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Sarnoff’s IOM Biometric Identification System Receives Best New Product Award

Sarnoff Corporation announced today that its Iris on the Move® (IOM) biometric identification system has won the Best New Product Award and Best Biometrics and Identity Solution at the Security Industry Association New Product Showcase.

20 Apr 2010

Ningguo City Municipal Government and Apollo Solar Energy Sign Non-Binding LOI

Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ASOE) ("Apollo Solar" or "the Company"), a leading vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te) and tellurium-based metals for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry and specific segments of the electronic materials market worldwide in the People's Republic of China, today announced the Company has signed a non- binding Letter of Intent with the Ningguo City Municipal Government to enter into a future joint venture that would build and operate the Ningguo-Apollo Solar Energy Community, to be located in Anhui Province, China.

20 Apr 2010

New Research on Photons Leads to More Efficient Quantum Computing

A team from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy fired light particles, or photons, into a tiny tower of semi-conducting material.

20 Apr 2010

NanoImaging Secures SBIR Fund to Develop New Methods Using Electron Microscopy

NanoImaging Services, Inc., announced today that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health through the National Center for Research Resources to develop new methods for quantitative characterization of nanoparticle morphology and aggregation state using transmission electron microscopy.

20 Apr 2010

Agilent and UCSD Establish New Chip-Scale Photonic Testing Facility

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), today announced they have established a new chip-scale micro- and nanophotonic- systems testing facility on the UCSD campus.

20 Apr 2010

Coherent Opens New CO2 Laser Applications Laboratory in China

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) has opened a new CO2 laser applications laboratory in Beijing, China. This facility will give customers in the rapidly growing Chinese materials processing and microelectronics markets the ability to get quick feedback on the suitability of their specific application for CO2 laser processing.

19 Apr 2010

New Planar Diffused UV Photodiodes Now Available from AMS Technologies

OSI Optoelectronics has released two new families of planar diffused UV photodiodes: the UV-EQ / EQC / EK series and the UV-DQ / DQC / DK series.

19 Apr 2010

Thorlabs Introduces S5FC Series of Benchtop Superluminescent Diode Light Sources

Thorlabs, a leading manufacturer of innovative Photonic instruments, is pleased to introduce the S5FC series of Benchtop Superluminescent Diode (SLD) Light Sources. These light sources integrate world class proprietary Indium Phosphide (InP) SLDs manufactured by Covega (now known as Thorlabs Quantum Electronics, TQE) with Thorlabs' all inclusive benchtop platform.

19 Apr 2010

Ricoh Americas Ranks First in Black-and-White and Color Copier Segment

In the annual Gartner U.S. copier market report for 2009, Ricoh Americas Corporation has been ranked number one for the third consecutive year in the combined black and white and color copier segment, earning a 23.1 percent share of the total market for multi-function products (MFPs).

19 Apr 2010