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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Following the transaction, Pirelli will maintain an approximately 30% share in the new business, which will have annual revenue of about 80 million dollars. "This investment - Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman of Pirelli, said - is coherent with Pirelli's strategy to grow in photonics through integration with other companies in similar businesses. We strongly believe in the potential of this...
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The Boston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
PerkinElmer Inc., a life sciences and photonics company, boosted revenue thanks to a growing human and environmental health business during its fiscal 2008 second quarter. But net income dipped compared to 2007 due to increased expenses. (PKI)
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones. The innovation opens the door to a wide range of applications in photonics and communications. Harvard University has also filed...
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Nanotechnology News from Nanowerk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ocean Optics, a leader in miniature photonics, has just introduced a new line of video tutorials as a learning companion to its extensive range of spectrometers and spectroscopy software.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced a one-year agreement with the Mexican Ministry of Health, la Secretaría de Salud, to expand its newborn screening program across Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, PerkinElmer will provide instrumentation, reagents and screening expertise that will help the Ministry of Health screen for congenital...
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Textually (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A pixel that uses a pair of mirrors to block or transmit light could lead to displays that are faster, brighter, and more power efficient than liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Researchers at Microsoft Research who published their novel pixel design in Nature Photonics say that their design is also simpler and easier to fabricate, which should make it cheaper. LCDs corner half of the global TV...
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced a one-year agreement with the Mexican Ministry of Health, la Secretaría de Salud, to expand its newborn screening program across Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, PerkinElmer will provide instrumentation, reagents and screening expertise that will help the Ministry of [...]
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TV Snob (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Forget LCD and plasma displays--the real future of display technology may lay with "telescopic pixels". A report in Nature Photonics, compiled by researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington, says that telescopic pixel displays can outperform today's popular display...
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CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... than a liquid crystal display, or LCD, according to research reported yesterday in Nature Photonics … The design greatly increases the amount of backlight that reaches the screen. The researchers were able to get about 36 percent of the backlight out of a pixel, more than three times as much light as an LCD can deliver. But Microsoft senior research engineer Michael Sinclair says that through...
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alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... Coherent (COHR:NASDAQ). According to their press releases, Coherent is a world leader in providing photonics based solutions to the commercial and scientific research markets. For the non-technophiles reading this, they make lasers. Coherent's lasers service the following markets: microelectronics, materials processing, OEM components and instrumentation, scientific...
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TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... than a liquid crystal display, or LCD, according to research reported yesterday in Nature Photonics … The design greatly increases the amount of backlight that reaches the screen. The researchers were able to get about 36 percent of the backlight out of a pixel, more than three times as much light as an LCD can deliver. But Microsoft senior research engineer Michael Sinclair says that through...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... three months on both web sites.
Founded in 1966, Coherent, Inc. is a world leader in providing
photonics based solutions to the commercial and scientific research markets
and part of the Russell 2000. Please direct any questions to Leen Simonet,
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at 408-764-4161. For
more information about Coherent, visit the Company's web site at
.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... solutions leverage its expertise in high-power semiconductor,
solid-state and ultrafast lasers, photonics instrumentation, sub-micron
positioning systems, vibration isolation, optical subsystems and precision
automation to enhance the capabilities and productivity of its customers'
manufacturing, engineering and research applications. Newport is part of
the Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600...
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Arik's blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
NY/NJ Metro Area Compound Semiconductors Online (press release), TX - 26 minutes ago IPG Photonics Corporation announced that its German subsidiary, IPG Laser GmbH, that the BMW group in Munich has ordered multi-kilowatt, continuous wave ...
