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Air Products to Supply Related Gas Needs for New Thin-film photovoltaic Module Production Facility

Air Products today announced it has signed an agreement with Signet Solar Inc. to supply turnkey installation of gas delivery systems and services and related gas needs for a new, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module production facility in Mochau, Germany. The long-term agreement includes the supply of hydrogen, helium, nitrogen and argon, as well as specialty gases such as silane, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and dopant gases. The new plant will be onstream in the summer of 2008.

16 Jan 2008

Licensing Agreement Enables Nemotek to Offer Full Range of Cost-Efficient Camera Solutions

Tessera Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, today announced that it has licensed its OptiML™ Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) technology and SHELLCASE® Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) solutions to Nemotek S.A. The combination of these consumer optics technologies enables Nemotek to offer a full range of cost-efficient camera solutions from wafer-level packaging of image sensors and wafer-level lenses to fully-integrated camera modules.

16 Jan 2008

FutureFLEX Air-blown Fiber Recognized for Outstanding Innovation

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named Sumitomo’s FutureFLEX® Air-blown Fiber® as a recipient of its 2007 Product of the Year Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

16 Jan 2008

RIO Expanding Fiber Optic Sensor Market Portfolio

RIO today announced product availability of a narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise laser, housed in an industry-standard 14-pin butterfly package, specifically designed for fiber optic sensing applications.

16 Jan 2008

Nano Photovoltaics Team Demonstrates Scalable Silicon Nanowire Based Solar Cell

GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced that scientists on their Nano Photovoltaics (PV) team have demonstrated a scalable silicon nanowire-based solar cell, which has the potential to achieve up to 18% efficiency and be produced at a dramatically lower cost than conventional solar cells. This demonstration represents a promising development in the effort to make PV systems more economically viable for consumers.

16 Jan 2008

Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

Energy Program Focusing on Novel Photovoltaic Materials and Solar Power Plants

MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership. The centerpiece of this collaboration will be a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants.

15 Jan 2008

40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernets Will Result in $4.3 Billion by 2016

The IEEE's efforts to create 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernets will result in $4.3 billion in annual revenues by 2016, according to a new report from CIR, an industry analyst firm based here.

15 Jan 2008

IMEC Further improves Source-Code for Scalable Video Decoding

IMEC has further improved its source-code for standard-compliant Scalable Video Decoding (SVC = H.264 extension), now performing 20 times faster and using only a tenth of the memory footprint compared to the SVC standard reference code.

From imec Inc. 15 Jan 2008

PennWell Officially Launches its Latest Venture

Looking to capitalize on the rapidly growing market for optical technologies and instrumentation in the life sciences, PennWell Corporation has officially launched its latest venture, BioOptics World. The new magazine and web site are now live and available at www.bioopticsworld.com.

15 Jan 2008

Intense Enters China Market

Intense Ltd., developer of next generation lasers, has signed a distribution agreement with A&P Instruments, a leading OEM distributor of lasers and instrumentation in China.

15 Jan 2008

ColorChip Announces the Release of Triplexer Transceivers for FTTH Market

ColorChip, a leading developer and provider of fiber optics components based on PLC technology, announced today the release of a GEPON (EPON) PX10 Triplexer transceivers for the FTTH market.

15 Jan 2008

ColorChip Releases Meteor II GPON Diplexer Transceiver for FTTH Market

ColorChip, a leading developer and provider of fiber optics components based on PLC technology, announced today the release of the Meteor II GPON Class A+ diplexer transceiver for the FTTH market

15 Jan 2008

3DIcon Files Patent for Virtual Moving Screen

3DIcon Corporation, a development-stage technology company, announced today that its research team at the University of Oklahoma, working under a sponsored research agreement (SRA), has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describing a virtual moving screen for rendering three-dimensional (3D) images.

15 Jan 2008

MESSENGER Spacecraft Makes its First Flyby of Mercury

A University of Michigan space instrument will take the first direct measurements of the planet Mercury's wispy atmosphere and space environment on Jan. 14, when NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft does its initial flyby of the closest world to the sun.

15 Jan 2008