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Weekly News: GlobalFoundries’ Packaging and Photonics Center; Quantinuum to Build R&D Center (1/23/2025)

Weekly News: GlobalFoundries’ Packaging and Photonics Center; Quantinuum to Build R&D Center

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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Weekly News

GlobalFoundries' Packaging and Photonics Center in N.Y., Metal Foam Enables Brightest X-Ray Source

GlobalFoundries announces plans to create an advance packaging and photonics center at its facility in Malta, NY. In acquisition news, Headwall acquires EVK and Praevium becomes a division of Thorlabs. The European Union approves Synopsys' plans to purchase Ansys, under certain conditions. The DOE selects six projects to receive funding for the development of fusion energy. And a team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is using metal foam to enable the world's brightest X-ray source. Sponsored by Nyfors Teknologi AB and LightPath Technologies.

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Quantinuum to Build R&D Center in New Mexico

Integrated quantum computing company Quantinuum plans to open a location in New Mexico to support collaborative research efforts that advance the photonics technologies underpinning the company’s product development. The facility is expected to open later this year. Read Article

New Metal Foams Enable World’s Brightest X-Ray Source

By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF)’s X-ray laser and ultralight metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have produced the brightest X-ray source to date — about twice as bright as previous solid metal versions. Read Article

Time-Shared Optical Tweezers Simplify Study of Viscoelasticity and Aging

A technique to study the link between physiological aging and disease, from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), uses single-laser-based optical tweezers to measure the viscoelasticity of biological materials as they mature. Read Article

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