Zygo Corp. announced Wednesday it will buy ASML US Inc.’s optics facility in Richmond,... | Elbit Systems of America LLC of Fort Worth has been awarded a five-year, $68 million Indefinite Deli... |
Atrenta Inc. announced Wednesday that it has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with CEA-Le... | Arrow Electronics Inc. and Cree Inc. of Melville and Durham, respectively, have teamed with leading ... |
Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO) recently celebrated the completion of the largest sol... | Fiber optic cable maker Tratech Fiberoptics of Bend, Ore., will manufacture and distribute Meight op... |
NanoIntegris Inc., a supplier of 99 percent pure semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes, annou... | Princeton Instruments announced recently the appointment of two new regional sales engineer position... |
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded e2v Technologies plc a contract to develop a new CCD ima... | Defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its wholly-owned US subsidiary, ... |
Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems for large commercial rooftops... | KVH Industries Inc. announced it received a $1.1 million contract award for its high-performance fib... |
Liquid lens provider Varioptic announced the appointment of Hamid Farzaneh as its chief executive of... | A new hybrid incandescent-shaped light bulb that combines the instant brightness of halogen technolo... |
Keithley Instruments Inc., which specializes in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, co... | Heason Technology, a motion control and systems specialist, announced the appointment of Jason Bresl... |
National Semiconductor Corp., manufacturer of high-performance analog semiconductors, announced it i... | Corning Inc. has named Pamela C. Schneider as executive vice president and operations chief of staff... |
Quantum dot company QD Vision announced that Dr. Seth Coe-Sullivan was selected as a member of the N... | Enabling broadband and optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets, JD... |
Newly established spinout company from the University of Strathclyde, mLED Ltd. announced the appoin... | Rice Camera Technologies Inc. entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Telops Inc. of Q... |
Prysm Inc., a provider of laser phosphor display (LPD) technology for large-format applications, has... | Industrial automation specialist Orwin announced it has integrated a JK Laser laser into its twin st... |
Asylum Research, a manufacturer of scanning probe and atomic force microscopy (SPM/AFM) equipment, h... | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a company that strives to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer... |
Spectral Molecular Imaging Inc. (SMI) said it recently completed development of its initial product,... | The ATLAS collaboration at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s laboratory f... |
Harvard photonics spinoff SiOnyx Inc. announced Wednesday that its latest, $12.5 million fundin... | DTU Fotonik Department of Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and the Unive... |
The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (Astri) has formally licensed its an... | Benjamin Lev, physics professor at the University of Illinois, has been named a Packard Fellow in sc... |
RadTech International North America announced the recent hire of Chuck Cameron to help lead its memb... | Light Blue Optics (LBO) announced that it has raised $13 million in funding, enabling it to continue... |
Fiber optic sensor supplier, Opsens Inc., has been chosen by the Petroleum Technology Research Centr... | The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute under the Agency for Science, Technolo... |
Bridgelux Inc. announced the introduction of a five-year warranty, effective immediately, on all of ... | Zecotek Photonics Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Jalil Ali to its board of directors. Ali wil... |
OSI Systems Inc., a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical a... | Veeco Instruments Inc., a maker of equipment used to manufacture LEDs, solar panels and hard disk dr... |
A spectroradiometrically calibrated USB4000 spectrometer from Ocean Optics is helping dentists to us... | FEI Co. has released “An Introduction to Electron Microscopy,” an all-new edition of its... |
Three divisions of vision metrology company Quality Vision International Inc. (QVI) recently complet... | ScatterMaster LLC announced Lambda Research Corp. of Littleton, Mass., as the new worldwide distribu... |
Flat glass optics manufacturer Sydor Optics announced the completion of the first half of its $4 mil... | An international consortium of companies and R&D centers have launched a €3.9 million ($5.5... |
Laser Components formed a strategic partnership with PicoQuant GmbH to produce photon counting modul... | Ghent University (UGent) and imec announced the creation of Caliopa, a spinoff from their Photonics ... |
Emcore Corp. announced yesterday that the board of directors appointed Mark Weinswig as its chief fi... | The Institute of Applied Photophysics (IAPP) at Dresden University and Heliatek GmbH of Dresden have... |
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. announced the establishment of Hamamatsu Photonics Europe GmbH as a 100 per... | With the launch of their “More and Better Jobs for Arkansas Initiative,” Arkansas Govern... |
A Nobel laureate who helped create the technology that made the Internet possible has been pre... | JDSU announced that San Jose, Calif.-based ADVA Optical Networking is the recipient of JDSU’s... |
In collaboration with microcontroller supplier Renesas Technology, Walleye Technologies demonstrated... | Scientific and laboratory laser distributor Opto Engine LLC announced an agreement with Laserpoint S... |
AFL Telecommunications has opened its second fiber optic facility in Swindon, UK, to support the Eur... | Zygo Corp., a worldwide supplier of optical metrology instruments and high precision optical systems... |
The Saito Optics division of Edmund Optics, has expanded its precision optical manufacturing capabil... | GigOptix, Inc. increased its revenue guidance for the third quarter of 2010. The company supplies hi... |
Spectranetics Corp. announced today that Emile J. Geisenheimer will retire from his position as chai... | The Riverside Co. announced the acquisition of the Life Sciences and Industrial Division of Quebec-b... |
Electronic design automation provider Synopsys Inc. announced Thursday that it has extended its engi... | Premier materials supplier Indium Corp. announced that Brook Sandy was hired as a product support sp... |
The Thompson Group announced Tuesday that it has acquired process analytical instruments maker Appli... | Dymax Corp. announced the appointment of Luis Kowalewski as its new sales manager for Europe.
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Entech Solar Inc. announced that it will submit its latest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) product ... | NoblePeak Vision, a once-promising developer of camera cores that integrate germanium photodetectors... |
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. reports its maritime laser system now shows "higher lethal... | Microfabrication company Potomac Photonics announced Friday that it purchased a Coherent Inc. excime... |
LED lighting technologies and solutions manufacturer Bridgelux Inc. announced the dedication of its ... | The OSA Foundation (OSAF) announced recently the launch of a newly designed and enhanced website, ww... |
Working with regional venture capitalists and led by Princeton University, The National Science Foun... | Oclaro Inc., an optical communications and laser products manufacturer, announced recently the openi... |
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus funds from the... | Laser Components (UK) Ltd. announced a distribution partnership with Peabody, Mass.-based SemiNex Co... |
Columbia Research Laboratories Inc. has launched a new website that provides access to technical inf... | Microvision Inc., a provider of ultraminiature projection display technology, announced that it has ... |
Industrial laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. said Friday that it has acquired Switzerland-ba... | Business
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the b... | Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the German national m... |
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COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Oct. 28, 2010 — A team co-led b... | The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections is well-known, causi... |
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an enormous amount of buckyb... | In the past decades, setups for trapping single particles have played a key role in high precision q... |
Highly detailed magnetic resonance images (MRI) of a mammalian brain are now available to researcher... | CEA-Leti, a European research and development institute in the field of silicon photonics technology... |
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have... | European scientists and engineers have joined forces to pursue a visionary concept to employ photoni... |
Sofradir and its subsidiary, ULIS, announced that IR technologies from both firms will be on display... | A tabletop instrument that produces synchrotron X-rays, whose energy and quality rivals that produce... |
Recently published research performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) m... | A new hybrid incandescent-shaped light bulb that combines the instant brightness of halogen technolo... |
Laser treatment has become common practice for beauticians and dermatologists who use laser pulses t... | The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL... |
For the first time scientists have been able to watch nanoparticles grow from the earliest stages of... | Optical gyroscopes, also known as rotation sensors, are widely used as navigational tools in vehicle... |
A new infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) is being used to help recognize microsleep episodes in ... | Scientists have demonstrated a laser-based “molecular fingerprinting” technique that can... |
Asylum Research, a manufacturer of scanning probe and atomic force microscopy (SPM/AFM) equipment, h... | Universal Display Corp. has delivered eight wrist-mounted phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) displays buil... |
Scientists of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) are currently developing a laser suitable for us... | University of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline wants to see high school students usi... |
Researchers at the University of Freiburg are working to overcome a key problem of light microscopy ... | The conversion of near-infrared 1300-nm-wavelength single photons emitted from a true quantum source... |
The National Science Foundation has announced funding for Dr. Yi Guo’s research at Stevens... | Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in e... |
The deadline for submitting research and work to the new Optical Society of America topical meeting ... | A spectroradiometrically calibrated USB4000 spectrometer from Ocean Optics is helping dentists to us... |
University of Michigan scientists using AFOSR-funding have created the smallest pixels available tha... | Using a method called photostimulation, scientists at the University of Bonn have altered cardiac mu... |
Using a new laser surgery technique, MIT engineers have successfully delivered drugs that regenerate... | A newly discovered class of organic substances that emit white light with a continuous spectrum is p... |
Researchers at Queen’s University have discovered how molecules in glass or plastic are able t... | Plasmonic Nanobubbles Kill Cancer Cells
HOUSTON, Oct. 6, 2010 — Rice Plasmonic nanobubbles... |
Using an optical sensor to decode laser light that measures the temperature and composition of broke... | Ultrafast Mid-IR Laser Scalpel Leaves Tiny Scars
TORONTO, Oct. 6, 2010, — A new laser tech... |
NoblePeak Vision, a once-promising developer of camera cores that integrate germanium photodetectors... | Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. reports its maritime laser system now shows "higher lethal... |
The color of single photons in a fiber optic cable has been changed for the first time. The laser-tw... | While refining their novel method for making nanoscale wires, chemists at the National Institute of ... |
Two Russian expatriates who discovered graphene — the thinnest and strongest form of carbon known — ... | Getting an inside look at the center of a cell can be as easy as a needle prick, thanks to Universit... |
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus funds from the... | Research that began as a high school science fair project involving a shiny Brazilian beetle may ult... |
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