Hubble Software IDs Rare Fish
Dec. 31, 2007
Pattern-recognition software originally developed for the Hubble Space Telescope is helping marine...
Times Square Ball Goes 'Green'
Dec. 31, 2007
In the New Year's spirit of "out with the old, in with the new," the Times Square New Year's Eve...
Rofin-Sinar to Buy Nufern
Dec. 28, 2007
German laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. (RSTI) will acquire Nufern, an East Granby,...
Thermo Acquires La-Pha-Pack
Dec. 28, 2007
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced it has acquired La-Pha-Pack, a Langerwehe, Germany-based...
Avanex Files Complaint Vs. 3S
Dec. 27, 2007
Avanex Corp., a Fremont, Calif., developer of products for fiber optic networks, announced today it...
LCD Alliance Formed
Dec. 27, 2007
Hitachi Ltd., Canon Inc. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. announced Tuesday an agreement...
New Superconductors Sought
Dec. 21, 2007
Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team...
NXP Acquiring GloNav
Dec. 21, 2007
NXP Semiconductors announced today it will acquire GloNav Inc., a US-based fabless semiconductor...
Zygo's Display Orders Top $7M
Dec. 20, 2007
Zygo Corp.'s Metrology Div. announced yesterday orders from the flat panel display industry...
Dynasil to Triple Under Deal
Dec. 20, 2007
Photonics company Dynasil Corp. of America announced today that its size could triple with the...
Applied Precision Sells Div.
Dec. 19, 2007
Applied Precision announced today it is selling its semiconductor division to semiconductor test...
Chip Performs Blood 'Biopsy'
Dec. 19, 2007
A microchip-based device the size of a business card uses 80,000 posts smeared with an antibody...
MEMS for Military Munitions
Dec. 19, 2007
Tiny copper structures that can be used in standard microelectronics fabrication processes could...
Holochip Backers Invest $2.7M
Dec. 18, 2007
Holochip Corp., a maker of adaptive polymer lenses (APLs) with tunable focal lengths, announced...
Astronomy Cuts Dismay RAS
Dec. 18, 2007
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has expressed its "deep disappointment" at the level of cuts...
Emcore to Buy Intel's Telecom
Dec. 18, 2007
Emcore Corp. is acquiring the telecommunications-related portion of Intel's Optical Platform Div....
Bristol-Myers Sheds Unit
Dec. 17, 2007
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announced today it will sell its medical imaging subsidiary to private...
OSA Funds Optics Programs
Dec. 17, 2007
The OSA Foundation is funding an exhibition on optical illusions and three new optics-related...
Zeeko to Make Telescope Tool
Dec. 17, 2007
Zeeko Ltd. was awarded a $5 million contract to develop a component to be used on the world's...
Photons, Phonons Swap Data
Dec. 14, 2007
The discovery of a way to transfer encoded information from a laser beam to sound waves and then...
Boeing Installs Laser Weapon
Dec. 14, 2007
The Boeing Co. installed a high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130H aircraft, part of the...
Laser Beam Sorts Cells
Dec. 13, 2007
Like water from a firehose levitates a beach ball, a new system uses a targeted beam of light to...
A MOT With a Twist
Dec. 13, 2007
An atom chiller has been combined with a molecule trap, creating a device that can generate and...
ST Acquiring Genesis
Dec. 12, 2007
Chip maker STMicroelectronics announced yesterday it will expand its position in the $1.5 billion...
Carigent Round Raises $2M
Dec. 11, 2007
Carigent Therapeutics Inc., which is designing a nanotechnology drug delivery method developed at...
JDSU to Buy Hologram Maker
Dec. 11, 2007
JDSU will acquire American Bank Note Holographics Inc. (ABNH), a Robbinsivlle, N.J., maker of...
Bacteria Forms Nanotubes
Dec. 10, 2007
Chemists and engineers from the US and Korea have found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living...
Light Deactivates Anthrax
Dec. 10, 2007
A new technique targets specific proteins, such as the dangerous anthrax toxin, and renders them...
Laser Changes Film's State
Dec. 7, 2007
A laser has been used to switch a film of material back and forth between reflective and...
Lab Reveals Cyber Attack
Dec. 7, 2007
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed on Thursday that a "sophisticated cyber attack" over...
Si Nanophotonics Advanced
Dec. 6, 2007
Silicon research announced today uses light instead of copper wires to transmit information through...
Corning, Sharp to Share Plant
Dec. 6, 2007
Corning Inc. announced yesterday it will spend $795 million over five years to collocate a glass...
Laser Analyzes Combustion
Dec. 6, 2007
A high-speed system of lasers, mirrors and cameras is being built to analyze combustion inside...
Essilor Buys 5 Optics Labs
Dec. 6, 2007
Prescription lens maker Essilor announced today it has strengthened its laboratory network by...
DFG OKs 10 Research Centers
Dec. 5, 2007
The German Research Foundation (DFG, for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) will establish 10...
Cooler, Cheaper Chips
Dec. 4, 2007
A new process and equipment will reportedly lead to a significant reduction of heat generated by...
Light Sculpts 3-D Particles
Dec. 4, 2007
Microparticles that have been sculpted to three dimensions using ultraviolet light could have many...
Mouse-Eye View of Blood
Dec. 4, 2007
A retinal flow cytometer has been used to peer through the eyes of a mouse and monitor the cells...
Bruker Awards Scholarship
Dec. 3, 2007
Michelene E. Miller, a PhD candidate at Alfred University, was awarded a scholarship by Bruker AXS...
Biolab Draft Deemed Weak
Dec. 3, 2007
A National Institutes of Health draft assessment of the risks associated with a proposed...
FETs Fabbed with Fullerene
Dec. 3, 2007
High-performance field-effect transistors (FETs) have been fabricated at room temperature using...
Sensing Collision Mode
Dec. 3, 2007
Driving along a country road at night, if you see a deer in your path illuminated by your...