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Technology Fund and Participatiemaatschappij Oost Nederland (East-Netherlands Holding Com- pany). SolMateS will use the investment to accelerate product development and international expansion for its unique production system.

One product, the PiezoFlare 1200 is a revolutionary manufacturing technology to produce chips with precise actuation functionality. It is an automated deposition system for PZT thin films on 6“ or 8“ wafers, based on pulsed laser deposition and offers high-yield piezo performance and flexibility for cu- stomized PZT compositions. The technology enables, for the first time, high volume reliable production capability for PZT thin film deposition.

“The international demand for a machine like the PiezoFlare 1200 is exceeding our expectations”, Sol- MateS CEO Arjen Janssens states. “We are pleased our investors share our visions and with their help we will be able to accelerate our growth and meet current and future market needs”. http://www.solmates.nl

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pire Corporation (NASDAQ: SPIR) reported revenues from continuing operations for the first-

quarter ended March 31, 2011 of $18.4 million, a 2% decrease from $18.9 million for the same quarter of 2010. Net loss for the first-quarter of 2011 was $2.0 million, or $0.24 per share compared with a net loss of $0.7 million or $0.08 per share for the first- quarter of 2010.

The net loss for the first-quarter of 2010 includes a net loss of $87 thousand or $0.01 per share from the Company‘s Medical Products business unit, which was sold in December 2009 and was classified as dis-

continued operations. As of March 31, 2011, Spire had $5.7 million in cash and cash equivalents. http://www.SpireCorp.com

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TMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has introduced a new generation of geo-magnetic modules. The

ultra-low-power device addresses advanced navigati- on and location-based services in portable consumer applications by integrating high-resolution three-axis sensing of linear and magnetic motion in a 5 x 5 x 1mm package. http://www.st.com

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niversal Display Corporation (NASDAQ: PANL), enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting technology and mate-

rials, unveiled a novel, single-layer encapsulation technology for plastic substrate systems and thin- film devices, including rigid and flexible OLED dis- plays and lighting panels. The company announced the advances at the Society of Vacuum Coaters Tech- nology Conference at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on the Riverwalk in Chicago, IL, being held April 16-21, 2011.

Details of the new thin-film encapsulation technology were delivered by Dr. Ruiqing Ma, Department Ma- nager, Flexible OLED Displays, at Universal Display, in a paper titled “Technical Gap Analysis of Vacuum Coated Materials for Flexible OLED Display and Lighting Applications.” Developed in collaboration with research partner Princeton University, Univer- sal Display’s single, hybrid organic-inorganic layer approach has been demonstrated successfully as an encapsulant for flexible and rigid OLED devices.

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