CAPE Alliance Funds Research
Feb. 28, 2006
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2006 -- A new research project will explore novel materials with dielectric...
LLNL Awards $6.8M for More Sensors
Feb. 28, 2006
BLACKWOOD, N.J., Feb. 28, 2006 -- Adaptive Optics Associates Inc., a maker of electro-optic and...
World’s Longest Laser Invented
Feb. 24, 2006
BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 24, 2006 -- Researchers at Aston University in Birmingham, England, claim...
Engineers Honor 'New Faces' 2006
Feb. 23, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 23, 2006 -- Designers of thrill rides, art museum gallery galleries and...
Engineers Honor 'New Faces' 2006
Feb. 23, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 23, 2006 -- Designers of thrill rides, art museum gallery galleries and...
Coherent Buys Excel Technology
Feb. 21, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 21, 2006 -- Laser maker Coherent Inc. announced today that it is...
NEC Develops Fiber Optic Nano-Probe
Feb. 21, 2006
TOKYO, Feb. 21, 2006 -- NEC said today it used a nanotechnology process to develop what it claims...
Micron Buys Zilog's CMOS Fab
Feb. 21, 2006
BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 21, 2006 -- CMOS image sensor maker Micron Technology Inc. has bought a vacant...
Vocalscape to Buy Azatel
Feb. 21, 2006
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2006 -- Voice over IP (VoIP) provider Vocalscape Networks Inc....
Nano Conference to Mark AFM, STM Invention
Feb. 20, 2006
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 20, 2006 -- The International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology...
Textron Awarded $10M for SS Laser
Feb. 17, 2006
WILMINGTON, Mass., Feb. 17, 2006 -- Textron Systems, a high-power laser developer for the defense...
DoE Seeks Bids to Manage PNNL
Feb. 17, 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 17, 2006 -- For the first time in 41 years, the government will seek...
Breault Advises Rochester Cluster
Feb. 17, 2006
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 17, 2006 -- Robert Breault, a founder and co-chairman of the Tucson-based...
NSF Funds UMass Robot, Sensor Studies
Feb. 17, 2006
AMHERST, Mass., Feb. 17, 2006 -- Robot navigation and data gathered from smart sensors are the...
PI Moves US West Coast Office to Irvine
Feb. 16, 2006
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2006 -- PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a manufacturer of nanopositioning and...
Reding to Address Photonics Europe
Feb. 16, 2006
CARDIFF, England, Feb. 16, 2006 -- "Europe at Light Speed" will be the keynote topic of Viviane...
Feds Crack Down on Laser Pointers
Feb. 16, 2006
ROMULUS, Mich., Feb. 16, 2006 – After 16 pilots complained that someone shined potentially blinding...
FTTH Council to FCC, Senate: Remove Broadband Barriers
Feb. 15, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2006 -- The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council yesterday urged Congress and the...
DRS IRT Demos Focal Plane Array
Feb. 15, 2006
DALLAS, Feb. 15 -- DRS Infrared Technologies LP (DRS IRT), a unit of DRS Technologies Inc., said it...
Technology Transfer Awards Go to PNNL
Feb. 15, 2006
RICHLAND, Wash., Feb. 15 -- The Federal Laboratory Consortium announced it is honoring Pacific...
New AFM Device Revolutionizes Nanoimaging
Feb. 15, 2006
ATLANTA, Feb. 15, 2006 -- Using a microphone-inspired probe, researchers at the Georgia Institute...
DHS Funds Goodrich THz Spectrometer
Feb. 14, 2006
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 14, 2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Goodrich...
NEC Nanophotonics Unleashes Data
Feb. 14, 2006
TOKYO, Feb. 14, 2006 -- NEC Corp. said it has developed fundamental silicon (Si) nanophotonics...
Edmund Optics Offers Research Discount
Feb. 14, 2006
BARRINGTON, N. J., February 14, 2006 -- Edmund Optics (EO) is offering a 20-percent discount on all...
Lucent Hired to Analyze Europe's Electronic Communications Infrastructure
Feb. 14, 2006
MURRAY HILL, N.J. and BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 14, 2006 -- Lucent Technologies today announced that...
Nanotubes Make Materials Absorb Vibration
Feb. 13, 2006
TROY, N.Y., Feb. 13, 2006 -- A new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)...
JDSU Wins $8M Navy Contract
Feb. 13, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2006 -- JDSU announced that the US Navy selected its communications test...
Jmar Licenses CSU X-Ray Laser
Feb. 13, 2006
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 13, 2006 -- Laser technology developer Jmar Technologies Inc. announced today that...
'Green' Nanotech Initiative Launched
Feb. 10, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2006 -- A new series of meetings, dubbed the GreenNano series, will focus on...
Merger Forms One of the Largest CLECs in US
Feb. 10, 2006
WALTHAM, Mass. and ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 10, 2006 -- CTC Communications and Choice One...
kSaria Automates Fiber Cable Assembly
Feb. 10, 2006
LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 10, 2006 -- As part of a manufacturing technology program initiated by the...
PI Launches New Web Site
Feb. 10, 2006
AUBURN, Mass., Feb. 10, 2006 -- PI, a manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision...
'Green' Nanotech Initiative Launched
Feb. 10, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2006 -- A new series of meetings, dubbed the GreenNano series, will focus on...
China to Double Research Funding
Feb. 10, 2006
BEIJING, Feb. 10, 2006 -- China this week announced a plan to increase its research programs over...
Innovators Honored at DesignCon 2006
Feb. 9, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2006 -- Design engineering innovators were honored by the...
Nanometrics to Acquire Accent Optical
Feb. 9, 2006
MILPITAS, Calif. & BEND, Ore., Feb. 9, 2006 -- Nanometrics Inc., a supplier of advanced...
Lucent to Buy Riverstone's Assets for $170M
Feb. 9, 2006
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Feb. 9, 2006 -- Lucent Technologies announced that it is acquiring substantially...
Coatings May Make Rooms Self-Cleaning
Feb. 8, 2006
SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 8, 2006 -- Cleaning bathrooms by hand may become a thing of the past, now...
Ocean Optics Adds Spectrometer Patents
Feb. 8, 2006
DUNEDIN, Fla., Feb. 8, 2006 -- Ocean Optics was recently issued two US patents involving its...
GA Tech Researchers Create a More Compact, Less Costly Spectrometer
Feb. 8, 2006
ATLANTA, Feb. 8, 2006 -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to...
Integra Telecom Buys Electric Lightwave
Feb. 7, 2006
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 7 -- Integra Telecom Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based provider of local,...
Bush's Budget Would Boost NSF's by 8%
Feb. 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2006 -- President Bush's budget for fiscal year 2007 requests $6.02 billion for...
GE to Present OLED Substrate Findings
Feb. 7, 2006
PHOENIX, Feb. 7, 2006-- A substrate system for flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) being...
Bush's Budget Would Boost NSF's by 8%
Feb. 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2006 -- President Bush's budget for fiscal year 2007 requests $6.02 billion for...
Nanotube-based Sensors Use Light to Detect Contaminants in Living Cells
Feb. 6, 2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 6, 2006 -- Single-walled carbon nanotubes wrapped with DNA can be placed...
Picarro to Develop Pollutant Monitor
Feb. 6, 2006
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2006 -- Picarro Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance lasers and...
Air Force Lab Builds Coating Facility
Feb. 6, 2006
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Feb. 6, 2006 -- Construction on a new mirror-coating facility is...
Lockheed to Lead Air Force Network
Feb. 6, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2006 -- Lockheed Martin was awarded a $2 billion contract to lead the...
Europe Dubbed Fiber-to-the-Home 'Hotspot'
Feb. 6, 2006
OYSTER BAY, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2006 -- Announcements that Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Paris, France plan...
Freescale Creates GaAs MOSFET Device
Feb. 3, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 3, 2006 -- Freescale Semiconductor has developed what it says is the first...
NIST Polynanotubes Could Become World's Smallest Hypodermic Needles
Feb. 3, 2006
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 3, 2006 -- Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Sensor May Detect Alzheimer's Markers
Feb. 2, 2006
DUNEDIN, Fla., Feb. 2, 2006 -- An Ocean Optics UV/VIS spectrometer is part of a nanosensor used by...
Photonics West 2006 Shatters Records
Feb. 2, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2006 -- A record number of attendees -- 16,533 -- and more than 1000...
Microscopy, Spectroscopy Allow Scientists to See Fossils Hidden Inside Rocks in 3-D
Feb. 1, 2006
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 1, 2006 -- UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have...
World's Smallest Silicon Modulator Created
Feb. 1, 2006
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1, 2006 -- An electrical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin has made...