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Agilent Technologies' 3 Gb/s BERT Provides Lowest Cost of Test for Electrical and Optical Device Manufacturing

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced a low-cost 3 Gb/s BERT (Bit Error Ratio Tester) that enables transceiver manufacturing test at one-third the price of the existing N4906B BERT.

15 Jul 2007

2006 Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize Awarded

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the 2006 Agilent Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics to four scientists for their development and application of the Dynamical Mean Field Theory, which explains properties of materials that previously had been poorly understood.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Explains Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Agilent Technologies Inc.has announced the availability of resources, free of charge, for anyone wanting to understand the principles and capabilities of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) for trace metals analysis.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Announces Precision Clock Jitter-Analysis Software with Femto-Second Resolution

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the release of precision clock-jitter-analysis software for data-independent clock-jitter evaluation in advanced digital communication systems, and for high-speed clock device design in the semiconductor industry.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces New Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced its 6100 Series of single quadrupole mass spectrometers, which comprises four new instruments, including a fast-scanning model.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Launches Automated Optical Inspection System

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the Agilent Medalist SJ50 Series 3 Automated Optical Inspection system (AOI), whose unique imaging chain and powerful inspection algorithms qualify it as the industry's best AOI.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Expands Use of HPLC Chip to Entire LC Mass Spectrometry Portfolio

Agilent Technologieshas expanded use of its revolutionary, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) chip to its triple quadrupole (QQQ) and quadrupole-time of flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometers.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry-First Lightwave Component Analyzer for Testing Multimode Electro-Optical Components at 850 nm

Agilent Technologies Inc. today demonstrated its latest lightwave component analyzer (LCA), the industry's first to test components at an 850 nm target wavelength.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Introduces World's First Complete Optical Receiver Stress Test Solution

Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a complete optical receiver stress test solution. The Agilent N4917A optical receiver stress test set provides repeatable conformance and characterization test results. Design ...

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Adaptif Photonics

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced it has completed the acquisition of Adaptif Photonics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Agilent Extends High-Precision Thin-Film Optical Coating Capability

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the installation of a new reactive magnetron thin-film optical coating system from Leybold Optics GmbH.

15 Jul 2007

Light-sensitive Molecule Heals Itself in the Dark

Sometimes all an overworked molecule needs is a good night's rest. According to a study by physicist Mark Kuzyk and colleagues at Washington State University, a molecule that loses its ability to fluoresce when st...

15 Jul 2007

New Generation of Optical Molecules

The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in Belgium and the Chinese Academy of Science in China.

15 Jul 2007

Using the Intersection of Mathematics and Computational Science to Understand the World

Undergraduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Howard University will now have a chance to pursue research at the intersection of mathematics and computational science, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

15 Jul 2007