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Bakman Awarded $724K UAV Spectrometry Grant from NSF
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4, 2018 — Terahertz (THz) system and component developer Bakman Technologies LLC has been awarded a $724,000 Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to continue the development of a low-cost, high-performance, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted THz spectrometer. After completing the Phase I portion of the NSF grant earlier this year, Bakman has taken the first steps toward realizing a sensor platform capable of
BeBop Sensors Wins IDTechEx Wearable Award
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 4, 2018 — Fabric sensor technology developer BeBop Sensors Inc. has won the Best New Material Award at the 2018 IDTechEx Wearable USA Awards for its wearable fabric sensor technology. The Wearable USA Awards recognize company developments and successes that...
Quinsigamond Community College’s Manufacturing Program Receives $10K Grant
WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 3, 2018 — Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) recently received a $10,000 Gene Haas Foundation Grant. Developed by Gene Haas, owner of Haas Automation Inc., the largest machine tool builder in the Western world, the foundation was formed in 1999 to support...
UA College of Optical Sciences Receives $20M Gift for Faculty Endowed Chairs
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 3, 2018 — The University of Arizona (UA) College of Optical Sciences announced that it has received a $20 million pledge to support 10 new endowed faculty positions. The gift comes from the college's founding dean, Professor Emeritus James C. Wyant, and his...
WaveOptics Signs Deal with Google Supplier Goertek
ABINGDON, England, Nov. 30, 2018 — WaveOptics has signed a deal with Goertek to mass produce waveguides for augmented reality (AR) glasses. Waveguides are lenses that guide light from a tiny projector to the glass of AR devices, allowing virtual objects to be overlaid on the real...
Teledyne Image Sensors Power Cameras Aboard NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars
WATERLOO, Canada, Nov. 29, 2018 — Teledyne DALSA is participating in NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars by providing color CCD image sensors for both the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and the Instrument Context Camera. Teledyne has partnered with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...
MSU’s Shaw Awarded 2019 G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization
BOZEMAN, Mont., Nov. 29, 2018 — Joe Shaw, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Montana State University’s Optical Technology Center, has been named the 2019 recipient of the G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization by SPIE, the...
SPI Lasers UK Purchases Rugby UK Site
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Nov. 29, 2018 — Fiber laser developer SPI Lasers UK Ltd. has purchased an 8.1-acre Rugby-based manufacturing site from its landlord, Kedaho Investments Ltd., in a deal worth £10.3 million ($13.2 million). The purchase will expand SPI’s manufacturing footprint in...
MVTec’s Steger Elected Technical Committee Spokesman for DAGM
MUNICH, Nov. 28, 2018 — Carsten Steger, director of research at MVTec Software GmbH, has been elected spokesman of the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM). Carsten Steger DAGM focuses on research and promotion of scientific work in...
NJIT Team Wins Augmented World Expo Europe Awards
NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 28, 2018 — A team of engineers, game designers, artists, and clinicians led by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has won two international awards for its vision therapy program at the 2018 Augmented World Expo Europe conference for augmented...
Legrand, Lumileds Enter Partnership
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 27, 2018 — Legrand and Lumileds have announced a partnership agreement to bring a plug-and-play, tunable, white light to market. Under this agreement, Lumileds will provide its Luxeon-based intelligent light sources through its Matrix Platform. The devices are...
US University Consortium Receives $10M Grant for Machine Learning Security
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 27, 2018 — A team of U.S. computer scientists is receiving a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make machine learning more secure. The grant establishes the Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning, which is a consortium of U.S....
REDFINCH Consortium Detects Gas with Light, Sound
GRENOBLE, France, Nov. 26, 2018 — Events such as the Port of Rizhao gas plant explosion in China that killed 173 people and injured hundreds of others in 2015; the explosion at the U.S.’s third largest refinery in Texas City, Texas, in 2005; and the Buncefield oil storage...
ASML, Imec to Establish a Joint Lab, Accelerate Adoption of EUV Lithography
LEUVEN, Belgium, Nov. 26, 2018 — Research and innovation hub imec and lithographic equipment developer ASML have entered the next stage of their extreme UV (EUV) lithography collaboration. Together, they will accelerate the adoption of EUV lithography for high-volume production,...
Laser Components, Fraunhofer Partner for Lidar Technology
BEDFORD, N.H., Nov. 26, 2018 — Laser Components GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS) have signed a cooperation agreement for lidar technology. Researchers will contribute new sensor technologies that promise particularly precise...
Tohoku, Advantest Develop In Vivo Skin Imaging Technology
TOKYO, Nov. 26, 2018 — An R&D group led by Professor Yoshifumi Saijo of Tohoku University and Noriyuki Masuda of Advantest Europe GmbH has succeeded in developing in vivo skin imaging technology that can simultaneously generate dual-wavelength photoacoustic images and...
UTA’s Magnusson Awarded $360K NSF Grant for Photonic Lattices
ARLINGTON, Texas, Nov. 26, 2018 — Robert Magnusson, the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics and an electrical engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), will use a $360,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for...
Berliner Glas Expands Berlin HQ, Adds Staff
BERLIN, Nov. 21, 2018 — The Berliner Glas Group completed a €30 million ($34 million) expansion of its production area and associated capacities at its Berlin site. The production area rose to 31,780 sq m, and 87 employees joined the facility, providing a total of 891...
Heliatek Installs PV Films on Duisburger Hafen
FOREST, England, Nov. 21, 2018 — Approximately 185 sq m of Heliatek’s organic photovoltaic films were installed on the warehouse of Duisburger Hafen AG, the operator of the world’s largest inland port. As a subproject within the Drehkreuz Energiewende cooperation agreement, which...
Karlsson to Lead HÜBNER Photonics
KASSEL, Germany, Nov. 21, 2018 — Håkan Karlsson has been appointed the head of HÜBNER Photonics. Karlsson will lead all of the HÜBNER Group’s laser activities worldwide. In 2001, Karlsson co-foundered Cobolt AB.
Stemmer Imaging Acquires Stake in Perception Park
PUCHHEIM, Germany, Nov. 21, 2018 — Machine vision technology developer Stemmer Imaging AG has acquired a stake in Perception Park GmbH, based in Graz, Austria. Perception Park operates in the field of machine vision, with its expertise lying in chemical color imaging (CCI) software...
UK Consortium Awarded Grant for Miniaturized RGB Laser Source
DALGETY BAY, Scotland, Nov. 21, 2018 — PowerPhotonic Ltd., Fraunhofer UK, Optoscribe Ltd., and Optocap Ltd. have been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop novel optics for miniaturized RGB laser sources as part of a £900,000 ($1.2 million) project. The co-funding will be used to...
EMCORE Awarded $4M Contract for Maritime Navigation
ALHAMBRA, Calif., Nov. 20, 2018 — Mixed-signal optics provider EMCORE Corp. has been awarded a contract valued at more than $4 million to design and manufacture navigational-grade inertial navigation systems for maritime applications. These systems will be based on the EMCORE-Orion...
Swain Joins Jenoptik’s Silicon Valley Application Center
JUPITER, Fla., Nov. 20, 2018 — Optical systems developer Jenoptik has appointed Robin Swain senior director of the Silicon Valley Application Center. Swain will lead the company’s applications center in Fremont, Calif., and be responsible for developing and executing new...
NIMS Restructures Red Phosphor Licensing
TSUKABA, Japan, Nov. 20, 2018 — The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Japanese scientific research center, has split the licensing for its comprehensive patent on red phosphor. The patent, which has been licensed to phosphor manufacturing companies, has been...

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