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Pixelplus Announces Co-Development of 'System-on-a-Chip' Image Sensors

Pixelplus Co., Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company in Korea that designs, develops, and markets CMOS image sensors for various consumer electronics applications, today announced that the Company engages in the co-development of 'System-on-a-Chip' ("SoC") image sensors with Sharp Corporation of Japan ("Sharp").

6 Dec 2007

New Scientific Insights About Earth's Van Allen Belts

A new NASA project will use more than 40 high altitude balloons to return new scientific insights about Earth's Van Allen Belts. The type of radiation in the belts can be hazardous to astronauts, orbiting satellites and aircraft flying in high altitude polar routes.

6 Dec 2007

LumaSense Releases Lastest Fiber Optic Temperature Measurement Systems

LumaSense Technologies, a leading provider of temperature and gas sensing solutions to industrial, semiconductor, optoelectronics, medical, and electric power industries, today announced the release of its Luxtron 800 series fiber optic temperature measurement systems for temperature monitoring in harsh EMI, RF, MRI, microwave and high voltage environments.

6 Dec 2007

Ionatron Delivers Pulsed Laser System to US Navy

Ionatron, Inc., the Laser Guided Energy (LGE(R)) Company, today announced that it has delivered an advanced Ultra-Short Pulsed Laser "Transportable Demonstrator" system to its customer, the US Navy.

6 Dec 2007

CFE Leases 20,000 KM Fiber Optic Network to AXTEL

Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V., a fixed-line integrated telecommunications company, and Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), announced today the signing of an agreement through which CFE will lease its fiber optic network to AXTEL, thus increasing AXTEL's integrated services capabilities.

5 Dec 2007

DRDC Awards Obzerv to Supply Electro Optical Imaging System for Canadian Arctic Surveillance

Obzerv Technologies announces today that it has been awarded a $600k contract by DRDC-Valcartier (Defense Research and Development Canada) to supply an Electro Optical imaging system incorporating the ARGC-2400 for the Department of National Defense (DND) Technical Demonstration (TD) Project named Northern Watch.

5 Dec 2007

Highly Sophisticated Laser-Based Sensors to Study Biofuel Combustion

Let's say a fuel derived from biomass produces too much soot when it's burned in a combustion chamber designed for fossil fuels.

5 Dec 2007

NASA's GLAST Satellite Arrives for Testing Before Launch in 2008

NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington for its final round of testing.

5 Dec 2007

MTS Expands Next Generation Fiber-Optic Network to Newfoundland

MTS Allstream, one of Canada’s leading national communication solutions providers, recently announced that it has expanded its facility-based IP broadband network to Newfoundland. This expansion was the final leg of a coast-to-coast national fibre-optic network designed to provide MTS Allstream customers with cost effective, advanced IP-based products and services.

5 Dec 2007

FARO's All-New Laser ScanArm V3 with Enhanced Accuracy and Lighter in Weight

FARO Technologies, Inc., the world market leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser tracker sales, announced it has released an all-new Laser ScanArm V3. Among the enhancements, the new technology is 30-percent more accurate, 33-percent lighter in weight, and offers better performance in scanning dark or reflective surfaces than the Company's V2 models.

5 Dec 2007

Researchers Employ a Nanotechnology Atomic Force Microscope to Measure Cell Softness

A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists was able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the cells' softness.

5 Dec 2007

Agilent Enters Failure Analysis Probing Market

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Multiprobe Inc. today announced their intent to expand the companies' strategic partnership. As a result, Multiprobe's Multiscan Atomic Force Prober (AFP), the world's highest-resolution nanoprober, will be sold and supported by Agilent to customers in Asia and Japan.

4 Dec 2007

Veeco Introduces Latest 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Platform, the only metrology system available with the accuracy and precision required for non-destructive, high resolution three-dimensional (3D) measurements of critical 45nm and 32nm semiconductor features, with the speed to qualify as a true fab tool. Veeco's InSight 3DAFM was designed specifically to address Critical Dimension (CD), depth and chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) metrology in a production environment.

From Veeco 4 Dec 2007

Applied Materials Named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for Pioneering Work on Solar Modules

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it was named Green Energy Innovator of the Year for its pioneering work on the Applied SunFab Thin Film Line, at a gala presenting the prestigious 9th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards.

4 Dec 2007

German Research Foundation Establishes Ten New Collaborative Research Centres

On 1 January 2008 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish ten new Collaborative Research Centres, which will receive a total of 74.4 million euros in funding over the next four years, as well as a lump sum of 20 percent to cover indirect costs incurred by the projects.

4 Dec 2007