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Azores Enhances 24-hour Tech Support
WILMINGTON, Mass., Feb. 25, 2010 – Azores Corp, manufacturer of advanced photolithography steppers for mobile display and X-ray sensor applications, has enhanced its 24-hour technical support service by adding regional staff located in Asia and the United States. Azores’ e-Diagnostics service provides members of Azores’ technical support team with real time information, such as calibration, hardware performance, and other functions critical to maintaining uptime of the photolithography system. According to the company,...
Cilas Unveils Optical Coatings Machine
ORLEANS, France, Feb. 25, 2010 – Cilas has started up its new optical coatings machine, PACA2M, said to be the largest in Europe using magnetron sputtering technology. The new machine is now operational in its Aubagne site in Southern France. PACA2M, a 18 meter (roughly 60 ft) long...
MRC Optics Nabs Lockheed Contract
NORTHVALE, NJ, Feb. 25, 2010 – MRC Optics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Photonics Products Group Inc. (PPGI), has been awarded firm-fixed price contracts for precision optical components from Lockheed Martin’s Missile and Fire Control Business Unit in Orlando, Fla. The...
Laser Photonics Taps New CEO
LAKE MARY, Fla., Feb. 24, 2010 -- Laser Photonics, a maker of fiber and CO2 laser equipment for material processing, announced that David Porter has been named CEO. Prior to joining Laser Photonics, Porter worked for more than six years with Harland Clarke Holdings Corp.,...
Laser Pioneers Honored at LaserFest Event
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 23, 2010 – The organizers of LaserFest, the celebration in 2010 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, together with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Hist...
LightPath Reports Demand for Molded Aspheres
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 23, 2010 – LightPath Technologies Inc. has reported an increase in demand in the market of molded aspheres for consumer and industrial laser tools. According to the company, current open orders for these products are valued over $1.8 million with more...
SVTC, AMST Partner for Anti-Stiction Coating
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 22, 2010 – SVTC Technologies, a commercialization service provider for emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, and Applied Microstructures Inc. (AMST), a provider of MEMS anti-stiction...
Tessera CTO Honored on Postage Stamp
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2010 – China’s government has named Robert Yung, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Tessera Technologies Inc., as one of its Top 60 World Chinese. As part of this honor, Yung will appear on a special-edition Chinese postal stamp...
ficonTec Moves Headquarters
ACHIM, Germany, Feb. 22, 2010 – ficonTEC Service GmbH has announced it has moved its corporate headquarters to Achim, Germany. With an increased demand for solutions of automated photonic assembly projects, the company needed a more efficient and larger manufacturing space....
Flir Expands to California
GOLETA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2010 - Flir Systems Inc., a designer of thermal imaging devices for commercial and military applications, has acquired two buildings from the Sares Regis Group, a real estate company head...
LaserMotive Appoints Two Top Execs.
KENT, Wash., Feb. 22, 2010 – LaserMotive, an independent R&D company specializing in laser power beaming technology, has announced the appointment of company co-founder Tom Nugent as president and technology industry veteran David Bashford as vice president of operations....
LightWorks Optics Opens New Facility
TUSTIN, Calif., Feb. 22, 2010 – LightWorks Optics Inc., a custom precision optical components and advanced integrated optics solutions company, will open a new 14,000-square-foot office and manufacturing facility this month, located adjacent to the company’s corporate headquarters...
Bruggeman Named CEO of SVTC
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2010 – SVTC Technologies, a commercialization service provider for emerging silicon-based technologies in areas such as CMOS, MEMS, photovoltaics and other related nanotechnologies, announced Bert Bruggeman has been named chief executive officer. ...
Call for Papers for euroLED
BIRMINGHAM, UK, Feb. 19, 2010 – Birmingham Science Park Aston (formerly Aston Science Park) is looking for speakers to contribute to the euroLED 2010 conference program. Last year, the event attracted 1340 delegat...
Industry Mourns Laser Pioneer
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Feb. 19, 2010 – Daniel J. Bradley, physicist and laser pioneer, died Feb. 7, 2010, in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. Bradley held chairs at Queen’s University in Belfast from 1966-1973, Imperial College London from 1973-1980, and Trinity College Dublin from...
NKT Taps Global Distribution Partners
BIRKERØD, Denmark, Feb. 19, 2010 – NKT Photonics A/S, manufacturer of supercontinuum sources and fiber lasers, is expanding its global distribution partner’s network. The partners include Photonic Solutions Plc. (UK...
PETEC Joins FDC
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 19, 2010 – The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University has announced that the Printable Electronics Technology Center (PETEC) has become an associate member to collaborate o...
UOttawa Chair Awarded to Berini
OTTAWA, Feb. 19, 2010 – Dr. Pierre Berini, a professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, has been awarded the University of Ottawa Chair in surface plasmon photonics. Establishe...
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...
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...

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