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Palomar Microelectronics Specialists Will Be on Hand to Explain Wire Bonding for LED Packaging

Palomar Technologies, a world leader in providing solutions for microelectronic and optoelectronic packaging, and experts in precision wire bonding, gold wire bonding, and high accuracy component placement systems, announced today that it will exhibit at SMT Nuremberg from May 5 through 7.

29 Apr 2009

PPG Announces the Introduction of SOLARPHIRE AR New Glass

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced Solarphire AR (anti-reflective) glass, a new product engineered to maximize solar energy transmission to solar-collecting photovoltaic cells.

28 Apr 2009

Coherent Ships AVIA Laser to Solar Industry for Manufacture of High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) (Nasdaq: COHR) today announced it has shipped its 100th AVIA™ laser into the solar industry for use in the manufacture of high-efficiency solar cells and panels.

23 Apr 2009

Laser System Offers New Insight into the Formation of Our Early Solar System

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its New Wave Research (NWR) Division's UP213 laser ablation system helped enable the dating of ancient asteroids at the Department of Geology at the University of Maryland.

22 Apr 2009

Innovative Method for Controlling Light by Adopting Tuning Concepts from RF Technology

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

Using Colors of Light to Shrink the Size of Circuitry

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

16 Apr 2009

ITT Corp Receives Multi-Million Order for Night Vision Goggles from U.S. Army

ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has received a $121 million order from the U.S. Army Research, Development + Engineering Command Acquisition Center for the AN/PVS-14, ITT's most popular night vision goggle. This order represents the fifth largest ever received by the division.

16 Apr 2009

TS-Space Systems Launches New Range of Solar Simulators

TS-Space Systems has launched a new range of solar simulators that provide the worlds best spectral
match for AM0 and AM1.5.

16 Apr 2009

Turning Windows into Display with Just One Click

Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays (Hall 6, Stand F48).

15 Apr 2009

Indiana University and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center Recognizes Success of Ongoing Partnership

Indiana University and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center recognized the success of an ongoing partnership to enhance national security and advance research opportunities in life sciences, physics and other fields during a ceremony Monday (April 13) at IU's Cyclotron Facility.

15 Apr 2009

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