Prism Awards Entry Deadline is Sept. 12
The submissions deadline for the first annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation is Sept. 12. The competition, sponsored by SPIE and Laurin Publishing, is based on the theme that Invention + Commer...
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Picarro Expands Sales, Marketing Team
Iain Green, PhD, and Mark Davis have joined Picarro Inc. as director of marketing and vice president of sales, respectively. Picarro, of Sunnyvale Calif., makes gas trace analyzers based on wavelength...
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Reliant, Philips Partner for Home Laser Skin Care
Reliant Technologies Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., developer of Fraxel laser systems, has announced an agreement with Philips, a health and well-being company, to develop skin care technologies for ...
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Athletic Retailer Orders Biodetectors
Universal Detection Technology (UDTT), a Beverly Hills, Calif., developer of bioterrorism and infectious agent monitoring technology and a provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training, announ...
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Veeco, Asylum Research Settle AFM Patent Dispute
Metrology and process equipment provider Veeco Instruments Inc. of Plainview, N.Y., announced today that it has settled the patent lawsuit it brought against Asylum Research Corp. in 2003 involving it...
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Beate Sauter to Head EO's Mediterranean Sales
Beate Sauter has been hired as regional sales manager, southern Europe and the Mediterranean, for Edmund Optics (EO), which has opened an office in Rome, Italy, for that region. Sauter has spent m...
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PIBM 2008 Call for Papers
The 7th International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine (PIBM 2008) will be held Nov. 24-27, 2008, at Wuhan Science & Technology Convention & Exhibition Center, Wuhan...
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Hong Kong Optical Engineering Society Launched
The Hong Kong Optical Engineering Society (HKOES), formerly the Hong Kong Chapter of SPIE, was recenty launched as an independent professional society. The new group will focus on optics promotion in ...
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FEI and Max Planck Collaborate on Correlative Microscopy
FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., a maker of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, announced today their collaboration on a co...
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NIH Tests Zecotek Green Fiber Laser
The National Cancer Institute (a division of the US National Institutes of Health) recently conducted tests on Zecotek Photonics Inc.'s green fiber laser (GFL-550) in flow cytometry. William Telford, ...
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II-VI Inc. Increases Thermoelectronics Investment in China
Engineered materials and components maker II-VI Inc. of Saxonburg, Pa., announced that it has made an additional investment in Guangdong Fuxin Electronic Technology Co. (Fuxin), based in Guangdong Pro...
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UK Photonics Cluster Forms R&D Collaboration
The UK Photonics Cluster announced it has launched the Collaborative Partner Programme (CPP) to support research and development companies by facilitating members' access to financial support, support...
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Zecotek Signs Deal with Japanese Distributor
Zecotek Photonics of Vancouver, British Columbia, a photonics technology company, has signed a distribution agreement with TEM Inc., a Japanese distributor of laser and electro-optical products. The a...
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Photonic Component Group to Distribute for Nanoplus
The Photonic Component Group, a division of Power Technology Inc. of Little Rock, Ark., announced it is the sole US distributor of nanoplus GmbH laser components, including quantum cascade, distribute...
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Theralase Hires Mark Lemieux
Theralase Technologies of Toronto, Ontario, a manufacturer of superpulsed laser technology, has hired Mark Lemieux as business development officer. Lemieux will concentrate on expanding North American...
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Metamaterials Pioneer to Receive IEEE Award
George V. Eleftheriades, PhD, will receive the 2008 Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for his research into negative refractive index metamaterials, IEEE announced today. Metamaterials have had a profound impac...
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Alan Fletcher Named VP at PerkinElmer
Life sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., announced that Alan Fletcher, PhD, has joined the company as vice president of business development for its Life and Analytical ...
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Photonics Society of Poland to Be Inaugurated
The Photonics Society of Poland (PSP) will hold its inaugural symposium May 31 at Warsaw University of Technology, said its president, Tomasz R. Wolinski, a member of the university's physics faculty....
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Molecular Imprints Hires 2 VPs
Nanopatterning systems provider Molecular Imprints Inc. of Austin, Texas, announced that Ben Eynon and Paul Hofemann have joined its management team as vice president of marketing and business develop...
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Former JDSU Exec. Joins Chiral Board
Stan Lumish, PhD, former chief technology officer at JDS Uniphase Corp. (JDSU), has joined the board of Chiral Photonics Inc., a Pine Brook, N.J., maker of optical components, lasers and displays. JDS...
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Tim McCann Joins Foss NIRSystems
Foss NIRSystems Inc. announced that Tim McCann has been hired as mid-Atlantic account manager, with sales responsibility for six Eastern states, the metropolitan New York area and eastern Canadian pro...
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Sydor Optics Moves All Operations to New HQ
Precision flat-surfaced parallel and wedged optics maker Sydor Optics announced it has completed moving all of its optics fabrication businesses in Rochester, Brighton and Fairport, N.Y., to its newly...
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Canon Plans 'Green' HQ on Long Island
Imaging products maker Canon USA Inc. announced it expects to file site plans today with the town of Huntington to construct a new, environmentally friendly Canon Americas headquarters on a 52-acre si...
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Modulight, Vaisala Extend Laser Supply Agreement
Modulight Inc. of San Jose, Calif., and Vaisala have extended a 2004 agreement, to 2010, to use Modulight laser diodes in Vaisala's DCS111 remote road-surface sensor. Vaisala is a Finland-based maker ...
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Wes Hardenburg Promoted to CEO at Rigaku Americas
Rigaku Americas Corp. of The Woodlands, Texas, announced today that Wes Hardenburg, its CFO since 2000, has been promoted to serve as its president and CEO. Hardenburg succeeds Paul Swepston, PhD,...
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NIST Seeks Science Research Building Proposals
The Department of Commerce’s (DoC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks grant proposals from higher-education institutions and nonprofit organizations for the construction of sc...
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Electro-Optical Products Relocating
Electro-Optical Products Corp. announced it will move to its new facility July 1. Its new address is: 6240 Forest Ave., 2nd Floor, Ridgewood, NY 11385; phone: (718) 456-6000, fax: (718) 456-6050. Elec...
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Sylvain Cloutier Receives DARPA Award
Sylvain G. Cloutier, PhD, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware (UD), is the university's first recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award. Cloutie...
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Terry Copeland Gets Top Post at Altair Nanotechnologies
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a Reno, NV.-based provider of advanced nanomaterials for use in energy, life sciences and industrial applications, announced today that its board of directors has named i...
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Salvador Imaging to Supply More Cameras to Raytheon
Raytheon Co. has awarded a follow-on production contract to imaging systems maker Salvador Imaging Inc. of Colorado Springs, Colo., to continue supplying high-performance surveillance cameras for a mu...
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ArtusLabs, BU to Expand Stereochemistry ID
ArtusLabs Inc., a Durham, N.C., provider of life science software and data management services, has entered into a partnership with Boston University’s Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Deve...
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Thermo Fisher, George Mason Team for Biomarker Research
Analytical instrument and equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., today announced an alliance with George Mason University in Fairvax, Va., to accelerate protein biomarker val...
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Bruno Guilmart Joins Lattice Semiconductor as CEO
Lattice Semiconductor of Hillsboro, Ore., a provider of programmable logic and other devices for industrial, computing, communications, automotive, medical and military markets, today announced that i...
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PerkinElmer Appoints Michael Battles Interim CFO
Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., announced that Vice President and Controller Michael L. Battles has been named interim chief financial officer (CFO). PerkinEl...
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Peter Sulick Joins Dynasil Board
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America of West Berlin, N.J., announced that Peter Sulick will join its board of directors as audit committee chairperson and financial expert. Sulick founded media ...
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