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 July 2007


RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
New Zealand Invests in Tech New Zealand is investing NZ$628 million (about $498 million) in new research programs in an effort to position the country at the forefront of nanotechnology development and the production of new supermaterials, a government funding agency announced yesterday. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) said the projects will also help the country develop its economy, manage...
NEWS & FEATURES
DoD Awards $1.6M for Biochip The Department of Defense has awarded $1.6 million to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable biochip that could relay vital health information if a soldier is wounded in battle or a civilian is hurt in an accident. Clemson University's Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) is developing an...
Sharp Plans New LCD Plant Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will build a new 380 billion yen ($3.2 billion) LCD panel and solar cell plant in Sakai City, Osaka. Corning Inc. also has plans to construct facilities at the center,...
Printer Particles Pose Risk Workers could face a health threat -- in some cases, on par to that of cigarette smoking -- from office laser printers that emit large amounts of tiny particles into the air. Potential effects range...
FDA Nanotech Role Outlined The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should consider developing guidance and taking other steps to address the benefits and risks of drugs and medical devices using nanotechnology, according to...
Atoms Swap ‘Spins’ In a quantum square dance, thousands of atoms trapped by laser beams have been induced to swap “spins” with partners simultaneously. The repeated exchanges, lasting a total of just 10...
Molecular Electronics Doped Recent experiments have shown that the use of doping -- adding small amounts of impurities to the silicon to improve the flow of electricity through a semiconductor -- in molecular electronics could...
Northrop Lands LLDR Work Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $91 million contract from the US Army to provide more than 300 of its lightweight laser designator rangefinder (LLDR) systems, which can recognize targets, find...
Jmar Demos DP-LIBS Laser Jmar Technologies Inc. demonstrated a portable, double-pulse (DP) laser technology intended for real-time spectrochemical hazard analysis for the US Army on Thursday. The demonstration, under an...
IPG Secures $20M Credit Line IPG Photonics Corp., an Oxford-based maker of fiber lasers and amplifiers, announced Thursday it has entered into a new $20 million unsecured revolving credit facility with Bank of America NA....
LightPath Raises $3.2M LightPath Technologies Inc., a developer of optics for laser-based applications, announced it has raised gross proceeds of approximately $3.2 million through the sale of 800,000 shares of common...
ST, IBM Pool Chip Efforts Semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics (ST) and IBM said they will collaborate to develop next-generation process technology -- the "recipe" used in semiconductor development and manufacturing....
Molex Buys Polymicro Tech Electronic components company Molex Inc. announced it has acquired Phoenix, Ariz.-based Polymicro Technologies LLC. Terms were not disclosed. Polymicro makes silica capillary tubing and specialty...
Park Microbe Harvests Light For only the third time in the past 100 years, a novel bacterium has been found that transforms sunlight into chemical energy in the colorful microbial mats around the hot springs of Yellowstone...
Intel Unveils 40 Gb/s Chip A laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 Gb/s -- a significant increase in speed -- was unveiled Tuesday by Intel researchers. A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) could provide a...
Light Bursts Produce Firsts Generating ultrashort bursts of the strongest terahertz light to date has allowed the first observations of an optical phenomenon that could prove useful in a number of new light source...
Feds Arrest Ex-SamSung Exec The former director of a Samsung Corp. business unit was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud in connection with his embezzlement of approximately $1.5 million from the...
API Acquires NanoOpto API Nanotronics Corp., a Toronto-based supplier of electronic components to the defense and communications industries, has acquired NanoOpto Corp., a maker of subwavelength optical elements (SOEs) --...
Fibers Boost Solar Cells A North Carolina startup plans to develop solar cells based on a novel architecture that uses nanotechnology and optical fibers to dramatically boost their efficiency. The new solar cell...
Truck-Mounted Lasers Ordered The Boeing Co. announced it was awarded a US Army contract valued at approximately $7 million to begin developing a truck-mounted laser weapon system that destroys rockets, artillery shells and...
MA Biotech Funds Proposed Gov. Deval Patrick has introduced a bill proposing a major investment in and expansion of the life sciences industry in Massachusetts. “We want Massachusetts to provide the global platform for...
Strain Forms Striped Nanorods Strain engineering, when applied to certain particles in a solution, spontaneously creates superlatticed or "striped" nanorods containing evenly spaced quantum dots, a research team has found. The...
Pact Zooms in on Lenses The University of Central Florida (UCF) has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and...
Tool Measures Speeding Nuclei An international team studying particles traveling at one-third the speed of light used a new gamma-ray spectroscopy technique that allowed them to measure the lifetimes of exotic, unstable isotopes...
ABL Target Tracked A key airborne laser (ABL) flight test has demonstrated the weapon system's ability to actively track an airborne target, compensate for atmospheric turbulence and fire a surrogate for its...
Corning Expanding China Plant Due to increasing demand in China for broadband optical communications, Corning Inc. is expanding its optical fiber manufacturing facility in Shanghai, the company announced yesterday. Financial...
New Zealand Invests in Tech New Zealand is investing NZ$628 million (about $498 million) in new research programs in an effort to position the country at the forefront of nanotechnology development and the production of new...
NY NanoCenter Awarded $4M A state grant of $4 million to the Marcy NanoCenter will initiate engineering work on infrastructure improvements at the Rome, N.Y., site of its new facility. The announcement coincided with Semicon...
2006 Science, Tech Laureates Announced The 13 recipients of the nation’s highest science and technology honors for 2006 include a pioneer in the development of fiber optics technology, a groundbreaking atomic physicist, a...
Polariton Propagation Probed An experiment modeled on the classic “Young’s double-slit experiment" has powerfully reinforced the understanding that surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagate and diffract just like any other...
Alcon Acquiring WaveLight Eye-care company Alcon Inc. announced yesterday that it intends to acquire Germany-based medical technology company WaveLight AG through a "friendly takeover" that will merge the two companies....
Solar Needs Brain Power The solar industry is ripe for the support of the equipment and materials supply chain to drive down the cost of photovoltaic (PV) technology, said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industry...
BOC Edwards Now Edwards BOC Edwards announced today at Semicon West that it will become Edwards, effective immediately. The company said the announcement is a result of its change of ownership from the Linde Group. Edwards...
Light Pipes Detect Vapors A portable laboratory the size of a microchip uses light to detect gases. Brigham Young University (BYU) and University of California-Santa Cruz (UC-Santa Cruz) researchers have achieved the...
Magnets Change Crystals' Tint Nanotechnologists can change the color of tiny particles of iron oxide suspended in water by applying an external magnetic field to the solution. The discovery could lead to proved electronic...
Root Canals Irradiated High-tech dental lasers used mainly to prepare cavities for restoration can now help eliminate bacteria in root canals. Researchers in Austria credit the development of miniaturized, flexible...
Reliance Buys Yipes for $300M Reliance Communications Ltd., India's second largest telecommunications company, said today it is acquiring San Francisco-based Yipes Holdings Inc., a provider of managed Ethernet services, for $300...
Canon Building $451M CMOS Plant Canon Inc. will double the number of CMOS image sensors it makes by investing $451 million in a factory in Kawasaki, Japan, the Reuters news agency reported yesterday. CMOS sensors are used in...
Semicon Offers Latest in Micro- and Nanoelectronics From the latest on solar and renewable energy to the growing importance of semiconductor test, Semicon West 2007 will offer the latest news and information -- as well as the newest products and...
1st Light is Big Step for UF The opening of the world’s largest telescope will usher the University of Florida (UF) into the top ranks of the “big observers,” said one astronomy professor.  A “first light” opening ceremony of...
’Omni Consumer’ Emerges Recent product contaminations and recalls, along with confusion over marketing claims, have eroded shoppers’ trust in consumer product manufacturers, IBM said this week, citing results from a survey....
SUNY Research Union OK'd The National Labor Relations Board has granted more than 2000 employees of the State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation the right to collectively bargain, reversing a previous...
Device Reshapes Lightwaves Manipulating lightwaves, or electromagnetic radiation, has led to many technologies, from cameras to lasers to medical imaging machines that can see inside the human body. Now scientists at the...
Army, Navy Order iRobots The maker of Roomba home vacuuming robots and Scooba mop-replacement robots said today it has received two orders for bomb-busting robots worth a total $17.5 million from the US military. iRobot...
SD Mine Picked for Deep Lab The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, S.D., to be developed as a proposed deep underground science and engineering...
'Crowd Behavior' Seen in Semiconductor Electronics Ultrafast lasers have revealed a subtle, previously unseen type of "collective electronic behavior" among semiconductors, research that may help improve the design of optoelectronic devices. The...
Eppendorf Acquiring NBS Scientific equipment maker New Brunswick Scientific (NBS) Co. Inc. and biotechnology company Eppendorf Group today announced Eppendorf will acquire NBS in a transaction valued at approximately $110...
Adept Opens NE Center Adept Technology, a Livermore, Calif.-based maker of production automation products, announced it has opened a new robotics automation company, CT Robotics LLC, at 800 Main St. South, in Southbury,...
Nanomedical Advances Sought A new nine-year collaboration between scientists in the US and South Korea will combine new imaging, biosensing and nanomedical techniques in an effort to advance medical diagnosis and treatment to...
Adaptive Optics on a Budget A simple optical clamp that uses a single mirror functions as a sort of "poor man's" adaptive optics device. Adaptive optics, a system known for its computer control of subdivided, individually...
What if Aliens Are Weird? Would we know an alien if we ran into one? The search for extraterrestrial life elsewhere should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- life with an...
AMO Bids on Bausch & Lomb Contact lens and lens product maker Bausch & Lomb announced Thursday it has received an acquisition proposal from Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), a Santa Ana, Calif.-based maker of surgical...
Italians Build Atomic Laser Scientists have reported a way to achieve the so-called atomic laser, a breakthrough predicted by Albert Einstein in 1925, the Italian news agency ANSA reported today. A Florence University...
Refilling the Physicist Pool At the mention of the word "outsourcing," most people probably think of manufacturing, not theoretical physics. But the scientists who develop theoretical predictions for high-energy particle physics...
ESI to Pay $36M for New Wave Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) Inc., a Portland-based maker of production equipment used by microelectronics manufacturers, announced today it has agreed to acquire New Wave Research Inc. of...
’Pilot’ Laser Study Launched The US Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration have launched a study of reactions of pilots exposed to lasers, United Press International (UPI) reported today. The article city "an uneasy...
Lighten Soldiers' Loads for $1M The Department of Defense is looking for a few good ideas to reduce the weight of batteries in soldier's battlefield equipment. The department is sponsoring a public competition to develop a...
GD Pitches Ground Laser General Dynamics (GD) and the US Department of Defense may fast-track development of a ground-based, high-powered laser meant to protect aircraft from shoulder-fired, heat-seeking surface-to-air...
Plastic Nanofibers Conduct Electricity, Repel Water Newly developed tiny plastic fibers could be the key to some diverse technologies in the future -- including self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics and biomedical tools that manipulate...
Sumitomo Acquires Primaxx Japan-based Sumitomo Precision Products Co. Ltd. announced last week it has acquired Primaxx Inc., a venture-funded manufacturer of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) etch-release equipment. Terms...
ACQUISITIONS
Alcon Acquiring WaveLight Eye-care company Alcon Inc. announced yesterday that it intends to acquire Germany-based medical technology company WaveLight AG through a "friendly takeover" that will merge the two companies....
Eppendorf Acquiring NBS Scientific equipment maker New Brunswick Scientific (NBS) Co. Inc. and biotechnology company Eppendorf Group today announced Eppendorf will acquire NBS in a transaction valued at approximately $110...
PRODUCTS
2-Component Epoxy System HACKENSACK, N.J., July 31, 2007 -- Achieving high-performance cures at low temperatures has long been a problem for epoxy resin compositions. Master Bond Inc. said it has overcome this problem with its EP27 two-component epoxy resin system. In 6-mm thick films, EP27 will set in as little as two hours at only 40 °F and will cure in 48-72 hours, the company said. The product also features remarkably high physical strength...
Master Bond Inc.
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Ambient-Light Sensor SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2007 -- Avago Technologies, a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications said its APDS-9007 ambient-light sensor has a precise, logarithmic output...
Broadcom Inc.
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Avia 355-23 Solid-State Laser SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 31, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said its new Avia 355-23 delivers over 23 W of Q-switched output at 355 nm, making it the most powerful all-solid-state ultraviolet laser currently available. Based on the Avia...
Coherent Inc.
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PowerCut 3700 Automatic Cutting Machine MANCHESTER, N.H., July 31, 2007 -- Schleuniger's PowerCut 3700 automatic cutting machine, for measuring and cutting larger round and flat materials, has a powerful pneumatic cutter head guarantees a clean, perpendicular cut and can be...
Schleuniger Inc.
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LDF Fusion Splicers SURREY, England, July 30, 2007 -- Fujikura Europe Ltd. has introduced a line of compact large-diameter fiber (LDF) fusion splicers that can splice any type of fiber, using an arc fusion technique that eliminates the need for an...
Fujikura Europe Ltd.
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Silver Coatings Princeton Instruments has introduced protected and enhanced silver coatings for diamond-turned optics and glass. This addition to its Acton Optics product line offers durability and reflectance for...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Concave-Grating Spectrometer TAMPA, Fla., July 27, 2007 -- StellarNet Inc. has developed what it said is a "super range" concave-grating spectrometer for the UV-VIS-NIR (ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared) range from 200-1100 nm. An aberration-corrected...
StellarNet Inc.
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Spectralon Reflectors NORTH SUTTON, N.H., July 27, 2007 -- Labsphere Inc. said its new Spectralon laser-pump reflectors, the efficiency of which lamp- and diode-pumped lasers and dye lasers rely on for optimum performance, combine maximum reflectance with...
Labsphere Inc.
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Silver Coatings ACTON, Mass., June 26, 2007 -- Princeton Instruments has introduced protected and enhanced silver coatings for diamond-turned optics and glass. This addition to its Acton Optics product line offers durability and reflectance for...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Micro Miniature Metal Bellows Contacts Servometer/Precision Mfg. Group LLC's microminiature electrodeposited nickel bellows, which can be made as small as 0.020 in. (0.5 mm), are dynamically flexible -- they can bend, compress and cycle...
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Electroforms for Radiation Shields Servometer/Precision Manufacturing Group LLC, has refined its process for manufacturing precision custom-designed electroforms and thin-walled hollow metal components. It has developed a patented...
Servometer
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NIR/SWIR Line-Scan Camera PRINCETON, N.J., July 24, 2007 -- SUI (Sensors Unlimited Inc.) said its newest shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging system based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) technology -- the new SU-LDH digital line-scan camera -- is designed...
Sensors Unlimited Inc. - A Collins Aerospace Company
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Glass Diffractive Optical Elements MAINZ, Germany, July 24, 2007 -- Schott said a new a precision glass molding technique enables, for the first time, high-precision mass production of diffractive optical elements (DOEs) from optical glass. DOEs could previously...
SCHOTT North America Inc.
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iVista Digital Microscope GARCHING, Germany, July 23, 2007 -- Suss MicroTec AG said its new iVista high-resolution digital microscope significantly improves the productivity of operators and engineers -- who are increasingly faced with rapid device design...
SUSS MicroTec SE
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SpectraCAM Camera Systems Thermo Fisher Scientific, a maker of charge injection device (Cidtec) technology-based imagers and cameras, is introducing its SpectraCAM line of 16-bit digital scientific imaging systems designed...
Thermo Scientific - CIDTEC, Cameras & Imagers
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ColorRAD Radiation-Hardened Camera The ColorRAD is Thermo Fisher Scientific's latest addition to its Cidtec radiation-hardened product lines. The CID (charge injection device)-based camera provides sharp, crisp video images in...
Thermo Scientific - CIDTEC, Cameras & Imagers
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TF16-N Turbidity Meter GERMANTOWN, Wisc., July 17, 2007 -- Optek-Danulat's model TF16-N is a precise, dual-channel, scattered-light turbidity meter designed to provide inline control solutions for a variety of industrial gas and liquid processes, including...
optek-Danulat Inc.
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Blazed Holographic Concave Grating IRVINE, Calif., July 17, 2007 -- Spectrum Scientific Inc. said its new aberration-corrected blazed holographic concave grating, 470-250-040, has the world's highest efficiency, measuring at 85 percent at the 250-nm blaze wavelength....
Spectrum Scientific Inc. (SSI)
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R30 LED Floodlight Bulbs TORRANCE, Calif., July 17, 2007 -- R30 LED reflector floodlight bulbs from LEDtronics combine LED technology, a standard 25-mm Edison base and a light-optimizing design to produce vivid light. The direct-incandescent replacement...
LEDtronics Inc.
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Direct-Write E-Beam System PEABODY, Mass., July 16, 2007 -- JEOL USA's new high resolution direct-write e-beam lithography system complements its line of spot beam, vector scan systems and mask production tools. The new JBX-5500FS direct-write lithography...
JEOL USA Inc.
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iWave Diode Laser MUNICH, Germany, July 16, 2007 -- Toptica Photonics AG said its new iWave is a diode module in the ultraviolet (UV) and blue wavelength range with narrow linewidth and high power, serving applications such as Raman spectroscopy and...
Toptica Photonics AG
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M2 Beam Propagation Analyzer NORTH LOGAN, Utah, July 13, 2007 -- Ophir-Spiricon Inc. has reduced the size of and upgraded its 200S beam propagation analyzer, which it said is still the only ISO-compliant system for all reported measurements. Software...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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T-Light Fiber Laser MARTINSRIED, Germany, July 12, 2007 -- In response to industry demands for reliable, less expensive pulsed lasers, Menlo Systems GmbH said it has released its most compact femtosecond fiber laser to date, the T-Light. Germany-based...
Menlo Systems GmbH
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OnPulse Support Service SAN DIEGO, July 10, 2007 -- Cymer Inc.'s OnPulse light source support and parts service provides 24/7 remote monitoring capability and proactive tuning and maintenance by certified Cymer field service engineers. Cymer said...
Cymer Inc.
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LWIR Triple Field-of-View Lens KEENE, N.H., June 11, 2007 -- StingRay Optics of Keene, N.H., said it developed a motorized infrared triple field-of-view lens assembly in response to a request for a specialized lens assembly intended for use with a...
G&H StingRay, Optical Systems
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Compact Series Diode Laser System MAINZ, Germany, July 11, 2007 -- Semiconductor laser maker Dilas Diodenlaser GmbH has unveiled its new Compact series, an air-cooled, fiber coupled, high-power diode laser system with a very small footprint. The new system...
DILAS Diodenlaser GmbH
Fusion, Femtosource XL Oscillators VIENNA, Austria, July 10, 2007 -- Two new ultrafast oscillator systems from Femtolasers Produktions GmbH of Vienna offer a broad range of output power levels for applications including time-resolved spectroscopy and multiphoton...
Spectra-Physics Vienna
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Avia 355-14 UV Laser SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 10, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. has expanded its Avia line of ultraviolet (UV) lasers with the Avia 355-14, an intermediate power-level model in a package optimized for micromachining at high-throughput rates. The...
Coherent Inc.
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Metal Microbellows Servometer/Precision Manufacturing Group LLC presents microminiature electrodeposited nickel bellows manufactured with diameters as small as 0.020 in. (0.5 mm) that are dynamically flexible....
Servometer
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Precision Baffled Electroforms Servometer/Precision Manufacturing Group LLC has refined the process for manufacturing custom-designed electroforms and thin-walled hollow metal components for use as cold shields, radiation shields,...
Servometer
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IDP-3 Dry Scroll Pump LEXINGTON, Mass., July 5, 2007 -- Varian Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based supplier of scientific instruments and vacuum technologies, has introduced the IDP-3, a compact, dry scroll pump for applications in which vacuum performance,...
Agilent Technologies Inc., Vacuum Products Div.
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LightTools 6.0 PASADENA, Calif., July 2, 2007 -- Expanded system modeling tools and optimization capabilities are among the features of the latest release of LightTools illumination design and analysis software, said its developer, Optical Research...
Synopsys Inc., Optical Solutions Group
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MicroPhase 3-D Topography Device NORTHAMPTON, England, July 3, 2007 -- MicroPhase from PhaseView is a three-dimensional topography device suitable for surface characterization and 3-D measurements such as profiles, heights, roughness and waviness...
PhaseView
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Pulse-Energy Sensors SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 2, 2007 -- New pulse-energy sensors from Coherent Inc. are optimized for use with ArF lasers operating at 193 nm and with KrF lasers at 248 nm. The EnergyMax series sensors feature high accuracy and a large...
Coherent Inc.
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High-Intensity Green LED Chip SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 2, 2007 -- Osram Opto Semiconductors announced it is developing a low current, high-power green 1 mm2 chip featuring the latest in thin-GaN (gallium nitride) technology. With unprecedented brightness values of...
Osram Opto Semiconductors Inc.
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