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U.S. Army Awards Boston Micromachines Phase II STTR To Build Device To Prevent Friendly Fire

Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, today announced that it has been selected by the United States Army for a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) award through the Department of Defense.

27 Nov 2007

Johns Hopkins Installs Most Powerful X-Ray Imaging Machine in its Class

The first 320-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner in North America, the most powerful X-ray imaging machine in its class, has been installed and is in operation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

27 Nov 2007

Irvine Sensors Plans to Jointly Pursue UAS Business Opportunities

Irvine Sensors Corporation today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA") memorializing a teaming arrangement with Applied Research Associates, Inc., a diversified product and technical services company.

27 Nov 2007

JDSU Announces BKtel Components 2007 Distributor of the Year

JDSU today announced that it has named BKtel Components, a leading distributor of fibre optic components and subsystems, as 2007 Distributor of the Year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. This is the second year in a row that JDSU has recognized BKtel for driving sales of JDSU optical communication products in the region.

27 Nov 2007

Laser Therapy Clinics Joining Forces to Expand Health and Cosmetic Services Nationwide

Los Angeles, California based clinics, Aventi Hair Therapy and Freedom Laser Therapy, are joining forces to create a unique partnership for their nationwide licensing expansion of their health & cosmetic services.

27 Nov 2007

Latest High-Resolution Machine Micro Lenses From Moritex

The new HR65D-VI series of Machine Micro Lenses (MML's) from Moritex has been designed for high-resolution discrete part inspection in semiconductor manufacturing operations including die bonding, flip chip bonding, chip on glass and chip on film machining.

27 Nov 2007

UV Laser for Drilling and Micromachining Applications

The new AVIA 355-7 from Coherent, Inc. is a Q-switched, frequency-tripled, solid-state laser delivering over 7 Watts of average power at 355 nm, in a package designed to maximize reliability for a minimum cost of ownership. The highest average power is achieved at repetition rates near 60 kHz, but the laser can be operated at pulse rates as high as 100 kHz, enabling very high throughput micromachining processes.

26 Nov 2007

Competitive Technologies Signs Joined Agreement for Solar Panel Technology

Competitive Technologies, Inc. and Articulated Technologies, LLC today announced that they have signed an agreement for CTT to license and commercialize Articulated's patented organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology for adaptation to solar power. The agreement provides for revenue sharing between CTT and Articulated of royalty and licensing payments.

26 Nov 2007

Recon Optical Awarded Contract from Royal Thai Air Force

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) awarded Recon Optical a contract to supply its CA-295 high-altitude, dual spectral band, digital reconnaissance camera for installation in a RTAF aircraft. The contract also includes a digital display system, field service engineering and logistics support.

26 Nov 2007

Australian Scientists Create World's Most Accurate Ruler

In a paper published in Nature today, Griffith Centre for Quantum Dynamics researchers reveal a technique that, for the first time, measures lengths as accurately as the laws of physics allow.

26 Nov 2007

New Radiation Source Could Improve Cancer Detection and Border Security

Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of electromagnetic radiation, may reshape not only airport screening procedures but also medical imaging practices.

26 Nov 2007

CRi Announces Next Generation in Vivo Optical Imaging Systems

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) announces the launch of Maestro 2 optical imaging systems in North America. The Maestro 2 received widespread acclaim at the both the recent Society of Molecular Imaging/Academy of Molecular Imaging joint conference for in vivo imaging, and at the Stanford University Small Animal Imaging Workshop as well.

26 Nov 2007

Moths Adopted to Create Industrial Lens for Low Light Environment

When moths fly at night, their eyes need to capture all the light available. To do this, certain species have evolved nanoscopic structures on the surface of their eyes which allow almost no light to reflect off the surface and hence to escape.

26 Nov 2007

Alphion Corporation Announces Alliance with Distribution Company

Alphion Corporation, a privately held company that develops, manufactures and markets communication systems, sub-systems, and integrated photonic components based on its proprietary QLight® technology, announced today its alliance with ITI Limited, India for the manufacture and distribution of its family of GPON products.

26 Nov 2007

DESY Celebrates New Source of Especially Brilliant X-ray Light

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Research Minister Dr. Annette Schavan and Hamburg s First Mayor Ole von Beust visited the Helmholtz research centre DESY. Its new light source PETRA III is due to be completed in 2009.

26 Nov 2007