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December 2004

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 30 -- A new astronomical camera is in operation on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii. The wide-field camera (WFCAM), built at the UK Astronomy...

Steward to Cast 1st Mirror for Magellan TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 29 -- The University of Arizona Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the Carnegie Observatories of the Carnegie Institution have signed an agreement to produce the first...

Scientists Find Atomic Clues to Tougher Ceramics

BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 29 -- Advanced ceramics are wonderful materials: They withstand temperatures that would melt steel and resist most corrosive chemicals. If only they weren't so brittle. Poor...

DOE Allocates Supercomputer Resources WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- Three scientific research projects -- to increase understanding of ways to reduce pollution, to gain insight into how stars and solar systems form and to advance knowledge...

ITT Industries Wins $16 M Contract WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 28 -- ITT Industries Inc. has received a contract with a potential value of $16 million to provide submersible AN/PVS-14 monocular night-vision goggles (NVGs) and associated...

Agilent Sues Elan Microelectronics PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 23 -- Agilent Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Elan Microelectronics Corp. for patent infringement in the US District Court for the Northern District of...

Vishay and SI Technologies to Merge MALVERN, Pa., and TUSTIN, Calif., Dec. 23 -- Vishay Intertechnology Inc. and SI Technologies Inc. announced today they have signed a definitive merger agreement for Vishay to acquire all of the...

StockerYale Stops Efforts to Acquire Navitar SALEM, N.H., Dec. 23 -- StockerYale Inc., a provider of photonics-based products, announced today it is discontinuing efforts to acquire Navitar Inc., a Rochester, N.Y.-based manufacturer and...

UK Biotech/Robotics Shows Attract 2000

OLYMPIA, London, Dec. 22 -- About 2000 visitors representing academia, industry and government and international research teams glimpsed the latest life science products and technologies at the third...

API Acquires PDI CAMARILLO, Calif., Dec. 22 -- Advanced Photonix, Inc. (API) announced today it has acquired the outstanding capital stock of Photonic Detectors Inc. (PDI) for $1,075,000 cash and 113,572 shares of...

Photronics Invests More in PKL BROOKFIELD, Conn., Dec. 22 -- Photronics Inc., a manufacturer of photomasks, said it has acquired an additional 5.5 percent interest in PKL Co. Ltd., an independent photomask manufacturer in Korea,...

For Ailing Former Guide Dog, It's a Wonderful Life

ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 22 -- After years of making his contribution to humans, Brando, a nine-year-old Labrador retriever, has found that it's their turn to return the favor. Brando served for many years...

MRI Measures Heart Attack Size BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 21 -- Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in animal studies to measure with 94 percent accuracy the size and amount of heart muscle damaged by a heart attack,...

Colibrys Buys Applied MEMS Unit HOUSTON, Dec. 17 -- Colibrys SA, of Neuchatel, Switzerland, announced today it has completed the acquisition of the Applied MEMS subsidiary of seismic services provider Input/Output Inc. in an...

Scanning Electron Microscopist Honored

CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 17 -- About 120 scientists and engineers from around the world gathered last week at Cambridge University to celebrate a half-century of achievement in scanning electron...

Carbon Nanotubes Yield New Class of Sensors

ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 17 -- Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a tiny, implantable detector that could one day allow diabetics to monitor...

Colibrys Acquires Applied MEMS Business HOUSTON, Dec. 17 -- Colibrys SA, of Neuchatel, Switzerland, announced today it has completed the acquisition of the Applied MEMS subsidiary of seismic services provider Input/Output Inc. in an...

DRS Acquires Night Vision for $42.5 M PARSIPPANY, N.J., Dec. 16 -- DRS Technologies Inc. announced it has acquired certain assets and liabilities of Night Vision Equipment Co. (NVEC), an Allentown, Pa.-based developer of night-vision...

MSI to Buy MWS Sensorik FAIRFIELD, N.J., Dec. 15 -- Measurement Specialties Inc. (MSI), a New Jersey maker of sensors and sensor-based consumer products, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MWS...

Crystal Consortium Receives Grant GLASGOW, Scotland, Dec. 15 -- The Crystal Consortium Ltd. (TCC), a Scotland-based developer of synthetic crystals for electronic and optoelectronic applications, has won a £20,000 award from the...

Lambda to Exit Lithography Business SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 15 -- Coherent Inc. announced today that its Lambda Physik subsidiary will discontinue future product development and investments in the semiconductor lithography market. It...

Toshiba Demonstrates Photonics Advance CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 14 -- Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. in Cambridge has demonstrated a "robust and user-friendly" way to use quantum cryptography to detect unauthorized eavesdropping and to...

Carl Zeiss Acquires Palm Microlaser OBERKOCHEN, Germany, Dec. 14 -- Carl Zeiss AG announced yesterday it has fully acquired the German company Palm Microlaser Technologies AG, a Bernried, Germany-based maker of microdissection and...

Toshiba Demos Photonics Advance CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 14 -- Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. in Cambridge has demonstrated a "robust and user-friendly" way to use quantum cryptography to detect unauthorized eavesdropping and to...

FiberNet to Acquire Con Edison Communications NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- FiberNet Telecom Group Inc., a provider of managed network services, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Con Edison Communications (CEC), a subsidiary of...

Bookham Announces More Cost Cuts SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Bookham Inc., a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, announced it has adopted a plan to reduce its overhead structure by an additional $6 million to $8...

L-3 Buys Sarnoff Video Security Lines PRINCETON, N.J. & ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 9 -- Sarnoff Corp., a Princeton-based innovation services and technology development company, announced yesterday that L-3 Communications has acquired the...

Laser Ablation Goes Primetime FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 9 -- "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," the hit TV show (CBS) about a team of forensic investigators who use both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned police work to...

'Dream Team' Creating Gigapixel Image System

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 9 -- A group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization are gathered at New York University (NYU) this week to begin...

Clean Systems to Build Fiber Optic Plant KIRYAT GAT, Israel and NEW YORK, N.Y., Dec. 9 -- Clean Systems Technology Group Ltd. announced it has received a $37.8 million contract to build a new fiber optic plant in the Asia Pacific. The...

Flir Awarded Defense Contract PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 8 -- Flir Systems Inc. announced today it has been awarded a contract from the US government for an advanced version of its 9-inch stabilized electro-optical surveillance system....

Syntune Funding Round Nets $6.2 STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Syntune AB, a Swedish developer of innovative single-chip tunable lasers, said it has raised SEK 42 million ($6.2 million) in a private equity financing round led by...

RVSI Receives UID, Inspection Orders NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 8 -- Robotic Vision Systems Inc. (RVSI) announced today that BAE Systems has selected its unique-identification (UID) kit for compliance with a new Department of Defense (DoD)...

National Science Board Members Appointed ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 8 -- The president on Nov. 29 appointed eight new members to the National Science Board (NSB), the 24-member policy and oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF)...

Fujitsu, Cisco Form Alliance SAN JOSE, Calif. & TOKYO, Dec. 7 -- Fujitsu Ltd. and Cisco Systems Inc. have announced a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers and enterprises to...

150 Attend Keck Futures Conference IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 6 -- More than 150 scientists, engineers and medical researchers attended the National Academies' second annual Keck Futures Initiative Conference, held last month in Irvine,...

Essex Awarded $4 Million COLUMBIA, Md., Dec. 6 -- Essex Corp. announced it recently received $4 million in awards for its patented volumetric synthetic aperture radar (VSAR) 3-D image processing technology. Delivery on the...

CT Scans Used in 'Mummy Autopsy' ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 6 -- Computed tomography (CT) and x-rays provide a noninvasive peak at mummies, some of which have lain forgotten for centuries, in a 13-part TV series that follows a...

Students Pursue Nanotech Opportunities LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 3 -- Eight students are taking advantage of a unique undergraduate certification program in nanotechnology at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering. The...

SEMI Forecasts Equipment Industry CHIBA, Japan, Dec. 3 -- The market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment is expected to grow 59 percent in 2004 to be the second largest annual level ever recorded, according to the year-end...

ArianeCorp Gets $300 M Investment SINGAPORE, Dec. 2 -- ArianeCorp Ltd. announced that its telecommunications unit in China, Guangzhou Ariane Telecom Technology Co. Ltd. (GAT), will join forces with an international investment group...

L-3 to Acquire Propulsion Systems Unit for $155 M NEW YORK, Dec. 2 -- L-3 Communications announced it has agreed to acquire the Propulsion Systems business unit of General Dynamics for $185 million in cash. Propulsion Systems is expected to add...

Corning Grants PMO Patent Use CORNING, N.Y., Dec. 2 -- Corning Inc. and Hitachi-Maxell Ltd. announced today they have entered into a nonexclusive licensing agreement that will allow Hitachi-Maxell to use Corning’s precision...

PhotoMedex to Acquire ProCyte MONTGOMERYVILLE, Penn., Dec. 2 -- PhotoMedex Inc., a provider of medical laser products and services, will acquire ProCyte Corp., a Redmond, Wash., maker of dermatology procedure products, in a...

Pall Buys Chromatography Business EAST HILLS, N.Y., Dec. 2 -- Pall Corp. announced Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the BioSepra Process Division from Ciphergen Biosystems Inc., of Fremont, Calif. The purchase price was...

Physical Optics Announces 2005 Trade Shows TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 1 -- Physical Optics Corp., a Torrance, Calif.-based manufacturer of holographic light-shaping diffuser films, optical components, holographic light pipes and high-resolution...

Global Photonic Energy Extends Princeton, USC Collaboration EWING, N.J., Dec. 1 -- Global Photonic Energy Corp. (GPEC), a renewable energy technology development company that is working to harness sunlight using small-molecule organic materials to produce...

Semiconductor Group Launches Nanoelectronics Research Initiative SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 1 -- Noting that the laws of physics will eventually limit the implementation of CMOS scaling technology, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced today it has...

PRODUCTS

ColorLoc Color Wheels and Optics

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 29 -- Bookham Inc., a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, has launched its ColorLoc family of color wheels and optics, key components of projection display...

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Dorado 1-W High-Power LED

MENANDS, N.Y., Dec. 28 -- Marktech Optoelectronics' says its newest addition to its Dorado high-power LED family, the Cotco One Watt Dorado Series, features the smallest one-watt footprint in the...

Marktech Optoelectronics Inc.

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X-ray Imaging Devices BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Dec. 22 -- Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced a series of x-ray imaging devices that provide clear images in a variety of applications. Comprised of a substrate with a Csl (cesium...

Hamamatsu Corporation

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Miniature External Cavity Lasers

WILMINGTON, Mass., Dec. 17 -- Ahura Corp., a manufacturer of miniature optical subsystems for homeland security, life sciences and industrial applications, has introduced a line of miniature...

Thermo Scientific

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Sintervac SiC Sintering Furnace NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 10 -- Centorr/Vacuum Industries (CVI) announced it has received orders for three silicon carbide (SiC) sintering furnaces for 2005 delivery from various customers. The designs...

Centorr Vacuum Industries

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Pulsed Fiber Lasers

BOTHELL, Wash., December 10 -- Aculight Corp. has expanded its family of pulsed fiber laser products with the addition of the Model PF1550-36. Operating in the eye-safe region near 1.54-mm, the Model...

Lockheed Martin Laser and Sensor Systems

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Miniature External Cavity Lasers

WILMINGTON, Mass., Dec. 17 -- Ahura Corp., a manufacturer of miniature optical subsystems for homeland security, life sciences and industrial applications, has introduced a line of miniature...

Thermo Scientific

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Handheld Test Instrument Series QUEBEC CITY, December 23 -- Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has expanded its line of handheld test instruments designed for installation and maintenance applications in optical networks. Exfo...

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