Clear Skies Solar Expands into Greece
Clear Skies Solar Inc. of New York, a developer and provider of solar power solutions, has opened a...
Machine Vision Hardware Market to Surge
The global machine vision hardware market is forecast to be worth $2.1 billion in 2012, up from...
Silicon Photonic Components Project Launched
BOOM, a research project on silicon photonic components, has been launched with a kickoff meeting...
Development Center Completed
Baumer Optronic GmbH has completed construction of the Baumer High-Tech Development Center, adding...
IR System May Enable Seeing in the Dark
Although cars with cameras for rear-view vision and with rotating headlights for peering around...
Foundation Names Laser Award Winner
Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH has selected the recipient of its second biennial international...
R&D Programme Begun
The UK Photonics Cluster has launched the Collaborative Partner Programme, an initiative to support...
Rigaku Forms Company
Rigaku Corp. of Tokyo has created Rigaku Innovative Technologies Europe sro, which will design,...
PI Opens UK Office
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, a manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision...
Integrated Photonics Alliance Is Created
Pirelli & C SpA has teamed up with CyOptics Inc. of Lehigh Valley, Pa., USA, to form an...
BLC, INO to Partner
INO (the National Optics Institute), based in Quebec City, has signed a cooperation agreement with...
Consortium Funds Biomedical Lasers
A European consortium led by the University of Dundee and including Toptica Photonics AG of Munich...
Companies to Advance High-Speed Networking
MergeOptics GmbH has partnered with Reflex Photonics of Mountain View, Calif., USA, to develop and...
Laser Vision R&D Slated
Schweisstechnische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt has partnered with Servo-Robot Inc. of St. Bruno,...
Osram to Promote OLED Mass Production
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH is coordinating a European Union research project to develop...
Multicountry Research Unit Is Created
The Swiss National Science Foundation in Bern and the German Research Foundation will give funding...
KTH, Comsol Enter Into Agreement
KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, has signed a three-year agreement with Comsol AB. The...
e2v to Equip Satellite
Thales Alenia Space of Cannes, France, has selected e2v technologies plc to equip the Sentinel 3...
Modulight, Vaisala Extend Agreement
Modulight Inc., a provider of solutions for optical applications, and Vaisala of Vantaa, a...
Crystal Systems Granted $250,000
Institut de la Lumière Extrême has awarded Crystal Systems Inc. of Salem, Mass., USA, $250,000 for...
EV Group to Supply STMicroelectronics
EV Group has received a multimillion-euro order for 300-mm bonding, alignment and photoresist...
Leica Acquires Histopathology Firms
Leica Microsystems GmbH has acquired the assets of McCormick Scientific LLC and its parent company,...
Orbotech to Buy Photon Dynamics
Orbotech Ltd. has signed an agreement to acquire Photon Dynamics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., USA,...
Hauzer Techno Coating Taken Over by IHI
A hard-coatings technology company, Hauzer Techno Coating BV, has been acquired by the IHI Group of...
Point Grey Research Relocates in Germany
Point Grey Research GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Point Grey Research Inc. of Vancouver,...
Lambert Instruments Moves to Larger Plant
Image intensifier company Lambert Instruments has moved from its Leutingewolde office to one in...
Allied Vision Opens Production Facilities
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH, a camera manufacturer, has inaugurated its production facilities...
AMS, Siskiyou Enter Into Agreement
Siskiyou Inc. of Grants Pass, Ore., USA, a producer of precision mechanical components, has...
Nanoco Technologies Appoints Asian Distributor
Nanoco Technologies Ltd., a privately held nanomaterials company, has named Kisco Ltd. of Tokyo as...
Elliot Scientific Chosen by Codixx
Codixx AG of Barleben, Germany, has appointed Elliot Scientific Ltd. as a distributor of its...
New Scale Technologies, austriamicrosystems to Partner
Analog chip specialist austriamicrosystems has been selected as a global nonexclusive distributor...
Arden Is Selected as Distributor for ESDI
Arden Photonics Ltd., a supplier of products and services to the optical fibre and photonics...
Admesy Chooses Ocean Optics as Its Distributor
Admesy BV, a producer of colour measurement technology, has named Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin,...
Solar Silicon Shortage
Power from the sun may help with the world’s energy crisis, but at the moment, the demand for solar...
Thick-SOI Market Predicted to Increase
Thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates — used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), in...
Machine Calibration
A measurement system that has the potential to bring laboratory-level standards to the...
Optical Sensor System Uses Artificial ‘Skins’
A sensor system relying on stretchable skinlike polymer films that could help patients avoid...
Edmund Optics Expands
Edmund Optics of Barrington, N.J., USA, has expanded its sales division, opening an office in Rome....
Positive Forecast for European Television Market
The European television market is expected to expand 28 per cent by 2012, according to findings...