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Toptica Photonics has opened an office for sales, marketing and services in Japan. Located in Fuchu, Tokyo, the office began operations on 1 September.
James Giacobazzi has been made the new president of Deposition Sciences (DSI). Giacobazzi has more than 15 years of executive management experience in technology companies.
Artemis Optical, a manufacturer of optical filters, has secured a £230,000 grant from the UK government for high-tech equipment. The investment is set to create 24 new full-time-equivalent jobs, almost doubling the current workforce of 29.
Pro-Lite Technology has opened for business in Spain and Portugal with the creation of Pro-Lite Technology Iberia. Pro-Lite Iberia is located in Barcelona and will be managed by Luz Ruiz, president of the Spanish Light Technologies Cluster (SECPhO) and a board member of the Spanish Applied Spectroscopy Royal Society.
Photonic Solutions is now a distributor of Quantel Laser products in the UK. Photonic Solutions will offer sales and service for all of Quantel’s product lines including pulsed YAG, DPSS, fibre and diode lasers.
German laser specialist Omicron, has expanded its distribution in Australia. Scitech Pty, based in Melbourne, now supplies the Omicron product range.
Imec thin-film tech research awarded €3.5 million
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wo scientists from European nanoelectronics centre Imec have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) grants totalling €3.5 million for studies in thin film technology. Bart Vermang will receive €2 million over five years to apply techniques from silicon solar cell processing to modify thin-film solar cells, improving their efficiency, cost and stability. In addition, Kris Myny received €1.5 million to develop thin-film transistor technology. Vermang’s research is targeting CIGS(e) solar cells. These are efficient, but still
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have stability and reliability issues. Vermang proposes to modify the design of these solar cells by implementing advanced surface techniques, introducing structures and layers also used in silicon solar technology. This involves adding nanostructures to capture more light in the cell’s active layers. Vermang’s research should lead to cells with conversion efficiencies between 23 and 26 per cent. Myny is looking to introduce design
innovations of unipolar n-type transistor circuits based on amorphous indium- gallium-zinc-oxide as a semiconductor.
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