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One More Caesium Fountain Clock is Added for Coordinated Universal Time

The world's best caesium atomic clocks control Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale on which the time zones used in everyday life are based. But also in navigation (GPS), astronomy, telecommunications, geodesy and physical fundamental research, accurate timing is of essential importance.

22 Dec 2009

Rubicon Updates on its Production Capacity Expansion Plan

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today released additional details related to the Company’s two year capacity expansion plan which was outlined on its third quarter earnings conference call last month.

22 Dec 2009

GigOptix Granted Funding for Development of Integrated Photonic Transceiver

GigOptix Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX) today announced that, as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations bill which was passed by the House of Representatives on December 15th and approved by the Senate on December 19th, the company was approved to receive $4.5 million in funding towards the development of an Integrated Photonic Transceiver, to be kicked off in the first quarter of 2010, and fully deployed through 2010.

22 Dec 2009

Himfr.com Evaluates LG BL20e Phone That Has 5-megapixel Camera with German Schneider Lens Optics

Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, evaluates the LG BL20e.

22 Dec 2009

Caltech Scientists Propose Paradigm to Study Quantum Behavior in Small Mechanical Systems

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.

22 Dec 2009

Engineers Create New Lens That Enhances Radar Systems Capabilities

Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems

21 Dec 2009

Engineers Develop Sensor That Detects and Measures Single Particles

A sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

19 Dec 2009

Physicist Finds THz Radiation Can Penetrate Through Opaque Dry Materials

"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretical groundwork to make the concept a reality. In addition to being more revealing than X-rays in some situations, T-rays do not have the cumulative possible harmful effects.

19 Dec 2009

Baker Consulting to Assist Vivakor in Business Development

Vivakor, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VIVK) has signed a Business Development agreement with Baker Consulting out of Walnut Creek, California and its affiliate group, Kyouko Group, Inc. out of South Florida. Baker Consulting has been retained by Vivakor to assist with business development, financing and assisting the company with its recently reported acquisition strategy.

18 Dec 2009

Annual Research Report Released on MEMS Industry

The advent of micro-technology has revolutionized the electronics industry so much so that miniaturization has now become a cue word across the globe. Further, the role played by micro-technology is enormous and sensors, as an offshoot of this know-how, are used in most of the industrial electronic applications.

18 Dec 2009