Jul 16, 2004 — SALT LAKE CITY, July 16 -- The MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and The ATM Forum announced this week they will merge and form a single organization to advance the deployment of multivendor, multiservice, packet-based networks, associated applications and interworking solutions. The groups said the merger will create a unified industry association with a combined membership of more than 100 companies representing the world's major service providers, equipment vendors, software and silicon suppliers...

Jul 16, 2004 — SOMERSET, N.J., July 16 -- New Jersey compound semiconductor manufacturer Emcore Corp. announced it has acquired Corona Optical Systems, of Lombard, Ill., and Eau Claire, Wisc., in a cash-for-stock merger. Corona Optical Systems makes dime-size...

Jul 15, 2004 — Tim Hansen has been named CEO and a member of the board of Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., developer of medical optical imaging technology, including a system that uses laser technology and algorithms to create 3-D...

Jul 15, 2004 — MIDDLEFIELD, Conn., July 15 -- Zygo Corp., a supplier of optical metrology intruments, precision optics and electro-optical design and manufacturing services, announced it has received an order from the University of California, Lawrence Livermore...

Jul 15, 2004 — THORNWOOD, N.Y., July 15 -- Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, the Lucy Whittier Molecular and Diagnostic Core Facility at the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), and Palm Microlaser Technologies recently announced they are collaborating in research...

Jul 15, 2004 — SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 -- IBM scientists have reported a breakthrough in nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by directly detecting the faint magnetic signal from a single electron buried inside a solid sample. IBM said the milestone is a...

Jul 15, 2004 — MADISON, Wisc., July 15 -- A new technology developed by a research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uses a fiber optic probe to increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnoses by being a "third eye" during biopsies. Nimmi Ramanujam,...

Jul 14, 2004 — SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 -- The leading manufacturers of semiconductor equipment expect sales to increase 63 percent this year from the $22.2 billion posted in 2003, according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Consensus Forecast....

Jul 14, 2004 — Indium Corp. of America, a Clinton, N.Y.-based supplier of electronics assembly materials, announced it is being represented in New England by Jim McLenaghan, president of Creyr Innovation LLC, of East Greenwich, R.I. Creyr will service and sell...

Jul 14, 2004 — SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 -- The leading manufacturers of semiconductor equipment expect sales to increase 63 percent this year from the $22.2 billion posted in 2003, according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Consensus Forecast....

Jul 14, 2004 — BOTHELL, Wash., July 14 -- Aculight Corp. announced it has produced a 60-watt, 540-nm, frequency-doubled, large mode area (LMA) fiber laser system. The company said the system could enable the use of fiber lasers in applications that demand...

Jul 13, 2004 — Infinova, a Monmouth, N.J., manufacturer of products for video surveillance, access control systems and fiber optic communications, has hired Ray Bustamante as regional sales manager for California, Arizona and Nevada. Bustamante, who has more than...

Jul 13, 2004 — DENVER, July 13 -- Space Imaging's high-resolution Ikonos satellite imagery is being used by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to survey the cultivation of illicit crops in Afghanistan, Laos, Myanmar and Bolivia. One of the most...

Jul 13, 2004 — SALEM, N.H., July 13 -- Diversified Optical Products Inc. (Diop), a manufacturer of thermal imaging systems and optical components, has received a five-year, $9 million contract from BAE Systems, based in Lexington, Mass., to design and fabricate...

Jul 13, 2004 — BEDMINSTER, N.J. & MURRAY HILL, N.J., July 13 -- Lucent Technologies announced today it has been awarded a contract worth at least $5 billion to supply a wide variety of network equipment, software and services for Verizon Wireless's national...

Jul 12, 2004 — Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH announced it has proposed the transfer of core technologies from the recently acquired Bio-Rad CellScience division to its headquarters in Jena, Germany. Bio-Rad CellScience is a supplier of confocal and multiphoton microscopy...

Jul 9, 2004 — Indium Corp., a supplier of electronics assembly materials, has appointed Paul Salmon as director of marketing in Europe. Salmon has extensive experience in soldering products and sales-channel development and in marketing consumable products in the...

Jul 9, 2004 — WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Nearly 50 science teachers, along with volunteer experts, from the Los Angeles area and around the country will gather at the University of Southern California July 9-11 for training to launch Hands-On Optics (HOO), a...

Jul 8, 2004 — Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its miniature optocouplers have been incorporated into a new 80-inch plasma display panel (PDP) developed by Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. Optocouplers isolate sensitive circuitry from high-voltage surges by...

Jul 8, 2004 — SYLMAR, Calif., July 8 -- Quintessence Photonics Corp. (QPC), a developer of laser diode technology, recently announced it has demonstrated a prototype 2-D monolithic high-power array that emits light from the surface of a semiconductor. The optical...

Jul 8, 2004 — WOBURN, Mass., July 8 -- Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100°C (2012°F), self-contained within a "laboratory" no bigger than a child's shoe. The micro-hotplates are only a few dozen microns across...

Jul 7, 2004 — Dalsa Corp., a Waterloo, Ontario, maker of silicon chips and digital camera components, announced it has received an order for high-performance CCD image sensor chips from Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions, of Madison, Ala. The order,...

Jul 7, 2004 — NISKAYUNA, N.Y., July 7 -- GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric Co., announced today it has developed one of the best-performing diodes built from a carbon nanotube, which it said will enable smaller and...

Jul 7, 2004 — NISKAYUNA, N.Y., July 7 -- GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric Co., announced today it has developed one of the best-performing diodes built from a carbon nanotube, which it said will enable smaller and...

Jul 6, 2004 — Honeywell has granted a license to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. authorizing the use of a Honeywell US patent relating to liquid crystal displays (LCDs) found in a wide variety of electronic consumer products. The patented technology, which helps...