a $197 million loan guarantee from the US
Department of Energy that will support construction of three facilities that are expected to
produce approximately 400 MW of state-of-the-art thin-film photovoltaic modules annually. In
addition to enlarging its existing San Jose operation, the company will construct and operate
two new facilities in Portland, Ore. The plants
are anticipated to create 450 permanent jobs,
270 construction jobs and several hundred
additional supply chain jobs. The company
manufactures flexible thin-film solar cells
and modules.
Cree Inks Deal with Mouser, Acquires LED
Maker Semiconductor and electronic components distributor Mouser Electronics Inc., a subsidiary of TTI Inc., has signed a global distribution agreement with Cree Inc. of Durham, N.C.,
an LED lighting and silicon carbide power products provider. The agreement will enable lighting designers to find, compare, select and order
Cree’s LED and SiC products through the Mansfield, Texas, company, while Cree will gain access to Mouser’s design engineering marketing
program and its fulfillment operations. Mouser
offers customer support locations across multiple continents, with 42 country websites.
In other news, Cree has acquired LED out-
door lighting company Ruud Lighting Inc. for
$525 million. The addition of the latter com-
pany’s BetaLED product line allows Cree to in-
crease its leadership position in the LED industry
and to extend the adoption of energy-efficient
LED lighting worldwide. The purchase will pro-
vide increased access to the lighting market
through expanded sales channels, and operat-
ing leverage from increased economies of scale.
Ruud Lighting, based in Racine, Wis., will oper-
ate as a subsidiary of Cree’s lighting business.
Spectra-Physics Gets Imaging Patent
Spectra-Physics of Santa Clara, Calif., a division of
Newport Corp., has announced the issuance
of US patent No. 7,962,046 for its DeepSee
multiphoton imaging technology. Used in the
Mai Tai DeepSee and the InSight DeepSee
products, the technique enables automated,
deep 3-D imaging of live tissue in neuroscience,
cell biology and other biological applications.
Used in multiphoton imaging for automated
precompensation of ultrafast laser pulses for
optical dispersion in microscopes, the technology delivers short pulses and high peak power
to the sample, resulting in enhanced image
quality and deeper imaging penetration
into tissue in vivo.
StellarNet Marks 20 Years in Spectroscopy
StellarNet Inc. of Tampa, Fla., announced its
celebration of a 20-year milestone in the spectroscopy industry. Over the past two decades, it
has pioneered innovations such as the world’s
first miniature concave grating-based spectrometer and a portable laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy system. It has diversified its product
offerings with systems such as a full chemo-metric software package that works with its
fFASTTRACK
spectrometers in real time. The company has
added Titan Electro-Optics as its distributor in
China, with offices in Beijing, Shenzhen and
Shanghai.
Optical Design Awardees Announced
Synopsys Inc. of San Diego has chosen two University of Rochester doctoral candidates as winners
of the 2011 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical
Design Competition. Bin Ma was recognized for
his work on aspheric lens design using Synopsys’ Code V software in his paper, “Design of
Lithographic Lenses with Slope Constrained
Q-Polynomials.” Dustin Moore was recognized
for his work on a panoramic imaging system
using Code V software in his paper, “A High
Resolution Four-Pi Steradian Panoramic Video
System.” The annual competition was created in
2000 by Optical Research Associates, now the
Optical Solutions Group, at Synopsys.
Thermo Fisher Secures Phadia Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has acquired
Phadia of Uppsala, Sweden, a provider of blood
tests for the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of
allergies and autoimmune diseases. Phadia now
is part of Thermo Fisher’s Specialty Diagnostics
business. The company is expected to contribute
$0.07 to Thermo Fisher’s 2011 full-year adjusted earnings per share, an increase
of $0.01 over the original estimate. In addition,
it is expected to add $190 million to the US
company’s 2011 revenue results, about a 12%
growth in revenue over 2010.
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