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MagnaChip Begins Shipping its Medium-Sized AMOLED Display Driver ICs

MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a leading Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications, today announced that it began shipping its medium-sized AMOLED display driver ICs in April 2008.

5 May 2008

Providing University Significant Upgrade in Available Bandwidth

XKL, LLC, a provider of enterprise network equipment, today announced the University of Washington in Seattle has deployed the XKL DXM optical transport system to drive a fiber network, providing the University a significant upgrade in available bandwidth and considerable room for future growth.

5 May 2008

CN 4200, CoreDirector and CoreStream Pass Rigorous JITC Evaluation

Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) has completed testing of Ciena's CN 4200® FlexSelect(TM) Advanced Services Platform, CoreDirector® Multiservice Optical Switch and CoreStream® Agility Optical Transport System for optical standards and interoperability in Department of Defense (DOD) networks.

5 May 2008

LED Light Fixture Suppliers Predict Strong Export Growth

Eighty-one percent of Greater China LED light fixture suppliers predict strong export growth of 10 percent or more in the next 12 months, due primarily to a wider range of LED-based general lighting applications. This is according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: LED Light Fixtures.

5 May 2008

Product Based on Hazard-Detection Technology Developed for U.S. Army

JMAR Technologies, Inc. a leading developer of advanced laser, photonics and detection products, today announced that it will unveil the first commercial prototype of its double-pulse laser system at next week's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) in San Jose, California.

2 May 2008

Helping LCD TV Manufacturers and Brands Reduce Power Consumption of LCD TVs

The LCD TV Association, a global, not-for-profit, marketing trade association formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers, recently launched its GreenTV logo program to help focus LCD TV manufacturers and brands on reducing the power consumption of LCD TVs and raising consumer awareness.

2 May 2008

Energy Innovations Announces Availability of RayTracker GC Solar Tracker

Energy Innovations, Inc., manufacturer of commercial solar products that maximize usable energy from the sun, announced today the immediate availability of RayTracker(TM) GC, a single-axis, solar tracker for ground-mount and carport-mount applications that maximizes the energy yield of a photovoltaic system.

1 May 2008

Indium Nitride-Based Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Potentially Provide High Efficiency and Resistance to Extreme Conditions

Kopin Corp., the world's leading provider of heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) wafers for cellular phones and wireless local area networks, today announced that it has been selected for the award of a $600,000 solar cell development contract from NASA.

1 May 2008

The Much Anticipated and Only 1.5” Displays Are Now Available to Consumers

At its Annual Dealer Show this week, Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc. will showcase its 1.5" family of UltraThin Displays, which, for the first time, are now available for purchase by U.S. consumers.

1 May 2008

Industry’s Smallest and Highest-Power Solar Array Simulator

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a modular solar array simulator that offers the most power (up to 1200W) in the smallest package (2U high).

1 May 2008

Company to Now Integrate Optical Bonding into Customer Offerings

Touch International, Inc. (TI) today announced it has acquired the specialized industrial LCD enhancement assets from the Torrance, Calif. location of DuPont Display Enhancements, Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont.

1 May 2008

The Relationship Between Migratory Birds, Light and Earth's Magnetic Field

A team of researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Oxford are the first to model a photochemical compass that may simulate how migrating birds use light and Earth's weak magnetic field to navigate.

30 Apr 2008

Microscopic X-Ray CT is Expected to Help Scientists Testing Gene Function

A technique called microscopic X-ray computed tomography (microCT) is affording scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may lead to new understandings about human birth defects, said Charles Keller, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

30 Apr 2008

Silfab to Produce 2500 Tons of Solar Grade Polysilicon Annually from 2009

CDI Corp. announced today that its CDI Engineering Solutions business unit has been selected by Silfab S.p.A. to provide technology integration, basic engineering and detailed engineering services for Silfab's solar grade polysilicon manufacturing project to be built in Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy.

30 Apr 2008

DRS Technologies Announces Contract to produce Thermal Weapon Sights

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today the receipt of new contract orders totaling over $51 million to produce Thermal Weapon Sights II (TWS II). The contracts were awarded by the U.S. Army’s Research, Development & Engineering Command’s (RDECOM) Acquisition Center at the U.S. Army Garrison Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, acting on behalf of Program Executive Office Soldier at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

30 Apr 2008