The total market value for electric unmanned aerial vehicles will reach over one Billion dollars by 2023 according to findings in the new IDTechEx report, Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) 2013-2023. This report includes hybrid and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
At the November workshop at Laser Zentrum Hannover called "Laser Processing of Glass Materials," more than 70 researchers, users, and manufacturers exchanged ideas on current developments and trends in glass processing using the laser as ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
You might not know what "lattice-matched heterojunctions" are, but if you stopped at a new stoplight, played a DVD or used a laser pointer, you've made use of technology pioneered by Jerry Woodall, distinguished professor of electrical and ...
Helium reserves on earth are limited, which could spur makers of MRI machines to look to the moon to fine reserves of this valuable noble gas. The dwindling supply of helium, which is also used in silicon wafer manufacturing, arc welding, ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has celebrated its 30th anniversary, after being co-founded by physicist Dr Holger Jürgensen (now honorary chairman of Aixtron’s Supervisory Board), Dr Meino Heyen and ...
Tags: LED, electronics
If rare earth metals become even more scarce than they are today, the medical device industry could be impacted in a significant way. But according to a paper published in PNAS (via Ars Technica), not much can be done to overcome a shortage ...
Tags: Rare Earth Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
At the Supercomputing 2013 (SC13) event in Denver, Colorado (18-21 November), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar, of Sunnyvale, CA, USA introduced a broadened portfolio of products for supercomputing ...
Tags: Finisar, broaden, optical, interconnect, portfolio, Supercomputing, 2013
Semiconductor laser manufacturer II-VI Laser Enterprise GmbH has shipped from its Zurich, Switzerland headquarters its 200 millionth vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) since 2008, consolidating its position as the leading volume ...
Tags: II-VI Laser, High-Power VCSEL
In what could be a game changer in the field of medical imaging, an Israeli firm known as RealView Imaging enables physicians to manipulate and analyze a patient's internal organ anatomy in midair in real time. A physician can, for ...
Lumenis has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approvals for its Array LaserLink pattern scanning device for multi-spot laser photocoagulation for use during ...
Tags: Lumenis, Laser Treatment
For the medical device industry, lasers are an invaluable technology. With myriad uses ranging from eyesight improvement to imaging, medical lasers can be found in almost all hospitals in the United States and other developed countries. ...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 28 September 2013), JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $429m, up 1.8% on $421.3m last quarter and 1.9% on $420.9m a year ago (and at the high end of the guidance range of $410-430m). ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has closed the sale of its Amplifier and Micro-Optics to engineering materials and optoelectronic components ...
Tags: Oclaro II-VI Inc, Electrical, Electronics
UK-based packaging technology provider TCL Packaging in partnership with Rofin-Baasel is introducing a new laser micro perforation and scribing system. The system comes with three scanning heads featuring Rofin two-axis technology and ...