SunPower Closes $265 Million Acquisition of PowerLight Corp.
ENERGY RESOURCE-11 January 2007-SunPower Closes $265 Million Acquisition of PowerLight Corp.(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com SunPower Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of solar cells and solar panels, has closed on its acquisition of PowerLight Corp., a privately owned solar power systems provider based in Berkeley, Calif.The PowerLight acquisition...

Director index.
Abbott, David, Multi-Color Corp. Bogus, Donald, Olin Corp. Boystock, Roy, Morgan Stanley Brennan, Charles III, Rogers Corp. Brestle, Daniel, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Brown, John, St. Jude Medical Inc. Brown, Julia, Tanox Inc. Burns, Patrick,...

Blue light-emitting diodes developed on silicon substrate.
Shimei Semiconductor Co Ltd, Japan, has developed a method for the fabrication of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on silicon, instead of sapphire. Blue light is generated using gallium nitride (GaN), and fabricating a crystal layer of this material on silicon is difficult due to differences in thermal...

Japanese industrial output sags.
TOKYO, Oct. 30 (AFP) -- Japanese industrial output flagged in September, the government said Monday, reinforcing the view that economic growth has peaked and dampening expectations of a near-term interest rate rise. Industrial production fell 0.7 percent from August mainly on weaker demand for cars, auto parts...

Benchmark media systems DAC 1.
Several reviews in this issue discuss DAC implementations in DVD players. In a similar vein, this column is a circuit-centric follow-up to the review of the DAC 1 in issue 102, with observations based upon the DAC manufacturer's data sheet and Audio Precision data provided by Benchmark. ...

Company index.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Advocat Inc. Albertson's Inc. Alcoa Inc. American Locker Group Inc. Arotech Corp. Beazer Homes USA Inc. BlackRock Inc. Bluefly Inc. Bombay Company Inc. Buckeye Technologies...

Durable, flexible contactless smart card.
HID Corporation has expanded its iClass[R] smart card family with the iClass Clamshell Card. This card is constructed of an ABS shell and PVC cover label that is flexible and resistant to cracking and breaking. It can be custom printed using most direct image printers, offering convenient on-site photo...

Success in medical devices is a tribute to Cuban ingenuity.
Necessity is the mother of invention--an axiom particularly evident in Cuba, where 1957 Chevys share the road with bicycles powered by washing-machine motors. It's known as inventando (inventing) --a seemingly indigenous trait that permeates all walks of Cuban society. "We lack many things because of our limited...

Saint-Gobain to sell ceramics for chip-making equipment.
A special conductive ceramic suitable for fabricating parts for semiconductor manufacturing is to be sold in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, after Saint-Gobain, the French glass giant, announced plans to market its novel product there. The conductive ceramic material was developed by Saint-Gobain's unit in the USA...

Kyocera's bendable sapphire sheet has strength, transparency.
Kyocera Corp, Japan, has developed a bendable sapphire sheet that demonstrates excellent strength and transparency--a rare combination of qualities in a bendable material. To make the bendable sheet, Kyocera started with single-crystal sapphire and polished it down to a thickness of just 60 mm. The company says...