Ramtron Buys Goal Semiconductor
Aug. 30, 2005
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 30 -- Ramtron International Corp., a developer and supplier of...
Advanced Photonix Wins Contract
Aug. 30, 2005
CAMARILLO, Calif., Aug. 30 -- Advanced Photonix Inc., a manufacturer of optoelectronic devices for...
Keithley Wins R&D 100 Award
Aug. 30, 2005
CLEVELAND, Aug. 30 -- Keithley Instruments Inc., a manufacturer of electrical test instruments and...
ADC Completes Acquisition of FONS
Aug. 30, 2005
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 30 -- ADC, a provider of connections for wireline, wireless, cable, broadcast and...
Intelsat, PanAmSat to Merge
Aug. 29, 2005
PEMBROKE, Bermuda and WILTON, Conn., Aug. 29 -- Global communications provider Intelsat Ltd. and...
ISSYS, NanoGetters Awarded Patent
Aug. 26, 2005
YPSILANTI, Mich., Aug. 26 -- Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. (ISSYS) and its subsidiary,...
Telescopes on NASA's Swift Satellite Find Newborn Black Holes
Aug. 26, 2005
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 26 -- Baby black holes apparently come into the world kicking and...
Microfabrica Announces MEMS Design Competition
Aug. 26, 2005
BURBANK, Calif. Aug. 25 -- Microfabrica, a microdevice manufacturer, and Mosis, an integrated...
Army Awards Additional $1.3M Contract for Combat Sensor Technology
Aug. 25, 2005
RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Aug. 25 -- The US Army's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)...
Bruker AXS to Buy X-Ray Software Firm
Aug. 25, 2005
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Aug. 25 -- Bruker AXS GmbH announced it has agreed to pay about 7 million euros...
Kollmorgen Awarded Sights Contract
Aug. 25, 2005
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Aug. 25 -- Kollmorgen Electro-Optical Corp., based in Northampton, Mass., was...
Princeton Lightwave Gets More Funding for Solid-State Lasers
Aug. 25, 2005
CRANBURY, N.J., Aug. 25 -- Princeton Lightwave Inc. (PLI), a producer of near infrared, high-power...
SunPower Announces Solar Cell Discovery
Aug. 24, 2005
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 24 -- Silicon solar cell and panel manufacturer SunPower Corp., a Silicon...
SunPower Announces Discovery
Aug. 24, 2005
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 24 -- Silicon solar cell and panel manufacturer SunPower Corp., a Silicon...
NASA to Talk on Thermography Use in Shuttle at InfraMation 2005
Aug. 24, 2005
BOSTON, Aug. 24 -– InfraMation 2005 organizer Flir Systems Inc., a manufacturer of infrared imaging...
DARPA Renews Symmetricom Atomic Clock Program Funds
Aug. 23, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 23 -- Symmetricom Inc., a maker of timing, frequency and synchronization...
Freescale Acquires Seaway Networks
Aug. 23, 2005
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 23 -- Freescale Semiconductor Inc. has acquired the assets of Seaway Networks...
Teem Photonics Buys Product Line, Grenoble Facility From JDS Uniphase
Aug. 22, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., and GRENOBLE, France, Aug. 22 -- Teem Photonics S.A. of Grenoble, France, a...
Edmund Optics Creates VIP Team to Provide Vision Solutions
Aug. 22, 2005
BARRINGTON, N.J., Aug. 22 -- Edmund Optics has teamed with Epic Vision Systems, Braas Co., Minarik...
Lasers the Focus of Welding Event
Aug. 19, 2005
DEARBORN, Mich. Aug. 19 -- Many new laser application-related activities are planned for the first...
Tessera, NDSU Partner for Chip Manufacturing, Research
Aug. 19, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19 -- Tessera Technologies Inc., a provider of miniaturization technologies...
Sticking Power of Gecko Feet Could Lead to Scientific Advances
Aug. 19, 2005
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 19 — The interest of University of Akron (UA) polymer researchers in the powerful...
ColorChip Acquires Lambda Crossing Optics Plant
Aug. 19, 2005
OR AKIVA, Israel, Aug. 18 -- ColorChip, an Israel-based manufacturer of glass-based planer...
Tessera and NDSU Partner for Chip Manufacturing, Research
Aug. 19, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19 -- Tessera Technologies Inc., a provider of miniaturization technologies...
CMP Media Acquires Light Reading
Aug. 19, 2005
MANHASSET, N.Y., Aug. 19 -- CMP Media, a high-tech business-to-business multimedia company, has...
NSF Awards $150M to TeraGrid
Aug. 18, 2005
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 18 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $150 million...
Jmar Making Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Aug. 17, 2005
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 17 -- Jmar Technologies Inc., a developer of laser-based equipment for imaging,...
Picolight Round Nets $14.5M
Aug. 17, 2005
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 17 --Picolight Inc., a Colorado-based maker of optical components and...
Photonics Gets Billing in New Law
Aug. 17, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- The Optical Society of America (OSA) said the language in a bill signed by...
NSF, SIA Join Forces for Nanoelectronic Research Exploration
Aug. 17, 2005
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Nanoelectronics Research...
Ocean Optics Appoints European Distributors
Aug. 16, 2005
DUNEDIN, Fla., Aug. 16 -- Ocean Optics, a Dunedin, Fla., maker of optical sensing systems for...
APL Mineral Mapper Heads to Mars
Aug. 16, 2005
BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 16 -- With the recent launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft,...
e2v Sensors on Board Orbiter
Aug. 16, 2005
CHELMSFORD, England, Aug. 16 -- Sensors from e2v technologies will capture images of unprecedented...
Agilent to Sell Chip Unit and Lumileds
Aug. 15, 2005
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 15 -- Agilent Technologies Inc., a maker of electronic test and measurement...
Engineers Chart Semiconductors at Atomic Level
Aug. 15, 2005
MADISON, Wisc., Aug. 15 -- Spanning fewer than 1000 atoms, the electronic devices on semiconductor...
National Science Foundation Funds Three Chemical Bonding Centers
Aug. 12, 2005
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 12 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it will fund a new...
Essex Launches Products Group
Aug. 12, 2005
COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 12 -- Essex Corp. announced the creation of its Commercial Products Group...
Essex Launches Commercial Products Group
Aug. 12, 2005
COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 12 -- Essex Corp. announced the creation of its Commercial Products Group...
RPI to Develop 3-D Patient Models
Aug. 11, 2005
TROY, N.Y., Aug. 11 -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is leading a team of researchers...
OmniVision CameraChips Give Mars Spacecraft Sight
Aug. 11, 2005
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 11 -- OmniVision Technologies Inc., a supplier of CMOS image sensors,...
Thermo Electron Acquires Ionalytics
Aug. 11, 2005
WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 11 -- Thermo Electron Corp. announced today that it has purchased Ionalytics...
Direct Global Forms Subsidiary
Aug. 10, 2005
NISKAYUNA, N.Y., Aug. 10 -- Direct Global Power, a renewable energy company, has formed a...
Tandem Ions May Create Better Atomic Clocks
Aug. 10, 2005
Boulder, Colo., Aug. 10 -- Physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards...
Amedia, Cambridge Pursue Business in China
Aug. 9, 2005
EATONTOWN, N.J., Aug. 9 -- Amedia Networks Inc., a provider of switched Ethernet solutions for the...
Philippines Boosts Fiber Optic R&D
Aug. 9, 2005
MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 9 -- The National Institute of Physics (NIP) of the University of the...
Laser May Lead to New Applications in Medicine, Fiber Optics, Laser Machining
Aug. 8, 2005
TIANJIN, China, Aug. 8 -- A research team in China has demonstrated a new way to produce continuous...
Citynet Deploys Infinera Digital Optical Networking Platform
Aug. 8, 2005
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 8 -- Infinera Corp. announced that Bridgeport, W.Va.,-based Citynet, a...
New Laser May Lead to New Applications in Medicine, Fiber Optics, Laser Machining
Aug. 8, 2005
TIANJIN, China, Aug. 8 -- A research team in China has demonstrated a new way to produce continuous...
Companies Aid Space Shuttle Safety
Aug. 5, 2005
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 -- As the space shuttle Discovery prepares to return to Earth from the first flight...
SPIE Meeting Highlights Nanotech
Aug. 4, 2005
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 4 -- Held July 31-August 4 in conjunction with SPIE's 50th anniversary, Optics and...
Physicists Entangle Photon, Atom in Cloud
Aug. 4, 2005
ATLANTA, Aug. 4 -- Eavesdroppers will have a hard time tapping into a quantum communications...
Vishay to Acquire CyOptics Israel
Aug. 3, 2005
MALVERN, Pa., Aug. 3 -- Vishay Intertechnology Inc., a manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and...
Ocean Optics Expands Its Services
Aug. 3, 2005
Dunedin, Fla., Aug. 3 -– Ocean Optics has expanded its optical-sensor coating services to provide...
Alfalight Receives $5.9M in Grants
Aug. 3, 2005
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 3 –- Alfalight, Inc., a manufacturer of high-power diode lasers for industrial,...
Polatis and Continuum Photonics to Merge
Aug. 2, 2005
BILLERICA, Mass., and Cambridge, UK, Aug. 2 -- Continuum Photonics Inc. and Polatis Ltd., makers of...
RPI to Host LED Institute
Aug. 2, 2005
TROY, N.Y., Aug. 2 -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) will hold a...
Polatis, Continuum Photonics Merging
Aug. 2, 2005
BILLERICA, Mass. and Cambridge, UK, Aug. 2 -- Continuum Photonics Inc. and Polatis Ltd., makers of...
Janos Opens Keene Plant
Aug. 1, 2005
KEENE, N.H., Aug. 2 -- Precision optics maker Janos Technology dedicated its new 40,000-square-foot...