Emcore Sells Joint Venture Interest to GE for $100M
Aug. 31, 2006
Emcore Corp. today announced that it has sold its 49 percent interest in GELcore LLC to the...
Omron to Buy NHK's Optical Components Group
Aug. 31, 2006
Omron Corp., a Kyoto-based provider of automation, sensing and control technologies, announced...
Polymer-Coating Process Uses Pulsed Laser Deposition
Aug. 31, 2006
A new method of coating polymers that uses a pulsed laser deposition technique has a number of...
Carbon Fiber Shows Promise in MEMS Video Displays
Aug. 30, 2006
Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of...
Video Cameras Learn from Insect Eyes
Aug. 30, 2006
The bane of all wedding videos -- the bride in front of a window whose face is so shadowed that her...
Waters Corp. Acquires Thermometric AB
Aug. 30, 2006
Waters Corp. announced the acquisition of privately held Thermometric AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a...
EraPilot Project: European Research Lacks Coordination
Aug. 30, 2006
Because of a lack of coordination among European research institutions, industry and government,...
'Nanocantilever' Surprises Crucial for Sensor Design
Aug. 29, 2006
A discovery about the behavior of tiny structures called nanocantilevers could be crucial in...
Optikos to Make Optical System for ITT
Aug. 29, 2006
Optikos Corp. announced it was awarded a contract from ITT Corp. for the design and production of...
RPI Closing 'Green Gap' in LEDs
Aug. 28, 2006
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has received $1.8 million in federal...
nLight Acquires Flextronics Photonics
Aug. 28, 2006
nLight, a Vancouver manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, announced on Aug. 21 it has...
Physicists Get a Grip on a Single Electron's Spin
Aug. 28, 2006
For the first time, researchers said they have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single...
Gecko Inspires High-Friction Microfibers
Aug. 25, 2006
Inspired by the remarkable hairs that allow geckos to hang single-toed from sheer walls and scamper...
Polymers Tested for Flexible Space Electronics
Aug. 25, 2006
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are evaluating a material called liquid crystal...
IGRS Device Used to Control Metastatic Cancer
Aug. 25, 2006
Doctors at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center in Richmond are among the...
Astronomers 'See' the Invisible
Aug. 24, 2006
Dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe, has been seen in isolation...
Thermo, Fisher to Divest $17M Product Line
Aug. 24, 2006
Thermo Electron Corp. and Fisher Scientific International Inc. announced Wednesday they have...
ALS Scientific Director Dies
Aug. 23, 2006
Neville Smith, scientific director for the Advanced Light Source of the Lawrence Berkeley National...
Luxtera Develops Single-Chip Dual XFP Transceiver
Aug. 23, 2006
Carlsbad-based Luxtera Inc. announced this week it has created its first single-chip integrated...
LIA Calls for Abstracts, Instructors
Aug. 23, 2006
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) has announced a call for abstracts -- and instructors -- for...
USS Hawaii to Stay at Pearl Harbor
Aug. 23, 2006
Navy Secretary Donald Winter has confirmed that the USS Hawaii, one of the Navy's new $2.6-billion...
Resolution of Fluorescing Microscope Reaches 15nm
Aug. 22, 2006
Scientists have used a new trick involving fluorescent dyes to surpass their own STED (stimulated...
Minor Planet Named for UCSD Science Dean
Aug. 22, 2006
Mark Thiemens has spent an entire career studying and analyzing meteorites, chunks of space rock...
Research Lights Up Biochip Potential
Aug. 22, 2006
New research from an optics expert is shining light on some of the challenges facing lab-on-a-chip...
NY Boosts Cornell Accelerator Funding
Aug. 22, 2006
New York Gov. George Pataki visited Cornell University Saturday to announce $12 million in state...
UK Team Doubles Transistor Speed
Aug. 21, 2006
Engineers in the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science have...
Forum to Focus on System Design, Process Tech Gap
Aug. 21, 2006
IMEC, a Belgium-based independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center, has announced...
'Revolutionary' Nanotube Growth Method Devised
Aug. 21, 2006
A new method of growing carbon nanotubes is predicted to revolutionize the implementation of...
2006 DEMOGala Call for Nominations
Aug. 21, 2006
The Colorado Software & Internet Association (CSIA) has announced a call for nominations to the...
Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity
Aug. 18, 2006
Powerful magnetic fields change the physical nature of superconductivity, a University of Arizona...
New Transistor Chip Bounces Electrons Like Billiards
Aug. 18, 2006
Computer designers have come up with a radical new design for transistors that bounces individual...
'Hot Big Bang' Team Takes Top Cosmology Prize
Aug. 17, 2006
The 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to John Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer...
New Window into Nanoscale Materials Deformation
Aug. 17, 2006
Materials on the nanoscale don't always have the same properties they would in bulk; for one thing,...
Optical Cable Rejects Superior Essex Buyout Bid
Aug. 17, 2006
Fiber-optic cable maker Optical Cable Corp. has rejected a bid worth $36 million in cash from wire...
Ultratech Acquires Oraxion Assets
Aug. 17, 2006
Ultratech Inc., a San Jose supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture...
ECOC Receives Record Submissions
Aug. 17, 2006
"From Devices to Network Applications" is the theme of submissions to the European Conference and...
Cell-by-Cell Treatments Based on Optical Tweezing
Aug. 16, 2006
New, noninvasive surgical techniques using ultrasound and laser technology to deliver cell-by-cell...
Jmar Awarded $3.1M to Merge X-Ray Masks, Nanolithography
Aug. 16, 2006
Jmar Technologies Inc. has received a $3.1 million award from the Naval Air Systems Command...
Berkeley Lab Names New Advanced Light Source Director
Aug. 16, 2006
Roger Falcone, a physicist whose specialty is the use of ultrafast pulses of x-ray and laser light...
FRET Technique Developed to Observe DNA-Repairing Protein
Aug. 15, 2006
Researchers have observed the life cycle of RecA, a protein that plays a major role in repairing...
Tessera Pens Chip Agreements
Aug. 15, 2006
Tessera Technologies Inc., a San Jose, Calif., provider of miniaturization technologies, and Micron...
New Telescope Findings Shake Up Galaxy Formation Theories
Aug. 15, 2006
A heavy form of hydrogen created just moments after the Big Bang has been found to exist in larger...
Bio-Rad Buys Ciphergen's Proteomics Instrument Biz
Aug. 15, 2006
Molecular diagnostic products maker Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. and Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc....
IPG Photonics Files for IPO
Aug. 14, 2006
IPG Photonics Corp. announced Friday it has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Paetec, US Lec to Merge in $1.3B Deal
Aug. 14, 2006
Telecommunications company US Lec Corp. and privately held communications solutions provider Paetec...
Optikos Gets $3.4M for Optical Focus Verification System
Aug. 14, 2006
Optikos Corp., a maker of optical image quality metrology equipment, announced that it has been...
First ‘Molecular Movie’ of Light Made
Aug. 14, 2006
What happens on a microscopic level when light travels through a medium has been captured in the...
Lowell Observatory, UArizona to Complete DCT Mirror
Aug. 11, 2006
Lowell Observatory and the University of Arizona have finalized a $3 million, three-year contract...
'Mirror Days' Forum for Optics Developers, Agency Reps
Aug. 11, 2006
A forum for government-sponsored contract work in mirror and other optics-related technology will...
Unemployed Scientists Create Ultrapowerful Microscope
Aug. 11, 2006
Two out-of-work scientists equipped with $50,000 in personal funds and a living room for a lab have...
Optics in Energy, Alzheimer's, Physics Apps OSA 90thTopics
Aug. 11, 2006
Optics solutions to the energy problem and Alzheimer's disease and the implication of optical...
Redlake Launches New Web Site
Aug. 10, 2006
Redlake, a designer of high-speed motion analysis and industrial inspection cameras, announces the...
Flir Lands Laser System Contract
Aug. 10, 2006
Flir Systems Inc. of Billerica, Mass., won a $34.8-million targeting system contract with the US...
Metal Fatigue Revealed by New X-Ray Microbeam
Aug. 10, 2006
Intense x-ray microbeams -- 100 times thinner than a human hair -- probing a piece of distressed...
Controls Found to Gold Nanocatalysis
Aug. 9, 2006
A recent discovery that the catalytic activity of gold nanoclusters can be tuned could eventually...
Kollmorgen to Make S-80 Sub Equipment
Aug. 9, 2006
The Spanish Navy, through Navantia, Spain's leading state-owned shipbuilding firm, has selected...
Promising Polymers to be Tested as Space Mirrors
Aug. 9, 2006
For the past three years, a research team has been investigating the performance of various...
Space Pioneer, Physicist James Van Allen Dies at 91
Aug. 9, 2006
Physicist James A. Van Allen, a US space pioneer who discovered the bands of intense radiation...
Laser Imaging Sensor Assists Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Hunt
Aug. 8, 2006
Using a laser imaging sensor capable of providing a detailed measurement of the structure of dense...
Raytheon Gets $8M to Develop Radar for DARPA's ISIS
Aug. 8, 2006
Raytheon Co. has been awarded an $8 million contract to construct a radar antenna the length of a...
XRF Imaging Reveals Archimedes Text
Aug. 7, 2006
The last unreadable pages of the works of ancient mathematician Archimedes are being deciphered...
Steel Tubing Used to Grow Carbon Nanotubes
Aug. 7, 2006
In less than 20 minutes, researchers can now seed, heat and grow carbon nanotubes in 10-foot-long,...
Boston Instruments Acquires Pro2Kem
Aug. 7, 2006
Boston Instruments LLC announced that it has acquired Pro2Kem Inc. Terms of the deal were not...
Superconductor Probe Results in Shock
Aug. 4, 2006
High-temperature superconductors, which conduct electricity without
resistance at relatively high...
AMCC Acquires Quake for $69M
Aug. 4, 2006
Network technology provider Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC)
announced yesterday that it will...
Man-Made Microlenses May Lead to New Sensing Methods
Aug. 3, 2006
Man-made miniature lenses have been created that can alter their shape and light-focusing...
Illinois AG Sues Corning Over Contaminated Site
Aug. 3, 2006
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit against Corning Inc. over soil and...
Lockheed Awarded $7.8M Multisensor Contract
Aug. 3, 2006
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has received a $7.8 million contract
from the Air Force...
Photonic ‘Firewall on a Chip’ Gets EU Funding
Aug. 2, 2006
European Union funding of 2 million euros ($2.5 million) has been announced for a new three-year...
Growing Nanotubes on Silicon a Base for Nanoelectronics
Aug. 2, 2006
Engineers have developed a technique to grow individual carbon
nanotubes vertically on top of a...
UChicago Inks $2.5B Deal to Retain Argonne Control
Aug. 2, 2006
The University of Chicago, through its solely owned independent entity UChicago Argonne LLC, will...
Agilent to Acquire Xpedion
Aug. 1, 2006
Palo Alto-based measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. announced
it will acquire privately...
Syntec, Subsidiary Merge to Form Syntec Optics
Aug. 1, 2006
Syntec Technologies, the largest independent manufacturer of custom
polymer optics in North...
Kodak Loses $282M, Will Cut 2000 More Jobs
Aug. 1, 2006
In the wake of a wider second-quarter loss of $282 million -- its
seventh quarterly loss in a row...
New Imaging Method Uses Helium Atoms
Aug. 1, 2006
A newly devised nozzle fitted with a pinhole-sized capillary has allowed researchers to distribute...