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SPS Unleashes New M700 Noyes Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

Specialized Products Company (SPC), which offers the most comprehensive selection of off-the-shelf tool kit solutions for professional system integrators and installers, has added the M700 Noyes OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer) tool to its 2010 source book catalog offerings.

16 Feb 2010

Foxconn and UMC Join Hands with Samsung to Invest in LensVector

LensVector™, Inc., the leader in solid-state optical components for camera phones, laptops and other consumer electronics, today announced that Foxconn Technology Group and UMC have joined Samsung as investors in the company’s $30 million Series C financing round.

16 Feb 2010

Eizo Nanao Launches Two New ColorEdge Series LCD Monitors

Eizo Nanao Corporation (TSE: 6737) today introduced two monitors to its ColorEdge series of hardware calibratable LCD monitors. The 30" ColorEdge CG303W and the 22" ColorEdge CG223W are designed for still and m...

16 Feb 2010

Day4 Energy Partners with SOLERA sunpower for 10MW Solar Modules

Day4 Energy Inc. (TSX: DFE), a leading supplier of high performance, cost-effective solar electric solutions, today announced it is has signed a frame agreement for 10 megawatts with SOLERA sunpower GmbH, in Southern Germany. The business relationship between the two companies started in 2009 and has been expanding rapidly ever since.

16 Feb 2010

Recent Technology Advances Enhance Aptina's HD Video-Enabled Mobile Product Portfolio

Aptina, the leading innovator of CMOS imaging technology, announced today that recent technology advances in addition to the recently released 14-megapixel 1080p60 MT9F011 have enhanced its portfolio of HD video enabled mobile products. This portfolio of products meets the needs of Aptina’s customers who are looking for best-in-class still and video CMOS imaging solutions to integrate into their mobile camera designs.

16 Feb 2010

New Trace Detector from Morpho Features Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometer

Hardened MobileTrace® detection system designed for extreme environmental conditions and frontline deployment

16 Feb 2010

Network of Telescopes Helps to Study Evolution of Stars

When scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put to work on other stars

16 Feb 2010

Smart Imaging Technologies Introduces New Image-Based Full-Chip Validation Tool

Smart Imaging Technologies has introduced ChipInsight™, an image-based, full-chip validation tool for the production flow of post-RET design validation. The product will be presented at SPIE's Advanced Lithography 2010 conference in San Jose, CA, 21 - 25 February 2010.

16 Feb 2010

DILAS Delivers New Homogenized Conduction-Cooled, Multi-Bar Module

DILAS, the diode laser company, is now delivering a new conduction-cooled, multi-bar module with a homogeneous top hat optical beam profile, capable of handling up to 500W output in standard wavelengths.

15 Feb 2010

Voxtel Introduces Deschutes BSI Series of Backside-Illuminated APDs

Voxtel has announced the release of its latest product line, the Deschutes BSI series of backside- illuminated APDs.

15 Feb 2010

Clearview Signs Supply Agreement with Optical Components Provider Ignis

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD), a specialist in fiber management solutions for fiber to the premises (FTTp) deployments, and Ignis ASA, a leading international provider of optical components, announced today that they have signed a mutual supply agreement.

15 Feb 2010

ST's Protection and Signal-Termination Device Requires Less Number of Optical Transistors Than Conventional Terminations

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in protection ICs, has announced the world's first device combining field signal-termination and protection functions, enabling designers of industrial control and building-automation equipment to increase system performance and EMI robustness while simultaneously cutting power consumption, size, and heat dissipation.

15 Feb 2010

Lockheed Martin's Beam Control System Focuses High Energy Laser in Lethal Demonstration

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that the Beam Control/Fire Control system for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully aimed the High Energy Laser beam in an experiment Feb. 11, in which a boosting ballistic missile target was destroyed.

15 Feb 2010

Origin of Stem Cells Identified by Biologists Using Microscopic Image of Zebrafish Embryos

Julien Bertrand and Buyung Santoso Track Individual Stem Cells

15 Feb 2010

ORNL Team Develops New Highly Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensor

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity.

15 Feb 2010