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Coherent Acquires Beam Dynamics
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 5, 2010 — In a move aimed at strengthening its position in the low- to mid-power materials processing space, laser maker Coherent Inc. announced it has acquired privately held laser machining centers manufacturer Beam Dynamics of San Carlos, Calif., for an undisclosed amount. Beam Dynamics’ laser machine tools are used in a variety of cutting applications, including plastics, fabric, leather, rubber, metal, ceramics and wood, for customers ranging from regional machine shops to Fortune 500...
Coherent, SiOnyx Partner to Develop Black Silicon
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 5, 2010 — Coherent Inc. and SiOnyx Inc. announced they will partner to evaluate and develop SiOnyx's black silicon material for solar applications. Black silicon offers a number of advantages for the solar industry, including reduction of cost, an increase in...
Spectros Sells Patent to Philips
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif., May 5, 2010 — Spectros Corp. announced it will sell an optical biotechnology-related patent to Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. The purchase price was not disclosed. The patent concerns multispectral pulse oximetry technology developed by Spectros. Pulse...
104 W EUV Light Source Output Achieved
OYAMA, Japan, May 4, 2010 — Gigaphoton Inc., a lithography light source manufacturer, announced that an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source developed by the technology consortium Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association has achieved 104 W — the...
T-Ray Grants Toptica Tech License
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 4, 2010 — Terahertz (THz) research company T-Ray Science Inc. announced it has granted a licensing agreement to Toptica Photonics Inc., a THz source supplier. Under the terms of the agreement, the former company will collect royalties on the US sales of the...
Indium, Ormet Ink Support Deal
CLINTON, N.Y., May 3, 2010 — Indium Corp., a materials supplier for the global electronics, semiconductor, solar, thin film and thermal management markets, has signed a joint marketing and technical support agreement for high-temperature lead-free (Pb-free) electronics assembly...
IPG Photonics Profit Surges 167%
OXFORD, Mass., May 3, 2010 — Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. today reported first quarter 2010 net income of $3.4 million, or 7 cents a share, more than double the $1.3 million it earned during the same time period a year ago. Revenue for the quarter rose 13 percent...
LED Lighting Alliance Unveiled
KARLSRUHE, Germany, May 3, 2010 — Everlight Electronics Co., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan; Lighting Competence Center GmbH (LCC), the R&D center of Everlight Electronics Europe, located in Karlsruhe, Germany; and Texas-based Aphos Lighting have joined to form the Zenaro...
Technology Doubles Oscilloscope Bandwidth up to 60 GHz
CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y., May 3, 2010 — Serial data test solutions provider LeCroy Corp. announced that the sixth-generation of digital bandwidth interleave (DBI) technology has been demonstrated successfully in its design labs in New York. The latest generation of technology will...
Laservision to Hold Laser Safety Officers Workshop
BERKELEY, Calif., April 30, 2010 — Laservision announced that it will participate in the annual Laser Safety Officers Workshop July 27-29 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The company will exhibit at the workshop, as well as conduct a mini-workshop on its EyePro software....
Olympus Canada to Distribute Hitachi Tabletop SEM
MARKHAM, Ontario, April 30, 2010 — Hitachi High-Technologies Canada has partnered with Olympus Canada Inc., naming the latter company as the exclusive distributor of its TM3000 tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) in Canada. The fully-automated, tabletop SEM can achieve...
Renesas Electronics Enters Blue-Violet Laser Market
TOKYO, April 30, 2010 — Semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics Corp. announced the release of its first blue-violet semiconductor laser diode with a wavelength of 405 nm and a new structure that incorporate an optical waveguide into the semiconductor device...
Flir Q1 Profit Up Slightly
PORTLAND, Ore., April 29, 2010 — Flir Systems reported net income of $55.9 million for the first quarter of 2010, up only slightly over the $54.3 million it reported in the first quarter of 2009. Earnings for both quarters amounted to 35 cents a share. The thermal imaging and...
Hybridyne Medical Imaging System OK’d by FDA
TORONTO, April 29, 2010 — Hybridyne Imaging Technologies Inc. announced it has received FDA clearance for its ProxiScan system. Using planar imaging techniques, the system can be used in imaging the distribution of radionuclides in the human body. It may also be used...
Management Change at SME
HAMBURG, Germany, April 29, 2010 — Sharp Microelectronics Europe (SME) has announced that with the beginning of the new financial year starting April 1, it has added new management to the company. David Woodward, the former vice president of sales, will now head the company as its...
Plasma-Therm Sells 3 Versaline PECVD Systems
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 29, 2010 — Plasma process equipment supplier, Plasma-Therm LLC announced that it has sold three Versaline PECVD systems to a South Korean LED manufacturer. The systems were purchased to meet the capacity expansion needs for high-quality dielectric film...
Women’s Hall of Fame Welcomes Poyneer
LIVERMORE, Calif., April 29, 2010 — Lisa Poyneer has been inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in adaptive optics and the development of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), which will be the world’s most powerful astronomical adaptive optics...
Avantes Adds Sales Application Engineer
EERBEEK, The Netherlands, April 28, 2010 — To continue to provide its customers with sales and technical support, Avantes BV has expanded its US headquarters team with the addition of a new sales engineer. Paul Murphy has joined the company and will be based in New Hampshire, supporting...
Genesis Photonics Orders Multiple Veeco MOCVD Systems
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., April 28, 2010 — Veeco Instruments Inc. has received orders for multiple TurboDisc K465i gallium nitride (GaN) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) systems from Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) of Taiwan. The systems will be utilized to increase...
Optimax Makes Toroidal Optics for BNL
ONTARIO, N.Y., April 28, 2010 — Optimax Systems Inc., a precision optical components provider, announced that it has developed the capabilities to manufacture synchrotron mirrors for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The company has successfully manufactured toroidal...
32M LED LCD TV Market Forecast for 2010
SEOUL, South Korea, April 27, 2010 — Displaybank, a market research and consulting company for the display and solar industries, has announced that the edge-type LED BLU (backlight unit) technology used in LED LCD TVs is showing rapid advancement. Edge-type technology that places LEDs...
Thermo Fisher Opens Global Response Center
DREIEICH, Germany, April 27, 2010 — The science serving company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced a global food testing laboratory has been opened to help solely contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises. Thermo Fisher Scientific opens the global Food...
Bruker Nabs NIST Contract for AFM
BERLIN, Germany, April 26, 2010 — Bruker has announced that it has been awarded a $1.1 million contract to supply a customized N8 Titanos large-sample atomic force microscope (AFM) to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The instrument will be used by...
Keithley to Host Free Webinar on Characterization
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 26, 2010 — Keithley Instruments Inc., an advanced electrical test instruments and systems provider, announced it will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled, “Fundamentals of Ultrafast I-V Device Characterization,” on April 29, 2010. The...
Kopin Displays Target 3-D Market
TAUNTON, Mass., April 26, 2010 — Kopin Corp., a manufacturer of mobile display technology, has begun volume production of its CyberDisplay VGA (video graphics array) and WVGA (wide video graphics array) LVS displays. With 3.75 × 11.25-µm color dots, the full-color...

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