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BAE to Provide Thermal Imaging Modules for Contract with U.S. Army's Remotely Weapon System

BAE Systems has received a $60 million order to provide thermal imaging modules to Kongsberg Defense + Aerospace AS for its contract with the U.S. Army's Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) II program awarded in August 2007.

19 May 2008

Researchers Have Recently Doubled the Efficiency of Infrared Lasers

Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have recently doubled the efficiency of infrared lasers under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers (EMIL) program.

19 May 2008

What’s Next in Advanced Display

Corning Incorporated will present its perspective on what's next in advanced display during Display Week 2008, the annual conference of the Society for Information Display (SID), held this week in Los Angeles, Calif. Corning has built its leadership position in liquid crystal display (LCD) by identifying existing and emerging technology market demands and translating those into powerful technology solutions that help shape the future of the display industry.

19 May 2008

Single-Chip Solution to Reduce Board Space and Costs for LED Lighting Applications

NEC Electronics America, Inc. and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH introduced the world's first microcontroller (MCU), part number uPD78F8024, with a constant high-current driver (HCD). The new HCD/LED MCU can be used in lighting applications that use more than one LED, in industrial control applications featuring stepping motor and solenoid drives, and in switching-mode power supplies.

19 May 2008

Breakthrough Greatly Enhance Applications Ranging from Security Screening to Chemical Sensing

Engineers and applied physicists from Harvard University have demonstrated the first room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz (THz) radiation, also known as T-rays.

19 May 2008

What Sets Gorilla Glass Apart is its Enhanced Durability

Corning Incorporated announced today that it will be featuring its recently introduced Gorilla(TM) glass at SID Display Week 2008, May 19-23 in Los Angeles. This new thin-sheet glass was designed such that, upon chem-strengthening, it provides device manufacturers with a highly durable, scratch-resistant liquid crystal display (LCD) display cover.

15 May 2008

OLED Market Revenues will Reach the Billion Dollar Mark by 2009

The Electronic Components Group at Frost + Sullivan is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the OLED display market to be held on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 10:00 am PDT.

15 May 2008

Small Package, Minimal External Components Help Drive Down Costs

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc., a developer of power management semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, announced today the AAT3102 and AAT3103 constant frequency, charge-pump-based, current source white LED (WLED) drivers.

13 May 2008

Ultra Compact Red-Green-Blue Chip-Based Lasers for Miniature Projectors

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high brightness, high power semiconductor lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it will exhibit at the Society of Information (SID) Display Week 2008 in booth 659 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA and will host private demonstrations of its high power miniature prototype BrightLase® Red-Green-Blue "RGB" laser.

13 May 2008

Concentrating and Directing Light Precisely to Where it is Needed

Light-emitting diodes save energy. In terms of their light output, however, they have so far been unable to compete with light bulbs. A new, low-priced optical component is set to change that situation: It concentrates the light and directs it precisely to where it is needed.

13 May 2008