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Lasers Simulate Black Hole Radiation
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 10, 2010 — A team of Italian scientists has fired a laser beam into a chunk of glass to create what they believe is an optical analogue of the Hawking radiation that many physicists expect is emitted by black holes. Although the laser experiment superficially...
Photovoltaic Plant
Nov 1, 2010 — Martifer Solar of Milan, Italy, the solar energy division of the Martifer Group, has signed an agreement with Sunflower Italy srl to build a photovoltaic power plant near Alessandria in northern Italy. Designed to produce 2.1 MW of power, the...
Copernicus Project Developing Photonic Crystal Technology
NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, Oct. 26, 2010 — European scientists and engineers have joined forces to pursue a visionary concept to employ photonic crystals for ultrafast signal processing with integrated optical circuits. The Copernicus project, which runs until the end of 2012, has...
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe Established
HAMAMATSU, Japan, Oct. 13, 2010 — Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. announced the establishment of Hamamatsu Photonics Europe GmbH as a 100 percent owned European headquarters at Herrsching, in the southwest of Munich, Germany. The creation of the new headquarters is part of the...
Opto Engine to Rep Laserpoint in US, Canada
MIDVALE, Utah, Oct. 12, 2010 — Scientific and laboratory laser distributor Opto Engine LLC announced an agreement with Laserpoint Srl of Milan, Italy, a laser measurement sensors and instruments provider. Under the terms of the agreement, the US company will act as the...
Rofin-Sinar Acquires Lasag from Swatch
PLYMOUTH, Mich., HAMBURG, Germany and BIEL/BIENNE, Switzerland, Oct. 1, 2010 — Industrial laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. said Friday that it has acquired Switzerland-based laser maker Lasag AG from The Swatch Group Ltd. for an undisclosed amount of cash. Founded in 1974, Lasag AG manufactures industrial Nd:YAG...
Global PV Demand Up 54% in Q2
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27, 2010 — Global photovoltaic demand rose to 3.82 GW (an increase of 54 percent) in Q2 from a much weaker first quarter in 2010, according to a report issued by Solarbuzz, an international solar energy market research and consulting company. The photovoltaic...
CERN Approves Revised Plan
GENEVA, Sept. 20, 2010 — During an intense series of meetings, the CERN Council overwhelmingly approved the laboratory’s revised Medium Term Plan for the period 2011-2015. The plan was originally presented at the council’s June session, at which CERN...
Single-Photon Project Launched
MILAN, Aug. 2, 2010 — “MISPIA” (Microelectronic Single-Photon 3-D Imaging Arrays for low-light high-speed safety and security applications) is a new collaborative research project funded by the European Commission in its Seventh Framework Programme for...
Europe makes gains in FTTH
ZAVENTEM, Belgium – There were close to 41 million fiber-to-the-home/ building (FTTH/B) subscribers worldwide in 2009, and the figure is expected to rise to 52 million in 2010, according to IDATE Consulting and Research, based in Montpellier, France. The company...
Cooling goes cryogenic
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – All-solid-state laser cooling, or “optical refrigeration,” a technique that can be applied to airborne and space-borne sensors, has been demonstrated by a team at the University of New Mexico under the direction of Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, a...
GigOptix Enters SOFI Project
ZURICH, March 11, 2010 – GigOptix-Helix AG, a subsidiary of Palo Alto, Calif.-based fabless semiconductor company GigOptix Inc., announced that it will participate in the European Union funded project Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits...
Laser Ablation for Art Restoration
FLORENCE, Italy, March 2, 2010 – Laser ablation has found numerous applications in biomedical and industrial settings. This technique involves removing material from a solid surface by vaporizing the material with...
Exclusive Distribution
Feb 28, 2010 — Lake Oswego, Ore.-based Spectrum Detector Inc., a manufacturer of standard and custom detectors, is now the exclusive marketing, sales and distribution agent in the US and Canada for Laserpoint srl of Milan, Italy. The latter is a manufacturer of...
Helios Aids Connections to CMOS
GRENOBLE, France, Jan. 15, 2009 – The nearly two dozen members of HELIOS (pHotonics ELectronics functional Integration on CMOS) have met or exceeded their phase-one goals for the large-scale CMOS photonics project, according to Leti, a Grenoble-based research firm that is...
Europe signs on to big x-ray facility
HAMBURG, Germany – Europe soon will boast a multimillion-dollar research facility that promises to open up completely new research opportunities for scientists and industrialists alike. The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL), which will be located in...
Solyndra Pens $105M Agreement
Nov 25, 2009 — Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary photovoltaic systems for commercial rooftops, announced it has signed a new multiyear framework agreement worth up to $105 million with solar integrator Sun System SpA, based in Milan, Italy. According to...
Presstek Selling Lasertel
GREENWICH, Conn., Nov. 23, 2009 – Digital offset printing products maker Presstek Inc. announced Monday it will sell its Tucson, Ariz.-based laser diodes subsidiary, Lasertel Inc., to Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems Inc. for $10 million.
Distribution Agreement
Oct 1, 2009 — Allied Vision Technologies GmbH of Ahrensburg, Germany, has added another distributor to its international network. A machine vision company in Istanbul, Turkey, E3TAM, will sell Allied Vision’s product range in Turkey. The agreement includes the...
The road to solar cell supremacy
Oct 1, 2009 — The silicon traditionally used to make solar panels is costly and inefficient at converting sunlight into electricity, experts say, yet it remains the material most commonly used to make solar panels. “This sounds rather ugly, but silicon is the...
Fiber Optics in Fashion
FLORENCE, Italy, June 26, 2008 – With 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers totaling more than 40 miles in combined length, the interactive art installation, called the Cloud, was quite a spectacle at this year’s Pitti Uomo fashion show in Italy. Photos courtesy of MIT's...
STMicroelectronics Inaugurates MEMS Production in Italy
Nov 27, 2006 — Semiconductor supplier STMicroelectronics announced today it inaugurated a new 200-mm (8-in.) semiconductor wafer fabrication line dedicated to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) at its manufacturing site in Agrate, near Milan, Italy. ST said it...
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