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EMCORE Corporation Receives Follow-on Order from Concentration Solar la Mancha

EMCORE Corporation a leading provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber-optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, announced today that it has been awarded a $4.6 million follow-on production order for solar cell receiver assemblies from Concentration Solar la Mancha of Manzanares (Ciudad Real), Spain.

2 Apr 2008

Solar Flares Get Much Hotter When They Stay Focused

A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused."

2 Apr 2008

New Hybrid Contact Lens for People Over 40

SynergEyes, Inc. has launched its revolutionary new hybrid contact lens specifically designed for people over 40 dealing with a vision condition known as presbyopia. The "hybrid" design of the SynergEyes(R) Multifocal bonds a "hard" and "soft" contact lens together resulting in a one-of-a kind vision correction option that provides crisp, clear vision at both near and in the distance in a comfortable, healthy contact lens.

2 Apr 2008

ADTRAN Announces Addition of Gigabit Passive Optical Network Technology to Total Access 5000

ADTRAN®, Inc. today announced the addition of Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology to the Total Access® 5000 Ethernet Multi-service Access and Aggregation Platform.

2 Apr 2008

M-Com Selects Veeco MOCVD Tool for Production of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that Millenium Communication Co. Ltd. (M-Com) of Hsinchu, Taiwan has ordered a TurboDisc(R) E450(TM) arsenic phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of high-efficiency III-V compound multi-junction solar cells.

From Veeco 2 Apr 2008

Enabling Ultra High Capacity Data to Be Transmitted to the Other Side of the Planet

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. announced it is the world's first to achieve all optically regenerated transmission, which enables unlimited transmission of 160Gbps optical signals with single wavelength.

2 Apr 2008

Panels Provide Electrical Power for GLAST

Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on Thursday, March 20, noted that GLAST's twin solar panels have been attached. The panels will provide electrical power for GLAST after its launch into earth orbit.

2 Apr 2008

The World's Largest LED and Free-Hanging Chandelier

The World's Largest LED and Free-Hanging Chandelier will be illuminated by Meyda Lighting on Wednesday, April 2nd, at 6 PM, at the Stanley Center for the Arts in Utica, New York.

1 Apr 2008

NEC Announces New 7.0-inch Amorphous-Silicon TFT Liquid Crystal Display

NEC LCD Technologies, together with its sales and marketing channels in the Americas and Europe, NEC Electronics America and NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, today introduced a new 7.0-inch (18 centimeters diagonal) amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) module, part number NL8048BC19-02, with wide video graphics array (WVGA) resolution.

1 Apr 2008

LIGHTimes Announces the Return of the Blue LED Conference

CompoundSemi Online and Solid State Lighting Net, publishers of the LED industry supply chain news source, LIGHTimes Online, have announced the return of the "Blue" LED conference to Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 7-8, 2008.

1 Apr 2008

Lighting Designers Enhances the Magnificence of the New Poly Plaza

Beijing has become a hot spot for avant-garde architecture as the world pays more attention to the city's building boom. Many of the world's great architects have bold structures sprouting all over the city, with such descriptive nicknames as the bird's nest, twisted doughnut and eggshell.

1 Apr 2008

Agilent Technologies Acquires Developer of Microscopy Products for Life Sciences

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of TILL Photonics GmbH, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of optical, fluorescence microscopy products for life sciences. Financial details were not disclosed.

1 Apr 2008

Ascent Solar Sign Cooperative Development Agreement wirh Solar Cell Developer

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a definitive cooperation agreement with ICP Solar Technologies Inc. Pursuant to the agreement, Ascent Solar will provide ICP Solar with thin-firm photovoltaic (PV) material from Ascent Solar's existing 1.5 MW production line in 2008 and 2009, during which time ICP Solar will develop, test, and integrate Ascent Solar's PV materials into ICP Solar's portable power and other electronic integrated PV products.

1 Apr 2008

MyCall Converged Communications Brings IP-Based Voice Services to Consumers

Comverse, the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication and billing services, today announced that Connexion Technologies, a leading US fiber-optic amenity company, has launched Comverse's MyCall Converged Communications to help telecommunications companies serve residential customers with high-quality IP-based voice services over Connexion's Fiber to the Home (FTTH) networks.

1 Apr 2008

New Advanced Image Processing Feature Improves Diagnosis with Increased Visibility

At this year's American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in Chicago, March 30 - April 1, 2008 (Booth # 8001), Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. will be showcasing its Advanced Image Processing (AIP) technology for its Infinix(TM) X-ray product line.

1 Apr 2008