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DRDC Awards Obzerv to Supply Electro Optical Imaging System for Canadian Arctic Surveillance

Obzerv Technologies announces today that it has been awarded a $600k contract by DRDC-Valcartier (Defense Research and Development Canada) to supply an Electro Optical imaging system incorporating the ARGC-2400 for the Department of National Defense (DND) Technical Demonstration (TD) Project named Northern Watch.

5 Dec 2007

Highly Sophisticated Laser-Based Sensors to Study Biofuel Combustion

Let's say a fuel derived from biomass produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for fossil fuels.

5 Dec 2007

NASA's GLAST Satellite Arrives for Testing Before Launch in 2008

NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington for its final round of testing.

5 Dec 2007

MTS Expands Next Generation Fiber-Optic Network to Newfoundland

MTS Allstream, one of Canada’s leading national communication solutions providers, recently announced that it has expanded its facility-based IP broadband network to Newfoundland. This expansion was the final leg of a coast-to-coast national fibre-optic network designed to provide MTS Allstream customers with cost effective, advanced IP-based products and services.

5 Dec 2007

FARO's All-New Laser ScanArm V3 with Enhanced Accuracy and Lighter in Weight

FARO Technologies, Inc., the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, announced it has released an all-new Laser ScanArm V3. Among the enhancements, the new technology is 30-percent more accurate, 33-percent lighter in weight, and offers better performance in scanning dark or reflective surfaces than the Company's V2 models.

5 Dec 2007

Researchers Employ a Nanotechnology Atomic Force Microscope to Measure Cell Softness

A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists was able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the cells' softness.

5 Dec 2007

Agilent Enters Failure Analysis Probing Market

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Multiprobe Inc. today announced their intent to expand the companies' strategic partnership. As a result, Multiprobe's Multiscan Atomic Force Prober (AFP), the world's highest-resolution nanoprober, will be sold and supported by Agilent to customers in Asia and Japan.

4 Dec 2007

Veeco Introduces Latest 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Platform, the only metrology system available with the accuracy and precision required for non-destructive, high resolution three-dimensional (3D) measurements of critical 45nm and 32nm semiconductor features, with the speed to qualify as a true fab tool. Veeco's InSight 3DAFM was designed specifically to address Critical Dimension (CD), depth and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) metrology in a production environment.

From Veeco 4 Dec 2007

Applied Materials Named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for Pioneering Work on Solar Modules

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it was named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for its pioneering work on the Applied SunFab Thin Film Line, at a gala presenting the prestigious 9th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards.

4 Dec 2007

German Research Foundation Establishes Ten New Collaborative Research Centres

On 1 January 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centres, which will receive a total of 74.4 million euros in funding over the next four years, as well as a lump sum of 20 percent to cover indirect costs incurred by the projects.

4 Dec 2007

CAST Lighting Transformers with No-Surge Technology Eliminates Current Problem

CAST Lighting announced today the incorporation of soft-start technology into their professional line of 'Master Series'® landscape lighting transformers. The new exclusive patent-pending feature, No-Surge"!, marks the first time this technology has been incorporated into multi-tap power supplies.

4 Dec 2007

Purifying Wastewater from Hospitals Using UV Light

Hospital wastewater is contaminated with drugs that can pollute the environment. A newly developed system deals with the problem at source, directly treating and purifying wastewater from the toilets before it ever reaches the sewage plant.

4 Dec 2007

Laser Energetics to Form Joint Venture to Market Laser for Dental Applications

Laser Energetics, Inc. announced today that the Company has signed a Memo Of Understanding ("MOU") with Lantis Laser, Inc. of Denville, NJ to form a Joint Venture, on a 50:50 basis, to market and distribute its BrightStar(TM) Alexandrite laser for dental applications.

4 Dec 2007

Northrop Grumman LITENING AT Demonstrates Reliability with Over 765,000 Operational Hours

Northrop Grumman Corporation today announced that the LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) has achieved more than two years of operational availability consistently above 95 percent among all U.S. customers. LITENING AT systems are currently deployed with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Marine Corps, Air Combat Command and coalition forces.

4 Dec 2007

Xilinx Delivers Complete Solutions Based on Virtex-5 FPGA

Xilinx Inc., the world's leading provider of programmable logic solutions, today announced complete solutions for the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) System Packet Interface (SPI) 4.2 and SerDes Framer Interface (SFI) 4.1 standards, the industry's highest performance channelized packet interfaces.

4 Dec 2007