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Newport Buys Corning OCA'sCommercial Optics Operation

Oct 25, 1999 — IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 25 -- Newport Corp. has acquired the commercial optics operation of Corning Inc. subsidiary Corning OCA Inc. The company expects the cash transaction to accrete to earnings immediately. Based in Garden Grove, Calif., Corning OCA's commercial operation manufactures high-performance precision optical products and systems, specializing in opto-mechanical subassemblies as well as thin-film technology and coatings. The company expects pro forma sales for 1999 to total...

Andover Corp. Offers On-Line Buying

Oct 5, 1999 — SALEM, N.H., Oct. 5 -- Andover Corp., a manufacturer of optical interference filters and optical coatings for the electro-optics and biomedical markets, announced that it now offers on-line buying on its Web site, www.andcorp.com. As part of its...

Flex Products Will Supply Banknote Pigment to China

Oct 1, 1999 — Flex Products Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Optical Coating Laboratory Inc., will establish a manufacturing facility in China that will produce the company’s patented optically variable pigment for use on Chinese currency and...

Ultrathin Films Retain Bulk Properties

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Polymer films less than 100 nm thick have molecular properties nearly identical to the same material in bulk, according to recent findings of a study published in the July 8 issue of Nature. The findings confirm that thin...

Call for Congressional Fellows

Sep 1, 1999 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Materials Research Society (MRS) invite applications for the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship, a one-year position to begin Sept. 1, 2000. The program was established in 1995 to facilitate...

Semiconductor Industry Shows Signs of Recovery

Sep 1, 1999 — Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International of Mountain View, Calif., reported a preliminary June 1999 book-to-bill ratio of 1.24 for North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment. The trade organization, which represents...

Applied Materials Reports Increased Quarter Earnings

Aug 19, 1999 — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 19 -- Applied Materials Inc. reported a fivefold surge in its third-quarter earnings, which it attributed to the ongoing recovery of the semiconductor industry. For the quarter ended Aug. 1, 1999, the company reported net...

Co-Inventor of the Nd:YAG Dies

Aug 1, 1999 — LeGrand G. Van Uitert, co-inventor of the Nd:YAG laser, died June 3. He retired in 1989 after working as a research chemist and materials scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., for 37 years. A member of the National Academy of...

Old Crystal Looks for New Growth

MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- There is new competition in the alexandrite laser market. Laser Energetics Inc. of Mercerville, N.J., recently bought the alexandrite laser business -- including patents, lasers and materials -- of Allied Signal Inc. of...

Luminescent Films Called Key to Photonic Computers

Jul 5, 1999 — TORONTO, Canada, July 6 -- Materials chemists at the University of Toronto have created a new kind of luminescent silicon film that they believe could open the door to entirely photonic computer and telecommunications systems. According to the...

And the Academy Award Winner Is -- Carl Zeiss

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- One award-winning Hollywood star has neither perfect skin nor drop-dead beauty. At the latest gathering of the glitterati, a camera lens was recognized for its performance and given a Scientific and Engineering Award from the...

Laser Materials Processing Committee Formed

Jul 1, 1999 — The Laser Institute of America plans to give members of the laser materials processing community a stronger voice. It has announced that it is reorganizing the laser materials committee with the hope of strengthening the network of members in the...

Partnership Eyes Deep-UV Photolithography

Jul 1, 1999 — Cymer Inc. and Carl Zeiss Lithos have teamed up to facilitate the development of optical components and modules for lithography light sources. San Diego-based Cymer supplies illumination sources for deep-UV photolithography, and Carl Zeiss Lithos of...

Visible Light Reflects Nearly Perfectly

ESSEN, Germany -- ESSEN, Germany -- Materials with photonic bandgaps hold great promise for a wide variety of applications, but three-dimensional versions are difficult to manufacture. A few research groups have developed one-dimensional photonic crystals with a...

Ge-Doped Glass Produces Unique Light Polarization

Jun 1, 1999 — Researchers led by Patrick Kazansky of the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton in the UK have conducted a series of experiments that may further explain light polarization in glass. They used Ge-doped silica glass, which...

InGaN Quantum-Well Laser Diode Achieves CW Operation

Jun 1, 1999 — Researchers from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in California have demonstrated continuous-wave (CW) operation of InGaN quantum-well laser diodes at room temperature. The quantum wells were grown on sapphire substrates using organic...

Semiconductor Sales Up, but for How Long?

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- North American makers of semiconductor equipment are seeing a steady rise in their worldwide bookings of new sales, according to figures compiled by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. The monthly reports of...

WDM Spurs Demand for Next-Generation Components

INDIANAPOLIS -- INDIANAPOLIS -- With optical fiber capacity increasing by a factor of two every year, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is becoming critical to continued growth of that number. This is what Alastair M. Glass, director of the Photonics Research...

Viratec Completes Expansion, to Begin Coating Production

May 21, 1999 — FARIBAULT, Minn., May 21 -- Viratec Thin Films Inc. has completed a $15-million expansion and is soon to commence production of Infinity V, the largest known vertical anti-reflection coater in the world. The fully automated Infinity V coating system...

Firms Join To Push Light-Emitting Polymer Displays

May 20, 1999 — SAN JOSE, Calif., May 20 -- Cambridge Display Technology and Covion, developers of Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) devices and materials, have formed the Polymer Display Alliance (PODIA). The goals of the alliance are to remove the barriers to market...

IR Microscope Images Materials at nm-Scale

May 14, 1999 — MARTINSRIED, Germany, May 14 -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry have developed a microscope to identify material composition on a nanoscale using infrared (IR) vibrational absorption and a scanning metal tip. The scientists...

Cymer, Carl Zeiss Form Strategic Alliance

May 12, 1999 — SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 12 -- Cymer, Inc., a supplier of illumination sources for deep ultraviolet photolithography, and Carl Zeiss Lithos, a subsidiary of Carl Zeiss, have formed a strategic alliance to develop and design leading-edge optical...

Phase-Separation Method Leads to Better AR Coating

May 1, 1999 — Since the 1930s, it has been common practice to cover lenses with antireflection coatings to enhance the performance of devices that require the maximum transmission of light. Despite years of intensive research, broadband antireflection coatings...

Photonic Crystals Grow Themselves

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Researchers have experimented with photonic crystals for more than a decade, seeking to develop materials that can be used as building blocks for photonic devices. An innovation from the University of Rochester may radically change the way these...

Technique Takes Deeper Look at Paper

JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland — When papermakers cook up a new recipe for paper, they want to be sure it's going to work right before making reams and reams of it. Chemists at the University of Jyväskylä have developed spectroscopic techniques to get a three-dimensional analysis...

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