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Cambrios Awarded DoD Contract for PV Cells
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 13, 2010 — Cambrios Technologies Corp. announced that it has been awarded a Department of Defense contract to produce lightweight, flexible solar energy photovoltaics (PV). The contract represents the company’s first public announcement regarding the feasibility of using ClearOhm, a transparent, conductive, liquid material used to manufacture various electronics, as the electrode of a PV cell. Under the contract with the DoD, US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering...
Essen Instruments Changes Name, Relocates
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 13, 2010 — Life science research tools and discovery services provider Essen Instruments Inc. has announced a corporate name change to Essen Bioscience Inc. Additionally, the company has moved its world headquarters to a newly renovated site in Ann...
Zeiss Launches Femtosecond-Only Laser Vision Corrections
DUBLIN, Calif., April 13, 2010 — Carl Zeiss Meditec AG announced that ReLEx, the first femtosecond-only method of laser vision correction, is now available for sale outside the United States. The new application, ReLEx, allows ophthalmic surgeons to perform a variety of...
$5M Metrology Order
Apr 12, 2010 — Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., a process characterization equipment and software provider, has received $5 million worth of orders from a long-standing customer for its S3000A and MetaPulse III thin-film metrology systems. Expected to...
3-D: Coming soon to a TV near you?
AUSTIN, Texas – The development of 3-D television has become an area of intense interest to manufacturers, according to market analysis firm DisplaySearch in its Quarterly TV Design and Features Report. The company notes that the manufacturers are seeking to retain...
Blue LED Order
Apr 12, 2010 — Aixtron AG of Aachen, Germany, has announced that Formosa Epitaxy Inc. of Lung-Tan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, has ordered multiple metallorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactors to be used in the production of ultrahigh-brightness InGaN-based blue...
Cornell Funds Nanoscience Projects
ITHACA, N.Y., April 12, 2010 — The Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science has named Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, as the director, while David A. Muller, associate professor of applied and engineering physics, will serve as co-director. ...
Distribution Agreement
Apr 12, 2010 — Fremont, Calif.-based Solyndra Inc., a cylindrical photovoltaic systems manufacturer, has signed a distribution agreement with Advanced Green Technologies of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a renewable energy solutions and building-integrated solar energy...
Eco-friendly lighting will shine at show
TOKYO – Green lighting technologies will be featured at the second LED/OLED Lighting Technology Expo – also known as Lighting Japan 2010 – which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight, the nickname for the Tokyo International Exhibition Center....
European Distribution
Apr 12, 2010 — Avo Photonics Inc. and AMS Technologies AG have entered into a distribution agreement that entitles the latter to represent the former’s capabilities in the European market. Avo, of Horsham, Pa., provides advanced contract design, prototyping...
Fiber Distribution
Apr 12, 2010 — 3SAE Technologies Inc. of Franklin, Tenn., a manufacturer of large-diameter fiber fusion splicing and preparation technologies, has signed a consulting and distribution agreement with DPM Photonics of Vernon, Conn., a fiber optics consulting...
Fiber-Based Solar Cell Earns Patent
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 12, 2010 — A promising new solar cell, developed out of Wake Forest University, has received its first formal patent from the Euopean Patent Office. According to Dr. David Carroll, the director of Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular...
Headquarters Relocated
Apr 12, 2010 — FiconTec Service GmbH has moved its corporate headquarters to Achim, Germany, because of the increased demand for automated photonic assembly projects solutions. The new facility offers sufficient capacity to address the boost from the introduction...
Insight Acquired
Apr 12, 2010 — L-3 Communications of New York, a supplier of products and services for the aerospace and defense industries, has unveiled that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Insight Technology Inc. of Londonderry, N.H., a night-vision and...
JPK Appoints Sales Manager
BERLIN, April 12, 2010 — JPK Instruments, a manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Field as sales manager for the UK and Ireland. Field earned a bachelor’s in chemistry...
Large Order Installation
Apr 12, 2010 — In Dresden, Germany, AIS Automation Dresden (AIS) received a large order to install its manufacturing execution system (VPC-MES) for the factory currently under construction in Arnstadt. To be used for manufacturing crystalline solar cells, the...
NAVAIR Contract
Apr 12, 2010 — In Chelmsford, Mass., McPherson Inc., a manufacturer of dispersive spectrometers, has been contracted by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) for design and production of a spectral test, calibration and light delivery system. The Spectral Test System...
New Company Formed
Apr 12, 2010 — Innovation Photonics of Verona, N.J., has been established by Don Wilson, founder of Special Optics and of Optics for Research. The new company, nicknamed innpho, is engaged in optical components, engineering, design and manufacturing, with an...
Optelecom-NKF Sells EO Unit to Nufern
GERMANTOWN, Md., April 12, 2010 — Video surveillance equipment maker Optelecom-NKF Inc. announced Monday it will sell its Electro Optics coil manufacturing business to Nufern for $1.4 million. The Electro Optics unit makes fiber optic gyroscope coils, primarily for the US...
Prosilica Renamed
Apr 12, 2010 — Prosilica Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is now fully integrated into the Allied Vision Technologies group and has been renamed Allied Vision Technologies Canada Inc. Acquired in July 2008, the Canadian camera manufacturer’s GigE...
PV Cell Facility Launched
Apr 12, 2010 — Solar energy systems provider Kyocera Corp. of Kyoto, Japan, has finished construction of its solar cell manufacturing plant in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture. The facility will be the core production site for the company’s newly enhanced...
SmartKem Appoints Griffiths as Senior Scientist
ST. ASAPH, North Wales, April 12, 2010 — The developer of novel materials and processes that create high-resolution microelectronic components directly onto thin flexible printed electronics, SmartKem Ltd. announced it has appointed Russell Griffiths to the position of senior scientist. In...
Solar Contract
Apr 12, 2010 — Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl, Germany, has received a €19 million contract from a European solar cell manufacturer to produce a new generation of thin-film solar cells. The company’s new processing system for thin-film solar...
Solar Plant Built
Apr 12, 2010 — Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo has announced that PV (Photovoltaic) Cell Plant #2 has been built at its Nakatsugawa Works Iida Factory in Nagano Prefecture. By March 2011, the company will raise its annual PV module production capacity by 50 to...
Solar Purchase
Apr 12, 2010 — Zhejiang Hongchen Photovoltaic Energy Co. Ltd. of Zhuji City, China, has purchased additional PV1200 photovoltaic metallization lines from DEK Solar, a screen printing specialist based in Zurich, Switzerland. As part of the former’s drive to...

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