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NASA Presents Phase 2 Tech Awards
Jun 1, 2006 — NASA has selected 14 small high-technology businesses in eight states for Phase 2 of its 2004 Small Business Technology Transfer awards. The selected companies’ projects have a total value of approximately $8.4 million. Intended to continue development of the most promising Phase 1 projects, they are funded with contracts of up to $600,000 for a period of up to two years. The program is designed in part to stimulate technological innovation and to increase the use of small businesses in...
NEC Tokin Transfers Optical Device Business
Jun 1, 2006 — In Japan, NEC Tokin Corp. of Miyagi will transfer its optical device business to Seikoh Giken Co. Ltd. of Chiba. The former intends to focus on PC-related equipment, mobile phones, digital consumer electronics and automotive products, and to invest...
Networking Groups Merge
Jun 1, 2006 — The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF), a nonprofit organization including carriers, component manufacturers and system vendors, and the Network Processing Forum (NPF), an international consortium of networking semiconductor, software and OEM...
nm Laser Relocates
Jun 1, 2006 — Laser shutter producer nm Laser Products Inc. has moved to a custom-designed facility in San Jose, Calif., a short distance from its original headquarters in Sunnyvale. The new facility is equipped with a cleanroom, chemical processing and a machine...
OIDA Commissions Lumera, Duke University
Jun 1, 2006 — Lumera Corp. of Bothell, Wash., has announced that it has received an order from the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA). OIDA administers the Photonics Technology Access Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and...
OmniVision to Supply Image Sensors to Hella
Jun 1, 2006 — OmniVision Technologies Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has been selected to provide CMOS image sensors to Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. of Lippstadt, Germany, a supplier of automotive parts and accessories. Hella’s rearview camera system will employ the...
Optech Collaborates with Applied Imagery
Jun 1, 2006 — Optech Inc.’s Industrial & 3D Imaging Div. in Toronto will incorporate its automated alignment functionality, standard in its intelligent laser ranging and imaging systems, in Applied Imagery’s QT Modeler software. The collaboration will allow...
Pacer Acquires Rocotech Distribution Business
Jun 1, 2006 — In the UK, Pacer Components plc of Reading has acquired the distribution unit of Rocotech International Ltd. of Gerrards Cross. As a result of the transaction, Pacer is now the exclusive distributor for certain product lines from LightPath...
PI Wins Contract for Positioning Systems
Jun 1, 2006 — PI (Physik Instrumente) LP of Auburn, Mass., has received an order to supply 25 six-axis hexapod alignment systems and motion controllers to Vertex Antenna Systems, a unit of General Dynamics C4 Systems, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The customized...
Researchers Receive DoD Award
Jun 1, 2006 — Two researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have won an award of $309,600 from the US Department of Defense under its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, which supports the purchase of scientific equipment...
Rofin-Sinar Gains Stake in H2B Photonics
Jun 1, 2006 — Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. of Plymouth, Mich., has purchased a 40 percent stake in H2B Photonics GmbH of Garbsen, Germany. The latter develops, manufactures and sells laser-based systems that are used to cut brittle materials, such as glass, for...
Rudolph Receives Multiple-System Order
Jun 1, 2006 — Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has been awarded a multiple-system order from a US semiconductor manufacturer for its all-surface advanced macrodefect-detection system. The system consists of modules for front-side inspection, back-side...
Schott Plans Additional Facility in Germany
Jun 1, 2006 — Schott Solar Inc. of Rocklin, Calif., will build a €60 million facility in Jena, Germany, for producing thin-film solar electricity modules based on amorphous silicon. The manufacturing method, in which silicon is vapor-deposited on glass, requires...
Sharp to Open Plant in Poland for LCD Screens
Jun 1, 2006 — Sharp Electronics Corp., a global company, will build an LCD screen manufacturing facility in Torun, Poland. The screens will be exported to the company’s LCD television manufacturing facilities in Spain and Germany. The €44 million facility will...
Toyoda Gosei and Philips Share LED Patents
Jun 1, 2006 — Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. of Aichi, Japan, and Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. of San Jose, Calif., have entered into an agreement under which the companies and their subsidiaries will share patents for specific technologies in group III-V semiconductor...
Umicore Expands IR Glass Capabilities
Jun 1, 2006 — L-3 Communications Corp.’s Infrared Products Div. of Dallas will sell intellectual property, equipment and materials associated with chalcogenide infrared optical glass and lenses production capabilities to Umicore of Brussels, Belgium. The latter,...
Veeco to Support Lighting Research
Jun 1, 2006 — To develop materials and device technology for high-efficiency solid-state lighting, Veeco Instruments Inc. of Woodbury, N.Y., a provider of metrology and process equipment solutions for the manufacture of high-brightness LEDs, has been selected to...
Vistec Semiconductor Systems Is Launched
Jun 1, 2006 — Vistec Semiconductor Systems GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, unveiled its new corporate identity, including its new name and logo, at the Semicon Europe show in Munich, Germany, in April. Formerly known as Leica Microsystems, Semiconductor Equipment Div.,...
West Penn Power Invests in Plextronics
Jun 1, 2006 — The West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund has provided $500,000 to Plextronics Inc. of Pittsburgh, a developer of active-layer technology enabling broad market commercialization of printed electronic devices, to accelerate the development of...
Alfa Aesar Opens Branch in China
May 1, 2006 — Alfa Aesar of Ward Hill, Mass., has announced the formation of Alfa Aesar China. The operation includes the head office in Beijing, four regional sales offices and a facility in the Tianjin Economic Development Area that is outfitted for storage,...
Auxora Acquires Confluent Photonics
May 1, 2006 — Auxora Inc., a developer of optical communications technologies, has acquired Confluent Photonics Corp. of Salem, N.H., a provider of optical bandwidth expansion products for hybrid fiber coaxial networks. With the acquisition, the Baldwin Park,...
Ceramics Company Expands in Europe
May 1, 2006 — CoorsTek Inc., a supplier and manufacturer of ceramic components for high-technology applications in Golden, Colo., has acquired VZS/ Seagoe Advanced Ceramics Ltd. of Glenrothes, UK. The expansion allows CoorsTek to increase its localized...
Coherent Purchases Excel Technology
May 1, 2006 — Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has purchased Excel Technology Inc. of East Setauket, N.Y., a manufacturer of laser systems and electro-optical components, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $376 million. The agreement is subject to...
Companies Develop Microdisplay Technology
May 1, 2006 — Novalux Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has entered into a joint development and licensing agreement with Seiko Epson Corp. of Nagano, Japan, for illumination devices for microdisplay-based products. The California company will license its red-green-blue...
Dalsa Awarded Custom Contracts
May 1, 2006 — Dalsa Corp. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has received two contracts totaling $2.3 million from customers in the professional imaging and life sciences markets. The contracts cover the development, delivery and production of a high-performance...

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