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Asian Customer Places Order for Mycronic’s Prexision Series Mask Writer

Mycronic AB (publ), has received an order for a mask writer from the Prexision series for display applications from a customer in Asia. The system is scheduled to be delivered during the first half of 2017.

20 Jan 2016

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes DRS Technologies’ Mid-Infrared, Photon-Counting Detector

Based on its recent analysis of the photon-counting detectors market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes DRS Technologies, Inc. with the 2015 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. DRS's mid-infrared, photon-counting detector not only highlights the company's innovative excellence, but also asserts its ability to excel over the competition by addressing unmet customer needs. In addition to its large-scale deployment in the defense industry, its solutions significant contribution to data encryption, information technology, security, surface topology measurement, and greenhouse gas detection applications can immensely benefit commercial users.

19 Jan 2016

Tekes Funds Joint Project on Optical Measurement in Finland

Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, Tekes is funding so far the biggest joint project on optical measurement in Finland. The research parties are Valmet Automation, VTT and Tampere University of Technology with several small and medium size companies.

18 Jan 2016

USPTO Grants Universal Display US Patent for New Family of Phosphorescent Emitters

Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its Universal PHOLED® technology and materials, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Universal Display its 2,000th patent, U.S. Patent No. 9,231,218 (the '218 Patent) for a new family of “Phosphorescent Emitters”.

18 Jan 2016

Credo Unveils New Chip Solution for Next-Generation Optical Networking Applications

Credo Semiconductor, a global innovation leader in Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) technology, today announced it is entering the chip market with a sub 1 Watt multiplexer (MUX)/retimer device that leverages the company's unique SerDes architecture and low-cost analog technology to enable 100G optical modules with 50G per lambda throughput. The Credo® CMX12550 MUX, sampling now, supports four bidirectional lanes running at 25Gbps with NRZ signaling and 2 bidirectional lanes running at 50Gbps with PAM-4 signaling.

13 Jan 2016

Innovative Phononic Filter Holds Potential to Better Detect Radar and Communications Frequencies

A unique filtering technology that combines light and sound waves on a single chip is expected to better detect radar and communications frequencies.

13 Jan 2016

Panasonic Announces New Telephoto Lens for LUMIX G Range Cameras at CES 2016

Panasonic announced today at CES 2016 a new telephoto lens for its LUMIX G range of Micro Four Thirds System cameras – the LEICA DG VARIO-ELMAR 100-400mm F4.0-6.3 ASPH. Telephoto-Zoom (H-RS100400) with Power Optical Image Stabilization (O.I.S.).

7 Jan 2016

HumanEyes Technologies Creates Breakthrough Portable 360° 3D Vuze Camera

HumanEyes Technologies, a leader in photographic 3D, animated content and lenticular graphic arts has unveiled VUZE, the world's first consumer, portable 3600 3D VR camera and dedicated software studio that is set to bring immersive content creation to the masses.

6 Jan 2016

NETGEAR to Highlight Award-Winning 1080p HD Arlo Security Camera Family at CES 2016

NETGEAR®, Inc., a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, is now shipping its new Arlo™ Q 1080p HD Security Camera with Audio (VMC3040) to stores and other retail channels.

6 Jan 2016

Heptagon to Demonstrate TARO Time-of-Flight 3DRanger Smart Camera at CES 2016

Heptagon introduces TARO, a Time-of-Flight (ToF) 3DRanger™ Smart Camera for fast, 3D depth sensing applications up to several meters. TARO is an industry-first complete solution that combines a 3D ToF Camera, on-board algorithms and software, greatly simplifying development of standalone products or integration into existing customer systems.

5 Jan 2016