PI Opens UK, France Subsidiaries
Nanopositioning specialist Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, OF Karlsruhe, Germany, has founded a UK sales and support office, PI (Physik Instrumente) Ltd., in Harpenden, England. The company...
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CAF OKs Laser Eye Surgery for Crew
Canada's Air Force (CAF) has approved a policy that permits serving and potential aircrew to undergo certain types of laser refractive surgery (LRS), based on a study by the Aeromedical Policy and Sta...
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Lumenis Realigns Ophthalmic Unit
Medical and aesthetic laser maker Lumenis Ltd. of Yokeam, Israel, said it has realigned its ophthalmic business unit to report to Gideon Sturlesi, who will lead the unit in addition to his duties as c...
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Steve Rothstein Hired at Plasma Etch
Steve Rothstein has been hired as eastern regional US sales manager by Plasma Etch Inc. of Carson City, Nevada. Rothstein has a background in the high-vacuum deposition industry and more than 25 y...
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Former Sen. Daniel Coats Joins NanoInk Board
NanoInk Inc. of Skokie, Ill., a nanometer-scale manufacturer and applications developer for the life science and semiconductor industries, announced the appointment of former Sen. Daniel Coats to ...
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Ambios Technology Expands Facilities
Ambios Technology Inc. announced that it has signed a multiyear agreement that doubles the size of its Santa Cruz, Calif., headquarters. The additional space will be used to substantially increase man...
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Kyle Rhodes, Terrence Woldorf Join Dymax
Kyle Rhodes has been appointed manager of the medical market segment and Terrence Woldorf as chief growth officer/senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Dymax Corp., a Torrington, ...
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Technology Innovators Vie for 'European Inventor of the Year' Awards
The inventor of the stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscope and the creators of a new ophthalmoscope laser scanning technology are among 12 finalists completing for Europe's top innovation pri...
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Paul Newbatt to Lead Business Development at CEMMNT
The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT) in Loughborough, England, has named Paul Newbatt as its business development director. Paul has more than 20 years techni...
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StockerYale Transferring to Nasdaq Capital Market
StockerYale Inc. of Salem, N.H., announced that it intends to transfer the listing of its common stock from the Nasdaq Global Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market, which has a lower cost and lower list...
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CVI Technical Optics Wins Queen’s Award For Enterprise
CVI Technical Optics Ltd. of Onchan, Isle of Man, announced it has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2008 in the international trade category. The company, part of the Albuquerque, N.M.-ba...
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UColorado Opens Lab to Detect Drugs in Drinking Water
The University of Colorado's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering in Boulder announced the opening of the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry (CEMS), a laboratory fo...
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Zecotek Wins Australian Patent for Display System
Zecotek Photonics Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, announced it has received Australian patent number 2006200812 for its real-time 3-D 2-D display system technology. Unlike existing 3-D displays t...
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Better Job Market Offset by Manufacturing Decline
US high-tech jobs have increased for the third year in a row, said the American Electronics Association (AEA), and there is a strong labor market for scientists and engineers, the supply of which is i...
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WITec Breaks Ground for New HQ
Microscope manufacturer WITec GmbH broke ground earlier this month for new headquarters in Ulm, Germany, to include research, production and office facilities. WITec said the new building, located in ...
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IPG Photonics Adds 3 to Sales Force
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., announced today that it has strengthened its capabilities in merchant diode sales, sales to the government, and low- and mid-power fiber laser s...
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USC Explores Engineers' Inner Artists
Engineering students and faculty exercised their skills in art, film and music at the second annual KIUEL Showcase, held recently at the University of Southern California Viterbi School (USC Viterbi) ...
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Sensor Squid Sparks Student Sharing
Call it "tangible interface design," "interactive tactile collaboration," "computer-human interaction" designed to enable "creativty interventions," what have you. By any name, Archie the Sensor S...
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Carl Zeiss SMT to Open NA HQ
Carl Zeiss SMT AG, a maker of scanning and transmission electron beam systems for nanotechnology, life sciences, material analysis and semiconductor applications, said it will mark the official openin...
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Michael Allison to Direct SC, Solar Sales at Edwards
Michael Allison, former worldwide vice president of business operations at KLA-Tencor Corp., was named sales and service director, semiconductor and solar, at Edwards, a UK-based maker of vacuum pumps...
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Gregory J. Quarles Elected SPIE Fellow
Gregory J. Quarles, director of research at optical components maker VLOC Inc. of New Port Richey, Fla., has been elected a SPIE fellow for his achievements in solid-state laser science and engineerin...
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Nano College Joins US-Sweden Energy Group
The Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), University at Albany, will participate in the International Renewable Energy Tec...
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Sharon Delman Hired as Marketing VP at Cutera
Sharon Delman has joined Cutera as vice president of marketing, the company announced. Delman brings nearly 20 years of experience to her new position, having successfully built brands and launched pr...
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Rochester U. Offers Free Physics Program for Girls
Applications are due by April 30 for the Pre-College Experience in Physics (PREP) program, open to 9th- and 10th-grade girls, to be held July 7-30 at the University of Rochester. Designed to encourage...
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Craig Hogan Accepts Fermilab-Chicago Posts
Craig Hogan has been appointed director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and as a professor of astronomy and astrophysics...
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UNC Charlotte's Mullany, Xu Receive NSF Awards
Brigid Mullany and Terry Xu, faculty members of the Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte, have each won $400,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awar...
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Osram Opto SC Opens Hong Kong HQ
Osram Opto Semiconductors said it will be closer to its customers in Asia -- particularly in China, Korea and Japan -- with new headquarters it opened in Hong Kong this week. Osram, a Siemens subsidia...
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Alpha Precision to Distribute for Lambda Research
Lambda Research Corp., a Littleton, Mass., developer of optical design software, announced that Alpha Precision Instrumentation Corp. is now a distributor in Taiwan and China of its TracePro and OSLO ...
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Syngene Site Simplifies Stain Image Analysis
Researchers who use Syngene image analyzers can determine the best imaging conditions for dye applications at the Syngene website. The free service provides information for more than 160 chemiluminesc...
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Winners of Germany's 2008 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize Announced
Researchers working in materials science, quantum optics and analytical chemistry are among six recipients of the 2008 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Germany's top research prize for young scientists. Th...
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Robert Alfano Awarded for Supercontinuum Work
Robert R. Alfano, a professor of science and engineering at the City College of New York and director of its Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, has been named the recipient of the 20...
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Sharon Weiss Receives NSF Award for Waveguide Research
Sharon M. Weiss, PhD, assistant professor of electrical engineering and physics at Vanderbilt University, will receive $400,000 over five years under a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early ...
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GOPS, Filigree Among UNC Contest Winners
GOPS Group LLC, a Saluda, N.C., producer of AlgaMax bio diesel fuel, and Filigree Nanotechnology Inc., a Winston-Salem developer of a manufacturing process using silver nanowires to improve silver zin...
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PerkinElmer Opens R&D Center in Singapore
Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., today opened its new research and development center in Singapore, which will serve as a base for the company's global R&D...
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Boston Scientific, Surgi-Vision to Develop Cardiac Devices
Boston Scientific Corp. and Surgi-Vision Inc. of Baltimore, Md., announced a deal to license and develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-safe technology for implantable cardiac devices. The companies...
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