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Austrian Chipmaker Buys TAOS
PLANO, Texas, June 20, 2011 — Analog chipmaker austriamicrosystems AG will acquire Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (TAOS) Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal worth approximately $320 million, TAOS announced Thursday. The contract will bring together complementary leadership capabilities in the areas of analog mixed-signal design, power management, intelligent sensors and sensor interfaces that are critical core competencies for future generations of intelligent wireless and wired sensor platforms. Subject to...
Tronics Hires Sales Director
GRENOBLE, France, MILPITAS, Calif. & DALLAS, May 25, 2011 — International MEMS manufacturer Tronics has appointed industry veteran Hervé Borrel as director of sales and marketing. The former CEO of MicroChemical Systems, Borrel will guide expansion and growth of Tronics’ US operations, including...
Nanoantennas Hold Promise for IR Photovoltaics
HOUSTON, May 11, 2011 — A new device that can act as an optical antenna by collecting and focusing light, and as a photodiode by converting light into a current of electrons, has been developed by Rice University researchers. This nanoscale device, dubbed nanoantenna, has...
Imaging in the Ultrafast Lane
May 1, 2011 — For ultrafast imaging at wavelengths well below the visible, consider the work being done by a team led by professors Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane. The married couple holds appointments in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and...
ALM Acquires Stake in Laser Sintering Biz
KRAILLING, Germany, April 29, 2011 — Advanced Laser Materials (ALM), which develops and manufactures materials for rapid manufacturing, announced its strategic partnership with Integra Services of Temple, Texas, which offers technical expertise to the laser sintering business. The...
‘Time Traveling’ Mirrors Arrive at Space Center
GREENBELT, Md., April 27, 2011 — NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received the primary and secondary mirror engineering design units (EDUs) from Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. The units currently are undergoing examination and testing, and when used on the James...
Strong Growth Projected for Silicon Photonics Market
DALLAS, April 27, 2011 — The silicon photonics market is expected to reach a value of the $2.02 billion by 2015, reflecting a five-year compound annual growth rate of 78.2 percent, according to the report Global Silicon Photonics Market (2010-2015), published by...
Mouser, Osram Expand in Europe
MANSFIELD, Texas, April 8, 2011 — Mouser Electronics Inc. has announced the expansion into Europe of its distribution partnership agreement with Osram Opto Semiconductors of Regensburg, Germany. The extended agreement further strengthens Mouser’s European line card by...
Bioeffects Researcher Wins LIA Award
ORLANDO, Fla., April 7, 2011 — The 2011 George M. Wilkening Award has been presented to Dr. Benjamin Rockwell by the Laser Institute of America (LIA) for his exceptional contributions to laser bioeffects research. Rockwell is a principal research physicist in the Air Force...
LIA's 2011 LAM Workshop Gains Momentum
ORLANDO, Fla., March 21, 2011 — The Laser Institute of America’s Third Annual Laser Additive Manufacturing Workshop in Houston drew 170 attendees and 25 vendors last month. Since the workshop was introduced in 2009, attendance has risen each year. This year’s...
Display Maker Hires Optics and Materials Expert
TULSA, Okla., March 7, 2011 — Three-dimensional and display technologies developer 3DIcon Corp. announced the appointment of Dr. Brian G. Hoover as vice president of technology development. In his new position, Hoover will work with Dr. Hakki Refai, the company’s...
Plant Expansion
Mar 1, 2011 — In Carrollton, Texas, optical end-point detection systems provider Verity Instruments Inc. has completed its plant expansion, which now provides a 300 percent larger production area and 50 percent more office space. The new 65,000-sq-ft facility...
West Coast Sales
Jan 1, 2011 — Nikon Metrology Inc. has opened a Western regional sales office in Irvine, Calif. The facility will serve as a sales and demonstration center for current and potential customers in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, parts of Southern...
Heat, Dissipation Measured at Molecular Level
HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2010 — Researchers have figured out a way to determine the temperature of a molecule or flowing electrons by using Raman spectroscopy combined with an optical antenna. A new paper from the lab of Douglas Natelson, a Rice University professor of...
Metamaterials Research: ‘Project Squid Skin’
HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2010 — Nanotechnologists, marine biologists and signal-processing experts from Rice University, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and other US universities have won a $6 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to unlock the...
US Army Awards Raytheon Sensor Order
MCKINNEY, Texas, Dec. 17, 2010 — Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $42.9 million delivery order for 57 Common Sensor Payload electro-optical and infrared sensor systems. The order is part of a contract originally awarded by the US Army in November 2007, with options worth up to $1.2...
BAE to Provide Military Laser Warning Sensors
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 14, 2010 — BAE Systems will provide laser warning sensor sets to protect US military aircraft under a $17.7 million contract by Alliant Techsystems. The contract provides components for the AAR-47 Missile Approach Warning System, part of the ongoing US...
Doped Nanotubes Shine Brighter for Months
HOUSTON, Dec. 13, 2010 — Rice University researchers have discovered a simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter. Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in nanotube spectroscopy and a researcher at Rice, found that adding tiny amounts of ozone to batches of single-walled...
China LED Production Surging Ahead
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 9, 2010 — IMS Research’s latest Quarterly LED Supply and Demand Report reveals that while China was ranked fourth for LED production in Q3 2010 with a 13 percent share of 2” equivalent wafer capacity, by Q4 2011 it will become the number one...
Nikon Metrology Opens Office
BRIGHTON, Mich., Nov. 30, 2010 — Nikon Metrology Inc. recently announced the opening of its new Western regional sales office in Irvine, Calif. The facility will serve as a sales and demonstration center for current and potential customers in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado,...
Raytheon's Optical Sensor Studied for Missile Defense
MCKINNEY, Texas, Nov. 16, 2010 — Raytheon Co.'s Airborne Optical Sensor system is now an integral part of the Missile Defense Agency's experimentation with forward-deployed, advanced infrared sensors for missile defense applications. "Raytheon is proud to provide this...
Plasmonic Nanobubbles Kill Cancer Cells
HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2010 — Plasmonic Nanobubbles Kill Cancer Cells HOUSTON, Oct. 6, 2010 — Rice Plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and destroy cancer cells in vivo by creating tiny, shiny vapor bubbles that reveal...
Entech Begins Certificate Testing of CPVs
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 6, 2010 — Entech Solar Inc. announced that it will submit its latest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) product called SolarVolt for independent certification testing this fall. This milestone is a key step in commercializing the company’s latest CPV...
Nano Antenna Captures Light
HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2010 — Antennas capture aerial signals that make devices, such as radios and cell phone, work better. Now, a lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light in the same way, at a small scale that has big potential. Condensed matter...
Fiber Optic Fence Performance Impresses
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 16, 2010 — In mid 2009, a fiber optic intrusion detection system was installed on McAllen-Miller International Airport's perimeter fence in McAllen, Texas. The system, known as Secure Fence, was developed by Future Fibre Technologies. The airport's security...
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