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First Commercial Sampling of GigOptix’s 40G Electro-Optical Polymer Modulators

GigOptix, Inc., a leading provider of electronic and electro- optic components for the optically connected digital world, today announced that the Company has sampled its LX8400, a 40G DPSK Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM), to a Tier-1 telecom systems manufacturer in Asia.

22 Apr 2010

TRIUMPH Project Creates All-Optical Transparent Networks in Various Bandwidth and Wavelength

Promising faster, more efficient and cheaper computer networking, transparent networks are the paradigm of the future. But thanks to European researchers, they are on their way already.

22 Apr 2010

UJI Wins Bid for New Solar Cell Research Project

After responding to a call for proposals, the research group led by Juan Bisquert at Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has won the bid for a scientific and technological research project on new types of solar cells based on nanotechnologies.

22 Apr 2010

New Digital Label Finishing System Launched by Primera

Primera Technology, Inc., a leading manufacturer of digital color label presses and color label printers, today announced its new FX1200 Digital Label Finishing System.

22 Apr 2010

Cypress Annonuces New Hover Feature for Smart Touchscreen Solutions

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced support for hover detection for its capacitive touchscreen technology.

22 Apr 2010

Micrel Launches New MIC23060 IC for Mobile Phones and Digital Cameras

Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today introduced the MIC23060.

22 Apr 2010

INFRAX Establishes New Subsidiary for Strategic Acquisitions

INFRAX SYSTEMS, Inc. (OTCBB: IFXY), a global provider of interrelated operational management, and communications related products and services for the Telecommunications and Energy industry, today announced that the Company has established a new subsidiary company for Merger and Acquisitions: INFRAX Acquisition, Inc.

22 Apr 2010

Digital Ally Wins New Contracts for In-Car Video Cameras

Digital Ally, Inc., which develops, manufactures and markets advanced video surveillance products for law enforcement, homeland security and commercial security applications, today announced the recent receipt of a major contract from a South American country and an initial pilot order from a Middle Eastern country.

22 Apr 2010

UCF to Receive Intersil’s Wafer Fabrication Facility in Florida as Donation

Intersil Corporation, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced that it will donate a high-technology semiconductor wafer fabrication facility and the land it occupies to the University of Central Florida.

22 Apr 2010

Nano-Based Solar Cell Developers Look for Opportunities in Cleantech

Environment and energy, or "cleantech," applications have become a target for more and more companies developing intermediate products, like batteries and solar cells, based on nanotechnology -- products called "nanointermediates."

22 Apr 2010

Researchers Develop New Imaging Tool to Study Living Cells

Atomic force microscopy, a tactile-based probe technique, provides a three-dimensional nanoscale image of a material by gliding a needle-like arm across the material's surface.

22 Apr 2010

Risø's LIDAR Provides Accurate Mapping of Ash Cloud

The good news comes after DMI has analysed LIDAR measurements from Risø. At DMI, Chief Consultant Jens Havskov Sørensen has exchanged data with Torben Mikkelsen from Risø DTU and compared the measurements from Risø's LIDAR with DMI's model cloud and cloud observations.

22 Apr 2010

UCF Team Uses Spitzer Space Telescope to Measure Direct Light of Smallest Exoplanet

A Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a small star about 33 light years away could be a key stepping stone on the path to making sense of an Earth twin.

22 Apr 2010

ONCE Introduces New SCD Technology for AC LED Lightings

LED lighting design and manufacturing company, Once Innovations, Inc. (ONCE) has introduced initial AC LED lighting products with ONCE proprietary conditioning circuitry that dramatically improves both total harmonic distortion (THD) and power factor (PF) relative to existing AC LED lights.

22 Apr 2010