At the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) in Anaheim (19-21 March), optical solution provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (SEI) introduced its next generation of active optical cables ...
Tags: Sumitomo Electric, Coherent Communications, Electronics
Nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has announced the launch of its fully integrated silicon photonics platform through a cost-sharing multi-project wafer (MPW) service via ePIXfab, the EU-funded silicon photonics ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Nanoelectronics, optical transceivers
An aid to selecting a microcontroller with high-resolution analogue/digital converters for measurement systems and metering designs by Ralf Hickl The quality of analogue peripherals on microcontrollers has risen constantly. It allows for ...
Tags: microcontroller, measurement systems, switching solutions
Fabless semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK has released details of test results that demonstrate how its envelope tracking (ET) technology can unlocks the potential of RF CMOS power amplifiers (PAs) for high-end 3G and 4G ...
Optical component, module and subsystem maker Oclaro of San Jose, CA, USA has announced financial results for its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012), which includes the first full quarter of operating results from Opnext ...
Tags: Optical component, interleaver product, communication market
Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today. ...
Priaxon has signed research collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to develop small molecule modulators for various protein-protein-interactions (PPIs). The collaboration will utilize Priaxon's small molecule drug discovery knowledge in ...
Tags: Priaxon, GSK, drug discovery, clinical development, therapeutic areas
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2012 (to end-June), optical communications and laser component, module and subsystem maker Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has reported a second consecutive quarter of growth as it continues to recover from ...
IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
Tags: IBM, Nanophotonics, Optical circuitry, silicon processors
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 ...
Tags: Tel Aviv, IWON, laser-based, data
OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada says that its US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT has produced an integrated laser device, achieving a key milestone in its Planar Optoelectronic Technology ...
Tags: OPEL, ODIS, POET, integrated laser device, VCL
IBM has invented a chip that combines photonics and silicon on a single 90 nanometer(nm)die,which is capable of transferring data at 25Gbps. The so-called silicon nanophotonics device(shown below)allows the integration of different ...
Tags: IBM, Silicon, Optical Nanotechnology
Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and SRI International have won a second grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health, for the joint development of an ...
Tags: Collaborative Drug Discovery, CDD, tuberculosis, TB
ProImmune has introduced B cell ELISpot assay as a service for the characterization of adaptive immune responses to infection, immune modulators, vaccines and therapeutic agents. B cell ELISpot enables the activity of ...
Merck and Ablynx have entered into a partnership to develop Nanobody candidates against a voltage gated ion channel and includes an option to elect a second target. As a part of the agreement, Ablynx will be responsible for the discovery ...
Tags: Nanobody Candidates, Nanobody technology, Ablynx Partner