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Seesmart Seeks Right Distributors to Sell LED Products Across the U.S.

Seesmart, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of solid-state lighting technology, announced today that it has limited openings in specific territories for United States Distribution of their innovative LED products.

16 Mar 2010

PureSpectrum's CFLs and Dimming Ballast to Undergo EPRI Testing Process

PureSpectrum is submitting its dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) and will submit its step dimming electronic ballast for linear fluorescent lighting for testing with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an independent non-profit organization which provides information and guidance for member utility companies which represent more than 90 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

16 Mar 2010

FBH Scientists Discuss Laser Technologies at Laser Optics Berlin Show

Due to their reliability, small size, high output power and high efficiency, semiconductor lasers are increasingly gaining market share in many laser applications.

16 Mar 2010

Litron Sets Open Door Policy in Laser Welding

It’s been the norm in the laser welding and job shop industry to keep “the process” a secret from the customer. To only tell them what they need to know and not let on about what goes on behind the scenes. Clients are then handed a bill and left to wonder what really happened with their parts, and what they’re paying for.

16 Mar 2010

Cole-Parmer Offers Portable, Versatile Handheld Microscopes

Imagine plugging a microscope into the USB port of your PC or laptop and viewing images with 10x to 200x or even 500x magnification. The latest models of handheld microscopes from Cole-Parmer offer just this portability, convenience, and versatility.

16 Mar 2010

CSMC Uses Soitec's SOI Substrates for Display Applications

The Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world's leading supplier of engineered substrates for the microelectronics industry, announced today that the company has entered into an agreement to supply silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates to CSMC Technologies Corporation ("CSMC"), a leading pure-play specialty analog foundry based in China.

16 Mar 2010

RF Micro Devices Manufactures First PV Cell Using GaAs Machinery

RF Micro Devices, Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced it has successfully manufactured the industry's first photovoltaic cell using high-volume six-inch gallium arsenide (GaAs) machinery.

16 Mar 2010

LUXEON c LED Reduces Users Operating Costs and Energy Consumption

Addressing the lighting industry’s need for smaller, more powerful, and long-lasting LEDs for applications like refrigerators, freezers, and washing machines, Philips Lumileds today is introducing LUXEON c, the company’s latest addition to its LUXEON power LED portfolio.

16 Mar 2010

CMD’s LuxGuard LED Devices to be Highlighted at EDN Seminar in Santa Clara

ON Semiconductor, a premier supplier of high performance, energy efficient silicon solutions for green electronics, will showcase California Micro Devices’ (CMD) innovative LuxGuard® family of turnkey solutions for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and thermal management for high power, high brightness light emitting diode (LED) lighting applications at EDN magazine’s Designing with LEDs Seminar and Workshop at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, on March 17 as a Silver Sponsor.

16 Mar 2010

Sinatis Europe and CNPV Solar Power Enter Sales Agreement

CNPV Solar Power SA, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules that designs, manufactures and supplies highly efficient and cost effective crystalline solar photovoltaic modules, today announced that it has entered into a long-term strategic partnership sales agreement with Sinatis Europe, a well-known French project development and distribution company.

16 Mar 2010

Two New Acquisitions Enhance China Sunergy's Position in Solar Market

China Sunergy Co., Ltd., a specialized solar cell manufacturer based in Nanjing, China, announced today an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of two related module manufacturers, CEEG (Shanghai) Solar Science & Technology Co., Ltd and CEEG (Nan Jing) New Energy Co., Ltd.

16 Mar 2010

Luxtera's 40G Optical Blazar Interconnects NOAA Data Center

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) selected Luxtera’s award-winning 40G Active Optical Cable (AOC), Blazar, to interconnect its multi-room data center.

16 Mar 2010

Forepi Acquires License to Manufacture Small Form-Factor LEDs with PhlatLight

Luminus Devices, developer and manufacturer of big-chip PhlatLight® LEDs, today announced a licensing agreement that enables Formosa Epitaxy (Forepi) to manufacture small and mid-power chip blue and green GaN LEDs on the PhlatLight platform.

16 Mar 2010

HRSC High-Resolution Camera Captures New Images of Phobos

Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission.

16 Mar 2010

New IJAGS Journal Covers Articles on Glass in Optics, Medicine and Other Applications

From cutting-edge photovoltaic power generation systems to substrates for repairing or even growing new human tissue, glass-based materials are playing an expanding role in the world's scientific and technical advances.

16 Mar 2010