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Photonics Spectra - June 2010
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Dual Exposure Speeds Solar Cell Inspection
Worldwide energy demand is rising, and so is the price of that energy as fossil fuel resources are consumed. These trends have led to growing worldwide interest in alternative energy sources such as...
Robotic Automation for Solar Cell Manufacturing
The global photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing community is on the cusp of a resurgence in investment, development and innovation, a revolution that largely will be driven by technology. It is vital to...
Dual-Mirror Adaptive Optics Systems
Researchers worldwide have leveraged advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror technology by using adaptive optics to correct for wavefront aberrations caused by distortion. Now, the...
Fiber Optics off the Coast of Africa
Tuesday night, April 6, 2010: The Ile de Batz slowed to a stop in the waters of Dar es Salaam Bay, just off the Msasani Peninsula in the east African nation of Tanzania. The ship had been traveling...
50 Years of the Laser Industry
The relentless innovation that has always characterized the laser industry is now driven and firmly controlled by the needs of applications. In the technology’s infancy, the main goals were the...
Lasers in the Manufacturing of LEDs
In today’s society, there is a continuous need for devices with lower energy consumption and higher efficiency. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are expected to see a 61 percent rise in worldwide...
The Good Ol’ Days of Laser Entrepreneurship
History is useful only if we can draw useful generalizations from it. And there was a lot to learn from building companies in our industry, especially in the early days. My laser career began in...
Laser Safety Standards Through the Years
Shortly after the demonstration of the first ruby laser by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., in 1960, many other laboratories assembled crude laser devices, and the...
Editorial
Photonics and the environment
As this issue goes to press, a dark black cloud of crude oil is still swirling and spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico, as anywhere from 5000 to 80,000 barrels a day (various government, corporate and scientific sources are not in agreement on the number) escape from a damaged well, weeks after the initial explosion and fire on Transocean Ltd.’s drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, which...
Tech Pulse
STEM technique maps all the atoms in any molecule
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a technique that should, in theory, facilitate direct imaging and chemical identification of each and every atom in a material that has an unspecified three-dimensional structure. This is especially true given the recent introduction of aberration-corrected optics. Until recently, however, neither TEM nor any other method has proved up to the task in...
Quantum dot-based image sensors: A picture of the future?
After operating in complete secrecy for the past three years, InVisage Technologies Inc. has revealed the reason behind its clandestine behavior: the development of a new type of image sensor...
Quantum sensor sets new limits
Researchers at Louisiana State University (LSU) are taking advantage of the quantum properties of light to design the world’s most sensitive optical interferometer. Optical interferometers are...
X-ray, meet optical control …
Researchers have shown that they can control matter directly with intense x-ray beams and can use one beam to control another. The experiments could open the door to new and interesting ways to use...
Superwicking with silicon
Because most computer chips and transistors are made of the semiconductor silicon, the element is key to the microelectronics industry. A serious barrier with silicon, however, is keeping components...
A new twist on moving matter with light
Light can bend rigid structures, at least on a microscopic scale, researchers report. Light-driven twisting of tiny ribbons could someday be used for negative refractive index materials, in...
Igniting a few good ideas with fullerenes
A standard TV trope is the fuse made of a strand of gunpowder slowly burning while heading toward a pile of powder kegs and bundles of dynamite. This fire-starting scenario does, in fact, work,...
light speed
Laser cutting machine industry: Versatility is key
The world market for laser cutting machines is expected to exceed $3.8 billion by the year 2015, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts Inc., based in San Jose, Calif. Released in...
Scholarship Grant
Piezosystem Jena Inc. of Hopedale, Mass., has awarded a $1500 scholarship to Andre Denio of California State University, Northridge, to support his research into developing computer algorithms that...
Sensor Business Acquisition
Pepperl+Fuchs of Mannheim, Germany, has agreed to acquire the binary proximity sensor business of Siemens Industry Automation Div. of Nuremburg, Germany. The agreement is expected to be finalized...
Systems Order
Dionex Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced that it has won a tender order for 42 units of its ICS-1100 system from the Polish Environmental Inspectorate. The new units will be used in...
Support Network
San Diego-based Filmetrics Inc. has announced the opening of film thickness measurement application labs in Tainan, Taiwan and Munich, Germany. Providing headquarters for film thickness support in...
Wafer Manufacturing
Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, has announced that its electronics and biotechnology center is setting up a wafer line at its plant in Penang, Malaysia, to meet the demands of the market and to better...
European Group Formed
At the fourth Photovoltaic Fab Managers Forum, Semi PV Group Europe, a special-interest organization that serves the photovoltaic (PV) supply chain, announced the formation of the European...
Metrology System Implementation
QED Technologies of Rochester, N.Y., an exclusive provider of magnetorheological finishing and subaperture stitching interferometry, has announced implementation of one of its aspheric stitching...
$16 M Order
Following a large traffic safety order announced at the beginning of March, Jenoptik AG of Jena, Germany, has received another major order to deliver lasers for medical use to a US-based client. The...
Distribution Partnership
Rudolph Technologies Inc. of Flanders, N.J., has selected the John P. Kummer Group to distribute its probe card test and analysis products in Europe. The partnership was established in anticipation...
Satellite Launched
CCD imaging sensors manufactured by e2v were launched into space by NASA from Cape Canaveral, Fla. in early March 2010 onboard a Delta IV rocket, which carried the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
West Coast Partnership
Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, R.I., a metrology equipment and software provider, has entered into a strategic distribution partnership with Ellison Technologies Inc., a computer numeric...
Lithography System Selected
Yale University of New Haven, Conn. has selected Vistec Lithography Inc.’s EBPG5000plus electron-beam lithography system for its future nanotechnology research programs. As part of the Yale...
$9 M Funding
APIC Corp. of Los Angeles, an integrated silicon photonics components developer, has announced that the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has released $9 million in funding for Phase IIC development...
Follow-On Order
St. Florian, Austria-based EV Group, a wafer bonding and lithography equipment supplier, has announced that Morocco-based wafer-level camera manufacturer 18314%%Nemotek Technologie has placed a...
Telescope Donation
To educate students about science, optics and astronomy, the OSA Foundation has established a program to donate hundreds of telescopes to students in the Milwaukee area. Through a partnership with...
GreenLight
Frog’s foam fashions fuel
With the inevitable decline of fossil fuels, the race is on to discover renewable energy solutions. As an alternative, researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found a way to convert solar...
Leaves teach technical lessons
Scientists have introduced a design for an artificial inorganic leaf that can capture solar energy and use it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel, an environmentally friendly alternative...
Lighter Side
The season of sun, sand . . . and nanoparticles?
There is no doubt that natural, unfiltered sunlight is a primal force. It charges ions in the atmosphere, providing iridescent fireworks known as the polar lights. It warms the seas and churns the air, providing weather. It feeds plants via photosynthesis, helps create vitamin D in your body, adds highlights to your hair, and can even improve one’s mood and increase one’s willingness...
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