 10, 2007
OSA members are calling on US congressman on Capitol Hill today to drum up support for initiatives...
Chip Consortium Plans $600M UAlbany Expansion
May. 10, 2007
International Sematech, the research and development arm of Sematech, a consortium of international...
JDSU Acquires Innocor
May. 10, 2007
JDSU announced today an agreement to purchase Ottawa, Canada-based Innocor, a provider of broadband...
Laser Inventor Dies at 79
May. 9, 2007
Theodore Maiman, PhD, inventor of the first operable laser and twice nominated for a Nobel Prize,...
Northumbria Opens Research Labs
May. 9, 2007
A new £600,000 ($1.2 million) facility for Northumbria and Newcastle universities to teach and...
Mass. Tags $1B for Biotech
May. 9, 2007
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced yesterday a plan to make Massachusetts the "global...
IPG Reports 'Strong' Q1 Results
May. 8, 2007
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. reported its first-quarter results today and said its revenue...
Astrophysicist Named Purdue's 1st Woman President
May. 8, 2007
An internationally recognized astrophysicist was named yesterday as the 11th president of Purdue...
NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever
May. 8, 2007
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spacecraft and ground-based optical telescopes have observed the...
AMD Plans New Plants
May. 7, 2007
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) executives attending the Saratoga Economic Development Corp.'s...
Qdot Breakthrough Could Mean Cheaper Solar Panels
May. 7, 2007
A new method for producing quantum dots -- molecular specks of semiconductors -- could clear the...
VIRTIS Shows Sides of Venus
May. 7, 2007
The south pole of Venus and its gigantic double vortex have been pictured as never before in a...
BAE to Buy Armor for $4.14B
May. 7, 2007
BAE Systems announced today it will acquire defense contractor Armor Holdings for a price that...
Raytheon Lands IR Contract
May. 4, 2007
Raytheon Co. was recently awarded a $7.5 million contract to develop an improved composite material...
Kodak Posts Q1 Loss of $151M
May. 4, 2007
Eastman Kodak Co. today reported a net loss of $151 million, or 53 cents a share, on sales of $2.1...
$16.6M Project Seeks New Particle Accelerator
May. 4, 2007
A new £8.3 million (approximately $16.6 million) project being funded by the British government...
Chip Advance Uses Nature's Patterning Process
May. 4, 2007
The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel has been...
Kodak Selling Plant for $40M
May. 3, 2007
Eastman Kodak Co. will sell its plant and public-utility equipment in Xiamen, China, for...
'Invisible' Objects Closer
May. 3, 2007
A unique computer model designed by a mathematician at the University of Liverpool has shown it is...
X-rays Expose Magnetism
May. 3, 2007
X-rays have been used to see the internal workings of antiferromagnets for the first time, in work...
HP Licenses NIL Technology
May. 2, 2007
HP said today it is beginning to reap returns from its 10-year investment in nanoscale electronics...
CVI Acquiring Melles Griot
May. 2, 2007
CVI Laser LLC, a maker of optical components and assemblies based in Albuquerque, announced today...
Sematech Boosts Litho Research Funds
May. 2, 2007
Nanoelectronics consortium Sematech and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the...
Groups Respond to Patent Rulings
May. 2, 2007
The president of the Licensing Executives Society today warned that this week's US Supreme Court...
$500M Undersea Cable System to Link US, Southeast Asia
May. 1, 2007
A consortium of 17 international telecommunications companies will build the first high-bandwidth...
High-Speed Laser System Takes Crisp, 3-D Retinal Images
May. 1, 2007
In work that could improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, a new type of laser has been developed...
NAS Names 72 New Members
May. 1, 2007
Seventy-two new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries were elected to the National...