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 May 2007


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GE to Build NY X-Ray Plant General Electric (GE) Healthcare plans to build a facility to make digital x-ray mammography machines at Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush, N.Y., near Albany, state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno announced yesterday. The 150,000-sq-ft facility, to be built by GE, will reportedly employ 150 people with a total annual payroll of approximately $10 million and could create as many as...
'Spinplasmonics' Field Created By combining two nanotechnology fields -- spintronics and plasmonics -- researchers have found a novel way to control the quantum state of an electron's spin and created a new technology,...
Physicists, Radiologists Team to Improve PET Scans Electronics are being developed for identifying subatomic particles in high-energy accelerators that may also enable radiologists to detect cancer at an earlier, more curable stage. "The...
Agilent to Acquire Adaptif Agilent Technologies Inc. is acquiring Adaptif, a private maker of polarization analysis and control technology for testing optical components and systems in telecommunications, sensors and laser...
Lab Use of Qdots Specified In a step toward earlier disease diagnosis and personalized medicine, detailed protocols have been developed for using bioconjugated quantum dots -- luminescent nanoparticles linked to biological...
OSA Names Award Winners Daniel Kleppner, a physics professor emeritus at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard University Center for Ultracold Atoms, is the recipient of OSA's 2007 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn...
LEDs Woven Into Textiles Weavers in the San Andreas region of the Sierra Madre, Mexico, are incorporating high-brightness LEDs into textiles using traditional backstrap looms and sewing techniques as part of a pilot program...
Camera Catches Shark Attack Photron Inc.’s ultima APX camera was behind a killer shark attack of a Cape fur seal at dawn, off the southern tip of South Africa, depicted in a recent "Planet Earth" production by the...
Nanoscale LEDs Emit UV Light Nanowires have been used to create tiny, highly efficient ultraviolet LEDs that could help build the next generation of biosensors and optical communications devices. Researchers at the National...
Scanner Maps Collapse Scene Leica Geosystems redefined the word "support" when it assisted the California Highway Patrol's (CHP) multidisciplinary accident investigation yeam (MAIT) at the recent collapse of a major San...
Kodak Licenses OLEDs Eastman Kodak Co. announced today a cross-licensing agreement with a Taiwan display maker to incorporate Kodak's active-matrix organic LED (OLED) display technology in small-panel, mobile displays....
Food Channel Features Laser A CO2 laser system made by Universal Laser Systems Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., had a prominent role in a recent Food Network Special series, "Kitchens of the Future," which aired in April. Narrated by...
Polar Ice May Yield Secrets of the Universe A $272 million telescope buried more than a mile-and-a-half below the ice at the "bottom of the world" is expected to provide new information about some of the universe's biggest mysteries....
House OKs Laser Pointer Bill Anyone who is seized by the urge to point a laser pointer at the cockpit of an airplane might think better of it, thanks to a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would make it a criminal...
Study Urges Nano Oversight Although the general public continues to know little to nothing about nanotechnology -- the manipulation of matter on an atomic scale -- the number of consumer products containing some aspect of it...
Planar Acquires Runco Planar Systems Inc., a digital display maker based in Beaverton, Ore., announced today it has acquired Runco International Inc., a provider of home-theater equipment, for $36.7 million in cash....
Intel, STMicro to Form Chip Co. STMicroelectronics, Intel and private venture firm Francisco Partners announced today they will create a new independent company to make flash memory chips for a variety of consumer and industrial...
Tiny Implantable Biocomputers Developed A crucial step has been made toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The information provided by these...
Laser Goes Where Video Can't A laser-based item monitoring system (LBIMS) balances the need for high-resolution monitoring and personal safety with respect for confidentiality and personal privacy -- and is possible because it...
'Spin Transport' Controlled in Silicon The magnet-like spin properties of electrons have been measured and controlled in silicon for the first time, research that could lead to dramatically improved computers and cell phones. The...
'Revolutionary' NMR Advance A highly sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) approach to detecting the molecular structure of tiny proteins reduces the size of the samples needed so much it might one day diagnose glaucoma...
BAE to Provide Navy Sensors BAE Systems has been named sensor subcontractor for Raytheon Technical Services Co.’s shared reconnaissance pod (SHARP) target cueing system demonstration. Under a $2.3 million contract with...
PLEDs Aim to Improve Picture, Price Tag of Plasma Single-layer, inexpensive plastic LEDs are being developed that could make the next generation of flat-panel TVs brighter, clearer and less expensive. The record-breaking research will be presented...
Colloid Uses Could Include Medicine, Optics In answering a fundamental question about the unique properties of colloids, chemical engineers may have opened up a range of practical applications for them, including the manufacturing of medicines...
Pentagon VoIP Work Goes to General Dynamics General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today it was awarded a contract modification to design and install a voice-over-Internet-protocol...
II-VI to Buy Pacific Rare Specialty II-VI Inc., a Saxonburg, Pa.-based maker of crystalline compounds, announced today that one of its subsidiaries will acquire Pacific Rare Specialty Metals & Chemicals Inc., in exchange for cash....
UA Optics Class Exposed Each year for the last 15 years, Robert Walker has stood on a 20-ft ladder -- and withstood rabbit ears, funny faces "and worse" -- to photograph graduating classes at the University of Arizona (UA)...
Photosensitizers Use IR Source A new agent to treat certain cancers uses the unique light-emitting properties of specific nanoparticles to deliver tiny, yet therapeutic, dosages of antibodies and reactive oxygen to individual...
Heat-Resistant 'Nanoglue' Creates Superstrong Bond By taking a nanolayer of a commercially available glue material and sandwiching it between a thin film of copper and silica, researchers have developed an inexpensive method of bonding materials that...
SPIE Urges R&D Funding SPIE traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to request funding support for innovation legislation, science and math education, and federal agencies for fiscal year 2008. Also this week, a number of...
Warburg Pincus to Buy Bausch & Lomb Bausch & Lomb announced today it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates of Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm, in a transaction valued at approximately $4.5...
Congress Faults Purdue Probe The chairman of a congressional subcommittee has criticized Purdue University for conducting an incomplete investigation into a case of alleged misconduct involving nuclear engineering professor Rusi...
Nanotech Pioneer to Receive Waterman Award Nanotechnology expert Peidong Yang will receive the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 2007 Alan T. Waterman Award today in a ceremony at the US State Department. Yang has pioneered research on...
An ABL That Maps Ecosystems An airborne laser and hyperspectral remote-sensing platform is reinventing the science behind natural resource management decisions and is the most significant new tool since the advent of aerial...
Alcatel-Lucent to Buy NetDevices, Posts Q1 Losses Alcatel-Lucent announced today it will acquire NetDevices, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based private developer of services gateway products for branch office networks, including the SG8 and SG4 unified...
'1/f' Noise Discovery Could Improve Sensors, Detectors More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the US, Norway and Russia. Their work has taken a decisive step forward in...
AMD Reduces Work Force Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said Wednesday it cut 2.6 percent of its employees, or 430 jobs, as part of its cost-cutting strategy after reporting $611 million in first-quarter losses, the San...
Coherent Now Offers 1-Day Instrument Turnaround Coherent Inc. said it is now offering 24-hour shipping (the "C24" program) on its laser measurement and control instrumentation. The company said it will maintain inventory of its 25 most popular...
Gooch & Housego Buys Sifam Optical components and systems manufacturer Gooch & Housego plc announced this week it has acquired Sifam Fibre Optics Ltd. for £5 million (about $10 million) in a cash-and-stock deal. Sifam...
ABL 'Still on Track' Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, the three major defense contractors for the Airborne Laser (ABL) program, said in a joint statement yesterday they were "grateful" that the full House...
’Breaking Barriers’ 2007 CLEO/QELS Theme New optics concepts and phenomena that rely on 20th-century optics are recently becoming part of researchers’ fundamental tools, said Ben Stein, a senior science writer and editor at the...
Vision-Correction Pioneer Awarded Land Medal The Edwin H. Land Medal, which recognizes achievement in optics with major public impact, has been presented this year to a man considered to be one of the founding fathers of laser vision...
Optics Industry Sponsors Capitol Hill Day OSA members are calling on US congressman on Capitol Hill today to drum up support for initiatives including federal investments in scientific research and development for fiscal year 2008 and...
Chip Consortium Plans $600M UAlbany Expansion International Sematech, the research and development arm of Sematech, a consortium of international nanoelectronics manufacturers, will expand its operations at the University of Albany NanoCollege...
JDSU Acquires Innocor JDSU announced today an agreement to purchase Ottawa, Canada-based Innocor, a provider of broadband test products for network equipment manufacturers. Innocor's products complement JDSU's...
Laser Inventor Dies at 79 Theodore Maiman, PhD, inventor of the first operable laser and twice nominated for a Nobel Prize, died May 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathleen. He had been...
Northumbria Opens Research Labs A new £600,000 ($1.2 million) facility for Northumbria and Newcastle universities to teach and conduct research into photonic and radio-frequency (RF) communications, microwave communications and...
Mass. Tags $1B for Biotech Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced yesterday a plan to make Massachusetts the "global leader in life sciences," unveiling a collaborative Massachusetts Life Science Strategy during a speech...
IPG Reports ’Strong’ Q1 Results Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. reported its first-quarter results today and said its revenue increased by 28 percent, to $41.8 million, from $32.7 million for the first quarter of 2006, mostly...
Astrophysicist Named Purdue's 1st Woman President An internationally recognized astrophysicist was named yesterday as the 11th president of Purdue University and the first woman to hold the post. Following a seven-month search, France Córdova...
NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spacecraft and ground-based optical telescopes have observed the biggest and brightest stellar explosion ever recorded from what may be a long-sought new type of...
AMD Plans New Plants Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) executives attending the Saratoga Economic Development Corp.’s (SEDC) annual dinner on Friday said the chip maker might open a second or third facility at the...
Qdot Breakthrough Could Mean Cheaper Solar Panels A new method for producing quantum dots -- molecular specks of semiconductors -- could clear the way for the material to create better, cheaper solar panels than conventional ones made with...
VIRTIS Shows Sides of Venus The south pole of Venus and its gigantic double vortex have been pictured as never before in a series of videos from the European Space Agency's Venus Express, which has been capturing atmospheric...
BAE to Buy Armor for $4.14B BAE Systems announced today it will acquire defense contractor Armor Holdings for a price that includes $4.14 billion in cash. Rockville, Md.-based BAE Systems, the US subsidiary of London-based BAE...
Raytheon Lands IR Contract Raytheon Co. was recently awarded a $7.5 million contract to develop an improved composite material for infrared windows and missile domes by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)....
Kodak Posts Q1 Loss of $151M Eastman Kodak Co. today reported a net loss of $151 million, or 53 cents a share, on sales of $2.1 billion for the first quarter of 2007, which is nearly half the deficit the company posted in the...
$16.6M Project Seeks New Particle Accelerator A new £8.3 million (approximately $16.6 million) project being funded by the British government seeks to develop a new type of particle accelerator, which could lead to more effective cancer...
Chip Advance Uses Nature's Patterning Process The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel has been used to create uniform patterns of trillions of nanoscale holes in a microprocessor. The technique...
Kodak Selling Plant for $40M Eastman Kodak Co. will sell its plant and public-utility equipment in Xiamen, China, for approximately $40 million, the company said Wednesday in a regulatory filing. Kodak said it will sell the...
’Invisible’ Objects Closer A unique computer model designed by a mathematician at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to make objects, such as airplanes and submarines, appear invisible at close range....
X-rays Expose Magnetism X-rays have been used to see the internal workings of antiferromagnets for the first time, in work described as a breakthrough in understanding the materials. Unlike conventional magnets,...
HP Licenses NIL Technology HP said today it is beginning to reap returns from its 10-year investment in nanoscale electronics with the licensing of technology that could enable the fabrication of semiconductor chips...
CVI Acquiring Melles Griot CVI Laser LLC, a maker of optical components and assemblies based in Albuquerque, announced today that it will acquire Melles Griot from Barloworld Scientific Ltd. Terms of the deal were not...
Sematech Boosts Litho Research Funds Nanoelectronics consortium Sematech and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany (UAlbany), home to the New York State Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics and...
Groups Respond to Patent Rulings The president of the Licensing Executives Society today warned that this week's US Supreme Court rulings on patents "may end up watering down the patent system to the point where it no longer serves...
$500M Undersea Cable System to Link US, Southeast Asia A consortium of 17 international telecommunications companies will build the first high-bandwidth undersea fiber optic cable linking southeast Asia with the western US, it was announced on Friday....
High-Speed Laser System Takes Crisp, 3-D Retinal Images In work that could improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, a new type of laser has been developed for taking high-resolution, 3-D images of the retina, the part of the eye that converts light to...
NAS Names 72 New Members Seventy-two new members and 18 foreign associates from 12 countries were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their achievements in original research. The elections...
PRODUCTS
850-nm Semiconductor Laser Diode HUDSON, N.H., May 29, 2007 -- Laser Components IG Inc. said it has expanded its product range in the near-infrared spectrum with the release of the ADL85501TL, an 850-nm continuous-wave semiconductor laser diode. In addition...
Laser Components USA Inc.
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EnergyMax Sensors SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 22, 2007 -- Coherent Inc. said its new multipurpose EnergyMax series of laser energy sensors are the first commercially available products to combine large active-area, high repetition-rate response and high...
Coherent Inc.
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TFT LCDs Backlit by LED Rails RONKONKOMA, N.Y., May 21, 2007 -- Apollo Display Technologies said it has developed a method to make LED-backlit TFT LCDs compatible with night-vision imaging systems which furnishes VGA-and XGA-resolution TFT LCDs (thin-film...
Apollo Display Technologies
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5-mm Dome Aqua-Green LEDs TORRANCE, Calif., May 17, 2007 -- LEDtronics Inc. has introduced a discrete 5-mm (T1½) standard dome aqua-green LED, the LD200-0AG-15D. The 525-nm aqua-green LED, with a water-clear lens and a 15-degree viewing angle, uses an indium...
Ledtronics Inc.
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PR-680 SpectraDuo The battery-operated, portable SpectraDuo is the only available combined spectroradiometer with a photomultiplier-tube (PMT)--based photometer. The detector systems share alignment and viewing optics...
Photo Research Inc.
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Display-Measurement Systems The GS-1290-X-VFOV series of precision display-measurement systems from Gamma Scientific, optimized for the display-manufacturing market, perform a full range of measurements at near-instant speeds...
Gamma Scientific
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Compact Snapshot SWIR Camera PRINCETON, N.J., MAY 15, 2007 -- SUI (Sensors Unlimited Inc.), a supplier of shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging systems based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) technology, has released the new SU320KTS line of snapshot video...
Sensors Unlimited
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HCXtreme Fibers AVON, Conn., May 15, 2007 -- OFS' Specialty Photonics Div., a maker of optical fiber and cable, has introduced four multimode step-index fibers that have been optimized to enhance the performance characteristics of the fibers in...
OFS
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NIR Lens Systems ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 15, 2007 -- Navitar’s flagship high-magnification Zoom 6000, 12X and Precise Eye lens systems are now available with near-infrared (NIR) coatings. The systems, which are optimized for imaging in the 700-...
Navitar Inc.
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ProFlux Polarizers ProFlux polarizers are recommended for use as prepolarizers and analyzers and in polarization recovery products with incident angles less than 20 º. They are available with a BBAR coating optimized...
Moxtek Inc.
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Nanomaterials NanoGram's nanoparticle manufacturing tool (NPM) is production-scalable for compositionally complex materials used in displays, printable electronics, batteries, imaging products and semiconductor...
NanoGram Corp.
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Avia DUV Laser SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 9, 2007 -- The new Avia 266-3 from laser maker Coherent Inc. is a second-generation deep-ultraviolet (DUV) laser, combining high-power output with extended lifetime, output stability, and industrial-grade...
Coherent Inc.
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785-nm Raman Spectrograph ACTON, Mass., May 9, 2006 -- The Acton LS 785 Raman spectrograph from Princeton Instruments (PI) is optimized for the near-infrared (NIR). A proprietary refractive, five-element f/2 lens design produces the highest quality...
Princeton Instruments
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M2 APO Camera Couplers ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 8, 2007 -- Qioptiq said its Optem M2 APO couplers optimize image transfer to research-grade cameras, enabling the detection of the most subtle details of a specimen. Features include: Apochromatic optics...
Qioptiq
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High-Power LED Modules RODGAU, Germany, May 7, 2007 -- The team at laser systems developer Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH has created a new series of high-power LED modules (LEDMOD). The various models of the product are characterized by three...
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
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Metrology for Complex 3-D Objects Ase Optics Inc. has developed a unique non-contact scanning metrology instrument capable of measuring the surface profile and optical thickness of 3-D objects at a spatial resolution of 25 µm and a...
ASE Optics LLC (See Rochester Precision Optics)
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8-W Fiber-Coupled Laser Module BERLIN, Germany, May 4, 2007 -- Lumics' LU0915T080 fiber-coupled laser module, based on its new chip generation technology, uses up to 8-W output power at 915-nm pump wavelength and exhibits more than 60 percent...
Lumics GmbH
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DSM200 MEMS Metrology System GARCHING, Germany, May 3, 2007 -- With the DSM200, microelectronics and test systems maker Suss MicroTec AG said it has developed an automated metrology system for all emerging front-to-back alignment applications. According to...
SUSS MicroTec AG
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KR5 Sixx Cleanroom Robot The KUKA KR5 sixx CR cleanroom robot can be easily  integrated without unnecessary space consumption and satisfies the numerous requirements of cleanroom applications. The new robot, when combined...
KUKA Robotics Corp.
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Lw11059 Series CCD Camera OTTAWA, Ontario, May 1, 2007 -- Digital camera manufacturer Lumenera Corp. announced the release of the Lw11059 series of CCD megapixel USB 2.0 cameras, designed for use in a variety of industrial and scientific applications where...
Teledyne Lumenera
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