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 May 2005


NEWS & FEATURES
Samsung Calls for LCD Glass Standards BOSTON, May 31 -- Sang Wan Lee, president of Samsung Electronics' LCD business, called for the standardization of LCD glass sizes in his keynote speech at the Society for Information Display (SID)...
Imaging Tech Raises $1 Million BOULDER, Colo., May 31 -- imaging Technology international (iTi), a supplier of development tools and production systems for the industrial inkjet market, announced today it has completed a series A...
mPhase, Bell Labs Build Magnetometer LITTLE FALLS, N.J., May 26 -- mPhase Technologies Inc. and Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, announced they have produced the first core components of a sensor...
Nanomagnets Bend the Rules GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 26 -- Nanocomposite materials seem to flout conventions of physics. In the latest example of surprising behavior, reported by scientists* at the National Institute of Standards...
JDS Uniphase to Acquire Acterna SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24 -- JDS Uniphase Corp., a maker of equipment to build fiber optic networks, said Monday it will acquire Acterna Corp. in a $760-million US deal that will boost its presence in...
StockerYale Settles With SEC Salem, N.H., May 24 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today filed, and settled, a complaint against StockerYale Inc. that charged the company and its CEO, Mark W. Blodgett, with...
OSA, Bookham Announce Finalists WASHINGTON, May 24 -- The Optical Society of America (OSA) and Bookham New Focus announced the finalists of the OSA-Bookham New Focus Student Award, which recognizes students of excellence in...
SPIE Calls for Visa Reform BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 23 -- The US government should accelerate its effort to reform the visa process for international students, scholars and researchers, said SPIE (International Society for...
SPIE Supports Visa Reform BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 23 -- The US government should accelerate its effort to reform the visa process for international students, scholars and researchers, said SPIE (International Society for...
Cornell Produces Brighter Dots ITHACA, N.Y., May 20 -- By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective silica shell, Cornell University researchers announced this week they have created fluorescent nanoparticles with possible...
Gold Council Supports Nanorod Research PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 19 -- Solaris Nanosciences, a manufacturer of nanomaterials, announced that the World Gold Council is providing funding to pursue its anisotropic gold nanorod technology for...
Marketing Students Get an Eyeful BEDFORD, Mass., May 19 -- Marketing students in Ohio State University's School of Journalism and Communication were recently introduced to the science of eye tracking in a course using technology...
Algorithms Accelerate CAT Scans URBANA, Ill., May 19 -- Researchers at InstaRecon said computed tomography (CT) scanning systems will get a big boost in accuracy and speed thanks to mathematical methods it developed that can...
New Technique Produces 10-Carat Diamond WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Researchers at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., have produced 10-carat, half-inch thick single-crystal diamonds at rapid growth rates (100 micrometers per hour)...
OSA, SPIE Lobby for R&D Funding WASHINGTON, May 18 -- Increased, balanced federally funded research and development is critical to the nation's future, representatives of the OSA and SPIE (Optical Society of America; International...
CVD to Buy First Nano Assets RONKONKOMA, N.Y., May 16 -- CVD Equipment Corp. (CVD), a maker of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment, announced Friday it has signed a contract with First Nano Inc., of Carpinteria, Calif., to...
Intel Recognizes Student Scientists PHOENIX, May 16 -- Student projects involving a navigational system for the blind, possible discovery of an ancient coastline on Mars and an inexpensive "lab on a chip" for analyzing flavonoids...
Imaging Startup Gets NIH Grant ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 13 -- Koning Corp., a Rochester-based imaging startup, announced it has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a cone beam computed...
Simulator Team Zooms in on Education ARLINGTON, Va., May 13 -- Ants sitting on microchip "picnic tables," salt crystals in gritty detail and the scales of a butterfly wing are among the other-worldly subjects of images that can be...
NP Photonics Wins Amp Contract TUCSON, Ariz., May 12 -- NP Photonics, a supplier of optical components and modules for the sensing, military, industrial and R&D markets, was awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research...
NanoOpto Round Raises $2.5 M SOMERSET, N.J., May 12 -- NanoOpto Corp., a maker of integrated, modular nano-optic components, announced it has raised an additional $2.5 million in C-round venture financing from Masters Capital...
Flir Systems Elects Crouch PORTLAND, Ore., May 12 -- Flir Systems Inc., a Portland, Ore., maker of infrared imaging systems, announced that retired US Army General William Wright Crouch has been elected to its board for a term...
Cornell Builds Robot That Can Reproduce ITHACA, N.Y., May 11 -- Cornell University researchers announced today they have created a machine that can build copies of itself. The machine is just a proof of concept -- it performs no useful...
Cognex Acquires Vision Sensor Maker NATICK, Mass., May 10 -- Cognex Corp., a supplier of machine vision systems, announced it acquired DVT Corp., a Duluth, Ga.-based private maker of vision sensors, for $115 million. Cognex made a cash...
Edmund Optics Appoints Stevens BARRINGTON, N.J., May 9 -- Edmund Optics, of Barrington, N.J., announced it appointed Ruth Stevens, an adjunct professor of marketing at Columbia Business School, to its board of directors. Stevens...
Lockheed Lands HELLADS Role SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5 -- Lockheed Martin said today it was selected by General Atomics as weapon system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). General Atomics'...
EU Approves Kodak Purchase of Creo Eastman Kodak Co. announced it has received approval from the European Union to complete its proposed acquisition of Creo Inc. Kodak announced on Jan. 31 that it had entered into a definitive...
Slow and Confocal Light Among CLEO/QELS Topics WASHINGTON, May 4 -- New research in optical science will be presented at the 2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), to be held jointly with the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science...
Plaque Presents Nanotech Research Challenge ATLANTA, May 4 -- Biomedical nanotechnology might help shed light on the molecular mechanisms responsible for plaque buildup that can lead to heart disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Nanoscale Center Building Underway ARGONNE, Ill., May 2 -- Federal and state officials will visit Argonne National Laboratory May 6 to participate in a cornerstone-laying ceremony for The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), a joint...
PRODUCTS
Rayica, Wavica and LensLab Champaign, IL, May 31 -- Optica Software, a developer of virtual modeling and optical testing software for Mathematica technical computing software, has introduced a new suite of optical design products: Rayica, Wavica and LensLab. Rayica optical design software performs geometric, nonsequential and polarization ray-trace calculations of optical systems in 3-D space. It features a searchable...
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Photo-sensitive Epoxy OSAKA, Japan, May 26 -- Nitto Denko Corp. has developed a photosensitive epoxy material that can be used for optical waveguides. The new material is highly transparent in the near-infrared range, and...
Nitto Inc.
Laser-induced Spectrometer Systems DUNEDIN, Fla., May 26 -- Ocean Optics offers a selection of laser-based systems that can be used to identify light to heavy metals in a variety of sample types and geometries in environmental...
Ocean Optics Inc.
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New Illumination Systems, LED Bulbs SALT LAKE CITY, May 17 -- The CAO Group Inc. announced it has released three new products: The LuxemLED backlighting illumination system, MR-16 high-intensity LED bulbs and the LuxemChannel Pixel-...
CAO Group Inc.
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E-Series Handheld IR Camera NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., May 12 -- The new, compact ThermaCAM EX320 from Flir Systems, with a true, built-in 320 x 240 pixel array, provides four times the resolution of any handheld camera in its...
FLIR Systems
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Scepter Automated Connector Polishing System MORGANVILLE, N.J., May 10 -- Krell Technologies, a manufacturer of fiber optic polishing and inspection equipment, has introduced its Scepter automated connector polishing system, featuring...
KrellTech
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Anaerobic Connector Toolkit (SC & LC) ORISKANY, N.Y., May 11 -- Fiber Instrument Sales Inc. (FIS) has introduced a multipurpose, durable, anaerobic connector toolkit (SC & LC) that enables quick termination and provides an affordable...
Fiber Instrument Sales Inc.
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Photo-sensitive Epoxy OSAKA, Japan, May 26 -- Nitto Denko Corp. has developed a photosensitive epoxy material that can be used for optical waveguides. The new material is highly transparent in the near-infrared range, and...
Nitto Inc.
Rayica, Wavica and LensLab Champaign, IL, May 31 -- Optica Software, a developer of virtual modeling and optical testing software for Mathematica technical computing software, has introduced a new suite of optical design...
Optica Software
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