High-power bursts of light from femtosecond system are being honed for new compact particle accelerators. An ultrafast laser system under development at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) in California has delivered ...
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Tel Aviv firm RiT is proposing laser-based office data networks for up to 10Gbit/s per user. Called IWON,data at up to 100Gbit/s is fed to a daisy-chain of ceiling(or wall)mounted units that beam data at up to 10Gbit/s to receivers around ...
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Boeing lands$16M laser weapon follow-up 08 Oct 2012 Defense contractor agrees follow-on contract with US Army Space and Missile Command for 10kW solid-state system. Boeing is to develop a truck-mounted 10kW laser weapon for the US Army. ...
Tags: laser weapons, US Army Space and Missile, 10kW solid-state system
Isofoton today announced it has obtained solar photovoltaic cells with 19.5% efficiency, over half a point more than its highest efficiency rates previously obtained through conventional manufacturing technologies. Isofoton has increased ...
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US-based Cretex Companies has purchased Spectralytics,a contract manufacturing provider of laser-based medical services,for an undisclosed sum. Spectralytics is involved in the production of stents,laser ablation,laser marking,and ...
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After several years as the last remaining maker of rear-projection TVs, Mitsubishi has finally told its dealers that it will no longer make the DLP sets, essentially ending the era of rear-projection television technology. The decision, ...
Tags: LCD, rear-projection televisions, screen size, CRT technology
SSL industry celebrates 50th birthday of visible LED light 10 Oct 2012 LEDs are ubiquitous now, but fifty years and a few days ago they were completely unheard of until General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr invented a visible red ...
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US Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives go-ahead for GE-Hitachi venture to build a first-of-a-kind facility. The General Electric/Hitachi venture Global Laser Enrichment(GLE)has received official assent to build what would become the ...
Second pillar of pan-European Extreme Light Infrastructure project to receive€180 M in structural funds. ELI:the first pillar The European Commission(EC)has approved€180 million in structural funding to support the ...
Picomole patent paves way for breath analysis 13 Sep 2012 The company's infrared system for detecting signs of medical conditions in exhaled breath will soon receive US patent approval. Breath test Picomole,a developer of ...
Contract manufacturing is a global business concept wherein an original equipment manufacturer outsources the production of a particular product to another company.For example,though Nokia manufactures mobile phones,it doesnâEUR(TM)t ...
4 September 2012 IPG Photonics acquires JPSA IPG Photonics Corporation of Oxford,MA,USA has acquired privately held New Hampshire,USA-based J.P.Sercel Associates Inc(JPSA),a supplier of UV excimer and diode pumped solid ...
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Software control Raydiance,the California-based developer of packaged femtosecond laser technology targeted at manufacturing and machining applications,has announced the completion of a round of growth financing worth$20 million. The ...
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JP Sercel Associates Inc(JPSA)of Manchester,NH,USA,which makes laser-based materials processing workstations for wafer processing and micromachining,has launched the IX-6100-MD for scribing and dicing metal layers such as Mo,Cu,Ni,Au,Ag and ...
Tags: JPSA, high-power LED die singulation, metal dicing system
Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
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