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Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cells, Covered Interconnect Cells (CICs) and panels. For terrestrial applications, Emcore is adapting its high-efficiency GaAs solar cells for use in solar concentrator systems.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide.
Agilent Receives Global Award for Microwave Test Equipment
The Frost & Sullivan’s award recognizes the extent to which the product line meets customer demands and adds value for customers.
Agilent Technologies has been honored with the Frost & Sullivan’s “2010 Global Award for Product Line Strategy in the Microwave Test Equipment Market”.
The award is conferred on the company that has developed a comprehensive product line that addresses the breadth of the market it serves. The award recognizes the extent to which the product line meets customer demands and adds value for customers.
“Agilent’s product line forms an integral part of a design and test engineer’s tool kit for debugging and testing applications in a wide range of sectors that include the communications, semiconductor, aerospace/defense, automotive and computer industries,” says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst, Vijay Mathew. “The company has achieved success due to its sustained commitment to develop superior and competitive products.”
“We are honored to be the recipient of this award,” said Ron Nersesian, president of Agilent’s Electronic Measurement Group. “This is a technology marketplace challenged by tight cost, rapidly changing standards, and high customer expectations for product flexibility and scalability. Agilent’s broad microwave and RF product line
offers high value to customers with differentiated and highly competitive products.”
The following products were highlighted in the award:
* the Infiniium 90000 X-series oscilloscopes; * the V3500A handheld radio frequency (RF) power meter; * the N9923A FieldFox RF Vector Network Analyzer (VNA); * Agilent’s Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer (NVNA), based on Agilent’s PNA-X network analyzer technology; and * the PXA signal analyzer, the highest-performing member of the Agilent X-Series signal analyzers.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry. Additional information can be found at
www.awards.frost.com.
Agilent Technologies is a premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. The company’s 18,500 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $4.5 billion in fiscal 2009.
Expect Annual Growth of 30% in Mid-Infrared Laser Market
Strategies Unlimited new report says that new military and sensing applications will add sizeable and exciting opportunities to the mid infra-red laser market in the next few years.
Advancements in several new laser technologies are opening new opportunities in the part of the spectrum between telecom lasers and the nascent terahertz range, called the mid-infrared. This range is currently dominated by applications in materials
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