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Groundbreaking Ceremony of TSMC's LED Lighting Fab

TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today held a groundbreaking ceremony for its LED lighting R&D center and fab in Hsinchu Science Park, setting an important milestone for the company’s entry into green energy.

26 Mar 2010

Zytronic to Discuss Touch Sensor Technologies at UK Conference

Zytronic, the developer and manufacturer of PCT-based touch sensor products, is set to take part in the conference ‘Specifying the Right Display for Your Application’, organised by the Photonics & Plastic Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network.

26 Mar 2010

DOMINANT Unleashes InGaN Power DomiLED for Lightings and Signages

DOMINANT introduces new high intensity InGan devices, DWx-LJG of its Power DomiLED series, alternative to the existing DWx-YJG device and completing their product portfolio of medium power LEDs.

26 Mar 2010

Bridgelux and Molex Launch New Sustainable LED Lighting Solution

Bridgelux and Molex Incorporated today introduced the first LED lighting solution designed and priced to drive rapid, mass market adoption of LED lighting technology.

26 Mar 2010

Sumitomo Announces New Splice-On Connector for Fiber Optic Network Applications

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a leader in fiber optic product manufacturing, announced today the introduction of the Lynx2 CustomFit® Splice-On Connector, the first splice connector in the industry to offer the three leading connector types, SC, LC, and FC for single-mode, 50 and 62.5 micron multimode, and gigabit laser optimized multimode fiber types.

26 Mar 2010

Source Photonics Unveils Industry’s First 6 Gb/s SFP+ Optical Module

Source Photonics, Inc., a leading provider of optical transceivers for fiber to the home and telecom networks, today announced the availability of the industry’s first 6 Gigabit module in SFP+ form factor for applications in 3/4G wireless backhaul networks supporting Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) and Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) standards.

26 Mar 2010

Mitsubishi Installs 62kW PV System at Toyo Suisan's Factory in Japan

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced today that it has completed installation of a 62 kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) system at Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.'s Kanto Factory in Tatebayashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

26 Mar 2010

World's First Dual-Rate Burst-Mode Optical Transceiver from Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it has developed the world's first dual-rate burst-mode optical transceiver that enables the coexistence of GE-PON and 10G-EPON, which is used in optical line terminals.

26 Mar 2010

NREL Collaborates with 3M to Develop New Solar Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced a series of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with 3M, the St. Paul, Minn.-based technology company.

26 Mar 2010

ASU Students Build Video-Capable UAV for Security Applications

Students in ASU's College of Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic campus are building more than toys for their capstone projects.

26 Mar 2010

LROC Images Help Researchers to Locate Soviet Union Spacecraft

ASU and Johns Hopkins University researchers have located the spacecraft from Soviet Union lunar sample return missions with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) images.

26 Mar 2010

Samsung and Tessera Sign Licensing Agreement for Face Tracking Solution

Tessera Technologies, Inc. announced today that Samsung Electronics has licensed Tessera's FotoNation(R) FaceTracker solution, which provides high-performance face detection and tracking capabilities.

26 Mar 2010

New Mi Macro Imaging Station from Nikon Simplifies Pathologists Work

Nikon Instruments, Inc. today announced its newest product in the digital pathology market, the Mi macro imaging grossing station.

26 Mar 2010

New EZ-Bend Bundled MDU Optical Cable from OFS can Save 60% Installation Time

OFS, designer, manufacturer and supplier of leading edge fiber optic network products, today announced it has made available the EZ-Bend® Bundled MDU Cabling System that helps speed low-cost deployment of fiber to multi-dwelling units (MDUs).

26 Mar 2010

OFS Releases Research Report on Transmission Fiber at OFC/ NFOEC 2010

OFS, designer, manufacturer and supplier of leading edge fiber optic network products, today published ground breaking research on various designs for next-generation transmission fiber for coherent optical communications at OFC/ NFOEC 2010.

26 Mar 2010