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Taiwan-Based Foundry Selects Falcon 800 Optical Inspection System

Camtek Ltd., announced today that a leading Semiconductor Foundry in Taiwan has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for metrology and inspection solution for the 3D integration circuits ("3D IC") process.

17 Mar 2010

MaxIC to Use WI Harper Investment to Expand LED Production

MaxIC Technology Corporation, innovators of energy efficient integrated circuits (ICs) widely used in LEDs for general lighting, LCD TV backlighting, and consumer electronics, today announced an expansion capital investment led by WI Harper Group. Currently shipping four product lines, MaxIC will use this investment to ramp up production and expand the company’s cutting-edge R&D efforts.

17 Mar 2010

Titan Energy Systems Deploys Suniva's Solar Cells in India

Suniva®, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced the commissioning of its largest solar power installation with Titan Energy Systems Ltd. (“Titan”), located in Karnataka, India.

17 Mar 2010

Optametra's Signal Analyzers with Tektronix Oscilloscope Support 100G Optical Measurements

Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that the accurate, fast acquisition system of the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope combined with OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers from Optametra deliver unprecedented ability to visualize and measure coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals in realtime.

17 Mar 2010

New Oval and Round LED Lamps from Avago Ideal for Electronic Sign Designers

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the industry’s first surface mount technology (SMT) high brightness oval and round LED lamps for use in outdoor and indoor electronic sign applications.

17 Mar 2010

Capella Teams Up with IMT to Develop Optical MEMS Devices

Capella Intelligent Subsystems, Inc. and Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. announced today the formation of a strategic foundry relationship.

17 Mar 2010

Printworks Installs Canon imagePRESS C7000VP to Meet Client Demands

Canon Business Solutions., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. and leading provider of document imaging and print production solutions, announced today that Printworks & Company, Inc. of Lansdale, PA has installed the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP digital press to support the growing demand for short-run quality color output.

17 Mar 2010

Kotura Demonstrates 12 Channel Mux and Demux Silicon Photonics

Kotura, Inc., an industry leader in silicon photonics, today announced successful demonstration of their Echelle grating Mux and Demux for 500 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing applications.

17 Mar 2010

NASA Releases Science Data Captured by LRO Camera

NASA is releasing to the Planetary Data System (PDS) the first six months of data acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

17 Mar 2010

Optics 1 and Irvine Sensors Sign Teaming Agreement for COTI Systems

Irvine Sensors Corporation (Nasdaq: IRSN) today announced that it has formalized its teaming agreement with Optics 1, Inc., of Manchester, New Hampshire, an optical systems designer and manufacturer, to support production opportunities for Clip-On Thermal Imager ("COTI") systems that have been jointly developed by the two firms over the last several years under government sponsorship.

17 Mar 2010

High-Powered Laser Initiates Upward Liquid Flow Along Silicon Surface

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have discovered a way to make liquid flow vertically upward along a silicon surface, overcoming the pull of gravity, without pumps or other mechanical devices.

17 Mar 2010

Ambarella Announces Availability of A5s Media Processor for IP Camera and Video Surveillance Markets

Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, high-definition video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the availability of the A5s Media Processor for the IP camera and video surveillance markets.

17 Mar 2010

Lunar Exploration Using LRO Images

A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released yesterday by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.

17 Mar 2010

NJIT Receives $1.5 Million Grant for New Solar Research Center

NJIT received today from Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. a three-year, $1.5 million grant to establish a solar research center.

17 Mar 2010

SPI Receives 1.75 MW Solar Installation Contract from Temescal Canyon

Solar Power, Inc. (“SPI”) (OTCBB:SOPW) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Temescal Canyon RV, LLC to design and build an elevated Recreational Vehicle (RV) parking structure which will incorporate a 1.75 megawatt DC solar system utilizing SPI’s top-ranked solar modules.

16 Mar 2010