Beam of Light Picks Up Cells
Oct. 31, 2007
A beam of light has been used for the first time to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells...
Silicon Spin Chip Made
Oct. 30, 2007
The first researchers to demonstrate that an electron's spin can be electrically injected,...
3 Isotopes Created
Oct. 30, 2007
The creation of three magnesium and aluminum isotopes stake new territory on the nuclear landscape...
EL Yarn Makes Garments Glow
Oct. 29, 2007
Thin-film electroluminescent technology has been used to develop high-tech, battery-powered textile...
Pirelli Buys Avanex Shares
Oct. 29, 2007
The Pirelli Group Italy announced today an agreement to acquire the 12.4 percent stake held by...
UK Funds Silicon Photonics
Oct. 29, 2007
The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) awarded a grant valued at 5...
Flir to Acquire Extech
Oct. 26, 2007
Flir Systems Inc. announced this week it will acquire the stock of Extech Instruments Corp., a...
Intel Opens 'Fab 32'
Oct. 26, 2007
Production of a new generation of microprocessors for PCs, laptops, servers and other computing...
Nanoionics Boosts Memory
Oct. 25, 2007
A new, nanotechnology-based “recipe” for making memory has been developed using materials already...
Big Biotech Names at BIO
Oct. 25, 2007
Bio-Europe 2007, to be held Nov. 12-14 in Hamburg, Germany, will present many of the most respected...
Stressed CNTs are Reliable
Oct. 24, 2007
If blocks of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are squeezed over and over again with the same amount of...
Corning: Q3 Profit up 41%
Oct. 24, 2007
Glass and optical fiber maker Corning Inc. today announced better-than-expected results for the...
Chemist Cracks Crystal Case
Oct. 24, 2007
A chemist has cracked a case of mysterious crystal characteristics, concluding a 70-year conundrum....
Fish Don't Need Sunglasses
Oct. 23, 2007
Goldfish have a natural advantage in sensing the proximity of their meals: Individual...
Gel Changes Color on Demand
Oct. 22, 2007
A new structured gel can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including...
HDTV Maker Selling LCoS Unit
Oct. 22, 2007
Syntax-Brillian Corp., a maker of high-definition LCD televisions and digital cameras, announced...
QC Nanoantenna Demo'd
Oct. 22, 2007
The demonstration of a quantum cascade (QC) laser nanoantenna, a device capable of resolving the...
Plug Pulled on FUSE
Oct. 19, 2007
After an eight-year run that gave astronomers a completely new perspective on the universe, NASA...
StockerYale Buys Spectrode
Oct. 19, 2007
StockerYale Inc., a Salem, N.H., maker of structured light lasers, LED modules and specialty...
Helium Demand Ballooning
Oct. 19, 2007
The worldwide shortage of helium is resulting in rising prices and tight supplies for party supply...
Flir Awarded $9M Contract
Oct. 18, 2007
Thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced today that it has...
Wave Map Data Online
Oct. 18, 2007
Data from a massive project to map a distant region of the universe in multiple wavelengths -- from...
Boston Scientific to Cut Jobs
Oct. 18, 2007
Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. announced today it will eliminate about 2300 positions...
Nano Conference Debuts
Oct. 17, 2007
The International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics (ICALEO) will feature its...
Device Counts Single Photons
Oct. 16, 2007
A new transistor uses quantum dots to help it count individual photons (the smallest particles of...
Boeing Tests Humvee Laser
Oct. 16, 2007
The Boeing Co. said this week it has demonstrated that its Avenger-mounted laser system can...
Manatee-Boat Score Tackled
Oct. 16, 2007
A squeaky-voiced cartoon mouse may capture hearts in central Florida, but manatees -- with their...
Light Bent the 'Wrong' Way
Oct. 15, 2007
A new, easy-to-produce material created from semiconductors refracts light negatively, bending the...
IPG Obtains Deutsch Credit
Oct. 15, 2007
IPG Photonics Corp. announced today it has entered into a new 15 million euro ($21 million)...
Danaher Buying Tektronix
Oct. 15, 2007
Danaher Corp. announced today it will expand its Electronic Test business segment by acquiring...
API Closing Wis. Facility
Oct. 15, 2007
Advanced Photonix Inc. (API) announced it will close its Dodgeville, Wis., assembly facility,...
IPG Photonics Settles Lawsuit
Oct. 12, 2007
Fiber laser and amplifier maker IPG Photonics Corp. announced yesterday that it has settled a...
Nanodevice Emits Light
Oct. 12, 2007
Nanotechnologists have discovered some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise...
Ertl Awarded Chemistry Nobel
Oct. 12, 2007
Gerhard Ertl, emeritus professor at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin,...
Thermo Fisher Buys NanoDrop
Oct. 11, 2007
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced this week it has acquired NanoDrop Technologies LLC, a...
Photonics R&D to be Topic
Oct. 11, 2007
Photonics research will be the focus of the Charlotte Research Institute’s 6th Annual...
Terapic Project Awarded
Oct. 11, 2007
Kotura Inc., a Monterey Park, Calif.-based supplier of silicon photonics components, and CyOptics...
GE to Close Lighting Plants
Oct. 11, 2007
GE Consumer & Industrial announced it intends to restructure its lighting business, affecting...
Zygo Nabs $4.4M Contract
Oct. 10, 2007
Zygo Corp., a Middlefield, Conn.-based optical metrology supplier, said its optical systems...
Toshiba FET Tops Ku-band
Oct. 10, 2007
Toshiba Corp. announced this week it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect...
Nanotechnologists Win Nobel
Oct. 9, 2007
Two Europeans were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics today for their discovery of a new...
nLight Acquires Liekki
Oct. 9, 2007
nLight Corp., a Vancouver, Wash.-based maker of high-power semiconductor lasers, announced today it...
Unruly Light Waves Tamed
Oct. 9, 2007
Light waves become unstable and unruly as they are pressed through surfaces only a few nanometers...
Aixtron Buys Nanoinstruments
Oct. 9, 2007
Aixtron AG announced yesterday it will buy University of Cambridge spinoff Nanoinstruments Ltd., a...
Agilent Funds GA Tech Center
Oct. 5, 2007
The Georgia Institute of Technology announced yesterday that has received $13 million from test and...
II-VI Buys 75% of Laser Firm
Oct. 5, 2007
II-VI Inc. announced this week it will expand its laser optics and components product lines and...
Microsystem Incubates Cells
Oct. 3, 2007
By integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner...
Optic Speed Record Set
Oct. 3, 2007
A world record in the measurement of optical high-speed signals was announced at the Europea...
Light Blue Raises $26M
Oct. 2, 2007
Light Blue Optics (LBO), a UK developer of holographic laser projection technology, announced it...
Saint-Gobain Buys ARO
Oct. 2, 2007
Alpine Research Optics (ARO), a Boulder, Colo., supplier of high-performance coated optics, has...
PerkinElmer Acquiring ViaCell
Oct. 2, 2007
Health sciences and photonics technology provider PerkinElmer Inc. announced late yesterday it will...
X-rays Exceed 'Critical Angle'
Oct. 1, 2007
A new method uses refractive lenses to focus x-rays down to extremely small spots, a breakthrough...
Catalysts Stamp Nanopatterns
Oct. 1, 2007
A hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as...
Thin Films Show Their Stripes
Oct. 1, 2007
Using an array of parallel nanowires called "stripes," materials researchers have demonstrated a...
CVI Melles Griot Buys CIOL
Oct. 1, 2007
Photonics products supplier CVI Melles Griot announced today it has acquired Coherent Imaging...