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Advanced Analogic Technologies Unveils New LED Backlight Driver Series

Developer of semiconductor system solutions, Advanced Analogic Technologies has unveiled the AAT1409/7/5 series of LED backlight drivers.

19 Aug 2010

GAO Fiber Optics Unveils New 3-Port DWDM for Network Environments

Supplier of fiber optic measurement and test devices, GAO Fiber Optics, has unveiled a new 3-port DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexer) for telecommunication networking systems.

19 Aug 2010

LED Chip Maker, Epistar Invests in Oree

Taiwan-based LED chip-manufacturer, Epistsar Corporation, has invested in planar LED lighting specialist, Oree.

19 Aug 2010

New DuroSite LED Wallpack Fixture from Dialight

Dialight has launched the new DuroSite Series LED Wallpack Luminaire for commercial and industrial lighting applications. The new LED luminaire is durable, offers high-energy savings, and requires less maintenance.

19 Aug 2010

Surgeons Use Transoral Laser Microsurgery to Treat Head and Neck Cancer

Surgeon s at the Washington University School of Medicine and the Barnes-Jewish hospital’s Siteman Cancer Center are following a new approach to treat neck and head cancer.

19 Aug 2010

UP Chemical and Chemtura Join to Enter High Brightness LED Market

UP Chemical and Chemtura announced a new collaboration for a joint venture company, which will produce and market metal organic precursors for High Brightness LED market in Asia-Pacific and South Korea.

19 Aug 2010

TSMC to Construct New LED Production Line

Silicon IC manufacturing foundry, TSMC, has assigned US$101.6 million for a new LED manufacturing line.

19 Aug 2010

Verizon Completes 1Gbps Bandwidth Trial on Existing GPON FiOS Platform

Provider of wireline and wireless communication services, Verizon has delivered about 1Gbps bandwidth in a field trial held in Taunton. The bandwidth was delivered on an existing GPON (gigabit passive optical network) in a FiOS network setting.

19 Aug 2010

New Optical Router Technology Holds Promise for High-Speed Internet

Researchers at MIT have developed a new flow switching technology that may provide an affordable solution for high-speed data access and internet.

19 Aug 2010

Sorrento Networks Unveils Tunable XFP for GigaMux 3200 Optical Transport Platform

Metro optical access solutions provider, Sorrento Networks has introduced the new Tunable XFP feature in the GigaMux 3200 platform for all of the company’s 10G services.

19 Aug 2010

Scientists Develop World’s Smallest Ultrasonic Transducers

Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed small ultrasonic transducers that can produce and detect ultrasound.

19 Aug 2010

ITT to Award Display Beam Combiner Assemblies Subcontract to eMagin

eMagin announced that ITT will award a subcontract to the company for the supply of DBCA (display beam combiner assemblies), such as the OLED-XL microdisplays. The subcontract will have $15.2 million potential value.

19 Aug 2010

OPTEK’s OPI1268 Optoisolator Available from Illuminated Components

Illuminated Components has released a new OPI1268 optical isolator that is suitable for power isolation purposes in high-voltage PCB circuits in office machines, medical electronic devices, and industrial electronics systems.

19 Aug 2010

Virgin Media Business Introduces 10G Point-to-Point Services

Virgin Media Business, UK telecom giant, has announced that it has planned to increase the speed of High Capacity and Ethernet Extension Services.

19 Aug 2010

Lockheed Martin Completes F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System’s Test Flight

Lockheed Martin has carried out the first test flight of the F-35 EOTS (Electro-Optical Targeting System) on the CATBird (Cooperative Avionics Test Bed) platform successfully.

18 Aug 2010