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OCT Distinguishes Between Low- and High-Risk Cysts
ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 19, 2011 — Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can distinguish between pancreatic cysts that are at low risk for becoming malignant and those that are high-risk. Other optical techniques often fail to provide images that are clear enough to differentiate between the two types. A: Photograph of the OCT instrument and imaging probe; B,B’: Gross appearance and magnified OCT image of the malignant mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN); C,C’: Gross appearance and magnified OCT image of the benign...
QD Vision Awarded DARPA Contract
WATERTOWN, Mass., Aug. 18, 2011 — QD Vision Inc. was awarded a $900,000, 12-month R&D development contract from DARPA to advance its quantum dot-based infrared materials and to deliver two prototype devices, the company announced yesterday. At the end of the program, QD...
Bandgap Engineering Issued 2 Solar Patents
WOBURN, Mass., Aug. 15, 2011 — Silicon nanowire solutions supplier Bandgap Engineering has secured a pair of patents that represent significant breakthroughs in solar energy conversion efficiency and cost, it announced. Titled “Designing the host of nano-structured...
Bruker Wins JPEO-CBD Contract
BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 12, 2011 — Bruker Detection Corp. announced it has received a contract for 40 systems from the Improved Point Detection System – Lifecycle Replacement (IPDS-LR) program through the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense...
Precision Optics Sells Patents for $2.5M
GARDNER, Mass., Aug. 11, 2011 — Precision Optics Corp. Inc. has announced the receipt of $2.5 million from Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., for all of its currently issued and nonexpired patents and pending patent applications. According to the...
Caliper Settles Lawsuits with Carestream
HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 9, 2011 — Caliper Life Sciences Inc. announced it favorably settled two lawsuits with medical imaging systems provider Carestream Health Inc. of Rochester, N.Y. The first lawsuit, filed in February 2010, alleged that Carestream’s marketing and...
High-Speed 3-D Imaging Could Improve Cancer Screening
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2011 — Researchers at MIT have developed an imaging system that enables high-speed, 3-D imaging of microscopic precancerous changes in the esophagus or colon. The new system is based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) techniques, which offer a way to...
Boston Micromachines Wins Contracts
Aug 1, 2011 — Boston Micromachines Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded $1.2 million in contracts for space imaging research by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program. In the first of two projects, the company will develop compact,...
Company Garners X-Ray Contract
Aug 1, 2011 — In New Jersey, Princeton Security Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments Inc., has won an international contract with a South American synchrotron research facility for a multielement array detector system....
Excelitas Opens LED Center in China
Aug 1, 2011 — Optoelectronics supplier Excelitas Technologies of Waltham, Mass., has opened an LED Center of Excellence at its facility in Shenzhen, China. The center will serve as a base for developing and manufacturing the company’s advanced LED-based...
Lambda to Distribute for opsira
Aug 1, 2011 — Light measurement metrology equipment supplier opsira GmbH of Weingarten, Germany, has appointed 7923%%Lambda Research Corp. of Littleton, Mass., as its exclusive distributor in the US. The arrangement will enable Lambda Research’s customers...
Raytheon Wins US Air Force Contract
Aug 1, 2011 — Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., has received a contract from the US Air Force to produce the first airborne tactical hyperspectral sensor system. The Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral, or ACES HY, is an infrared sensor system...
Solar sheet sucks up sunlight
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light is slated to hit the consumer market within the next five years. Generating energy using traditional photovoltaic (PV) methods of solar collection is inefficient and...
Metamaterial Engineers Blackbody Radiation
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., July 27, 2011 — Thermophotovoltaics may get a boost from a new designer metamaterial that can engineer emitted blackbody radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's temperature. A blackbody object represents a theorized...
Michelson Diagnostics Adds US Subsidiary
ORPINGTON, England, and BOSTON, July 18, 2011 — Medical device company Michelson Diagnostics plans to expand availability of its skin cancer imaging products at its new US subsidiary, Michelson Diagnostics Inc. The company has recruited Karen Miller Gillis as vice president of sales and marketing...
Nanotubes Store Solar Energy Indefinitely
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15, 2011 — Carbon nanotubes can be used to store solar energy and can be recharged when exposed to the sun. Storing the sun's heat in chemical form — rather than converting it to electricity or storing the heat itself in a heavily insulated...
New Electrochromatic Lenses Rapidly Change Color
STORRS, Conn., July 13, 2011 — Quick-changing electrochromatic transition lenses have been created that use an electric current rather than polymers to change colors in films and displays when triggered by light. The new technology has captured the interest of the US military as...
Newport Buying High Q
IRVINE, Calif., July 13, 2011 — Laser, components and positioning systems maker Newport Corp. announced Wednesday it will broaden its ultrafast laser capabilities by acquiring High Q Technologies GmbH, for an undisclosed amount. The company will join Newport’s...
Newport to Acquire Ophir Optronics
IRVINE, Calif., July 8, 2011 — Laser, components and positioning systems manufacturer Newport Corp. reported today that it will strengthen its position in photonics instrumentation by acquiring Israel-based Ophir Optronics Ltd. for $230 million in cash. Based in Jerusalem, Ophir...
II-VI Acquires Aegis Lightwave
PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 6, 2011 — Engineered materials and optoelectronic components maker II-VI Inc. has acquired privately held Aegis Lightwave Inc. for an initial consideration of $52 million in cash, II-VI announced Tuesday.
Robots and Autopilots Could Use a Bird’s-Eye View
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 6, 2011 — New research on how birds can fly so quickly and accurately through dense forests may lead to new developments in robotics and autopilots. Scientists from Harvard University trained pigeons to fly through an artificial forest with a tiny...
High-Content Imaging Provides Better Answers to Life’s Questions
Jul 1, 2011 — Researchers are turning more and more to high-content imaging for help with drug discovery, clinical trials, dosing strategies, and studies of cellular interactions and functions. And 3-D imaging could take these applications even further. ...
Willett Named Cognex CEO
NATICK, Mass., June 28, 2011 — Robert Willett, the Cognex Corp. president and chief operating officer, has been promoted to chief executive officer, the company has announced. Willett will continue to report to Dr. Robert J. Shillman, who remains as the company’s...
Compact Microspectrometer Achieves High Resolution, Wide Bandwidth
ATLANTA, June 22, 2011 — A new microspectrometer architecture that uses compact disk-shaped resonators could address the challenges of integrated lab-on-chip sensing systems that now require a large off-chip spectrometer to achieve high resolution. Spectrometers have...
Raytheon Begins Producing Hyperspectral Sensor
WALTHAM, Mass., June 21, 2011 — Raytheon Co. has received a contract from the US Air Force to produce the first airborne tactical hyperspectral sensor system. The Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral, or ACES HY, is an infrared sensor system developed to identify...
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