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Mitsubishi Electric Names New CEO
TOKYO, Feb. 18, 2010 – Electrical and electronic equipment manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has announced Kenichiro Yamanishi as its new president and chief executive officer. Effective April 1, Yamanishi will replace Setsuhiro Shimomura. Shimomura has been appointed Chairman at the company. Yamanishi joined the company in 1975, where he served as a researcher in the Applied Equipment Laboratory. He later became the executive officer and group president of its Corporate Total Productivity Management &...
Oerlikon Expands Into Spanish Market
TRUBBACH, Switzerland, Feb. 18, 2010 – Oerlikon Solar Ltd., a thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment supplier, has announced that Gadir Solar of Madrid, Spain, has used its amorphous thin film silicon PV technology at the solar fabrication plant in Cadiz, Spain. ...
Cornell Group Nabs Semiconductor Award
ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 17, 2010 – A team of Cornell University researchers that includes Mike Thompson, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has received the 2009 Semiconductor Equipment and Ma...
Mitsubishi Electric Sets PV Record
TOKYO, Feb. 17, 2010 – By reducing resistance loss in the cells, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., an electronic equipment manufacturer, has announced it has set two world records for photoelectric conversion efficiency in polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells. ...
Sony Enters Flow Cytometry Business
NEW YORK and TOKYO, Feb. 17, 2010 – Sony Corp. has acquired iCyt Mission Technology Inc. of Champaign, Ill., a producer of high-performance cell sorters used for stem cell and disease research, through its US subsidiary, Sony Corp. of America (SCA). With the acquisition, the...
2010 Wolf Prize Winners Announced
JERUSALEM, Feb. 16, 2010 – Three scientists will share the 2010 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for their contributions to the foundation of quantum physics, specifically for an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of Bell’s inequalities or extensions there of using...
II-VI Inks $40M Deal
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16, 2010 – Crystal growth technology company, II-VI Inc., announced an agreement between its subsidiary Exotic Electro-Optics and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control for the purchase of sapphire windows for the Joint Strike Fighter / F-35 Lightning II...
Kyocera Sets Conversion Efficiency Record
KYOTO, Japan, Feb. 12 , 2010 – Kyocera Corp. announced that it has achieved a new world record of 16.6 percent module efficiency (aperture-area efficiency of 17.3 percent) for multicrystalline silicon solar modules using 54 cells in the development stage. To achieve this...
NSF Award for Deep UV LEDs
COLUMBIA, S.C, Feb. 12, 2010 – Sensor Electronic Technology Inc. (SETI), announced that is has been awarded a Phase II SBIR award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $500,000 to further advance its De...
Philip Koen Joins Infinera Board
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2010 – Digital optical networking systems company, Infinera, announced that Philip Koen has joined the company’s board of directors. Koen was CEO of Savvis, an IT infrastructure services company, from March 2006 until January 2010. Prior to joining...
Stratophase Nets £2.5M from Investor
ROMSEY, UK, Feb. 12, 2010 — Stratophase Ltd., a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection, has secured £2.5 million (about $3.9 million) in follow-on funding from existing inv...
Corning Projects Growth in 2010
CORNING, N.Y., Feb. 11, 2010 – Consumer demand for LCD televisions, notebook computers and other personal communication devices has lead Corning Inc., to project an increase in sales and earnings for 2010. According to the company, Corning is also increasing its focus on...
JDSU Buying Agilent's 4G Test Unit
MILPITAS, Calif., Feb. 11, 2010 — JDSU today announced that it will acquire the Network Solutions communications test business of Agilent, including its 4G network verification and deployment products, for $165 million in cash. The Agilent unit being acquired has approximately...
T-Ray Science, ULeeds Collaborate
VANCOUVER, B.C., Feb. 11, 2010 – T-Ray Science Inc. has entered into a research collaboration with the University of Leeds in the UK to develop low-cost, pulsed and continuous wave (CW), fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) spectrometers that operate at telecom wavelengths. The commercial...
Keithley Reports Profitable Q1
CLEVELAND, Feb 9, 2010 -- Keithley Instruments Inc., a developer and producer of advanced electrical test instruments and systems, has announced results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter, ending Dec. 31, 2009. Net sales of $28.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal...
Linden Buys Hycor from Agilent
CHICAGO & SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2010 - Linden LLC, a Chicago-based health care private equity firm, has purchased Hycor Biomedical Inc. from Agilent Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Hycor, located in Garden Grove, Calif., manufactures in vitro diagnostic products for the...
NanoTech Alliance Tackles EUVL Challenges
ALBANY, N.Y. & VELDHOVEN, Netherlands, Feb. 9, 2010 – Sematech, a global consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, and ASML, provider of lithography systems for the chip industry based in The Netherlands, announced they have joined forces at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE)...
Specialised Imaging Opens US Office
TRING, UK, Feb. 9, 2010 – Specialised Imaging Ltd. is set to launch a North American partner company – Specialised Imaging Inc. – as of April this year. The new business will expand and develop support for the company’s product line, which includes ultra-high-speed imaging...
3S Displays Stable 1064nm Laser at High Power
NOZAY, France, Feb. 8, 2010 – French manufacturer of optical and optoelectronic components for telecommunication networks, 3S Photonics, demonstrated reliable pulsed-operation of its 1064nm wavelength-stabilized diode lasers at high power during a technical presentation at the...
Emcore to Sell Fiber Optics Interest
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., February 8, 2010 – Emcore Corp., a provider of compound semiconductor-based components, subsystems and systems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced that investment company, Tangshan Caofeidian Investment Corporation (TCIC), will purchase 60 percent...
Fluke Wins $1.4M Federal Grant
EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 8, 2010 -- Fluke Corp., a producer of handheld electronic test and measurement technology and electrical calibration, will receive $1.4 million in federal funds to create calibration tools fo...
Bruker Promotes Managers, Reports on Q4
BILLERICA, Mass., Feb. 5, 2010 – Provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, Bruker Corp. has announced management changes and its preliminary operating results for its fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009. ...
Franco-American Optical Alliances
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2010 – Last night, after the first day of the Photonics West Exhibition had wound down to a close, a gathering of Francophiles occurred at the nearby Westin Hotel. About 50 people arrived...
LightPath Achieves First Profitable Quarter
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 5, 2010 – For the first time in the company’s history, LightPath Technologies Inc. has reported a positive net income of $42,000 for the second quarter of the fiscal 2010. LightPath, a manufacturer of precision molded aspheric optics, glass products,...
Photonics West 2010 Sets Records
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 2010 — SPIE Photonics West completed its debut at the Moscone Center in San Francisco last week with the final attendance count at 18,327, a record for the event. The new venue was a hit with attendees, and provided welcome room for growth. Both the...

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