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Foxconn and UMC Join Hands with Samsung to Invest in LensVector

LensVector™, Inc., the leader in solid-state optical components for camera phones, laptops and other consumer electronics, today announced that Foxconn Technology Group and UMC have joined Samsung as investors in the company’s $30 million Series C financing round.

16 Feb 2010

Recent Technology Advances Enhance Aptina's HD Video-Enabled Mobile Product Portfolio

Aptina, the leading innovator of CMOS imaging technology, announced today that recent technology advances in addition to the recently released 14-megapixel 1080p60 MT9F011 have enhanced its portfolio of HD video enabled mobile products. This portfolio of products meets the needs of Aptina’s customers who are looking for best-in-class still and video CMOS imaging solutions to integrate into their mobile camera designs.

16 Feb 2010

New Trace Detector from Morpho Features Ion Trap Mobility Spectrometer

Hardened MobileTrace® detection system designed for extreme environmental conditions and frontline deployment

16 Feb 2010

Network of Telescopes Helps to Study Evolution of Stars

When scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put to work on other stars

16 Feb 2010

Clearview Signs Supply Agreement with Optical Components Provider Ignis

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD), a specialist in fiber management solutions for fiber to the premises (FTTp) deployments, and Ignis ASA, a leading international provider of optical components, announced today that they have signed a mutual supply agreement.

15 Feb 2010

ST's Protection and Signal-Termination Device Requires Less Number of Optical Transistors Than Conventional Terminations

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in protection ICs, has announced the world's first device combining field signal-termination and protection functions, enabling designers of industrial control and building-automation equipment to increase system performance and EMI robustness while simultaneously cutting power consumption, size, and heat dissipation.

15 Feb 2010

Using Gold Nanoparticles Scientists Convert Optical Radiation to Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit

15 Feb 2010

New Diamond Nanowire Device Ideal for Quantum Science and Technology Applications

A diamond-based nanowire device. Researchers used a top-down nanofabrication technique to embed color centers into a variety of machined structures

15 Feb 2010

Researchers Stack Photons Using Quantum Entanglement Technique

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light – photons, which can only exist while flying at an incredible speed and vanish if they touch anything.

15 Feb 2010

Using Laser Optical Trap, Researchers Observe Chemical Reactions Near Zero

Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be controlled using quantum mechanics, the peculiar rules of submicroscopic physics.

12 Feb 2010