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Glassman High Voltage Inc. announced it has published a DC power supply brochure for vacuum process equipment applications, featuring technical information such as magnetron sputtering, ion source and electron-gun requirements. The brochure is available as a PDF download at www.glassmanhv.com; for a print version, write to the company at PO Box 317, 124 West Main St., High Bridge, NJ 08829-0317; e-mail: sales@glassmanhv.com; or call 908-638-3800 (fax: 908-638-3700). . . . Michael D. Griffin is the new head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Laurel, Md. His tenure begins as the lab embarks on several projects, including a "fire and ice" tandem of robotic spacecraft to explore Mercury and Pluto and studies of solar activity and the sun-Earth relationship. Griffin succeeds Stamatios M. (Tom) Krimigis, head of the Space Department since 1991. . . . Evolution Robotics Inc., a Pasadena, Calif., robotics technology company, has appointed Hans-Gunther Brosius, a long-time corporate sales executive, as vice president and general manager of its European, Middle East and Africa business. Brosius was formerly senior regional director and general manager at Symantec.