Laser Focus World articles from January 2006

Laser Focus World archives from January 2006

Happy New Year.(editor's desk)
January 1, 2006... This year brings a "photonics anniversary" of sorts. Ten years ago the emergence of semiconductor lasers initiated an extended period of growth for the laser industry. Worldwide sales of all types of lasers in 1995 were about $1.25 billion,...

Laser-frequency monitoring measures millimeter distances to picometer accuracy.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... A scientist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD) has pioneered a laser-based technique that can measure distances on the order of millimeters with picometer accuracy--equivalent to measuring the distance...

Whispering-gallery resonator has continuous modal spectrum.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optical resonators are typically cylindrical or spherical cavities into and out of which light, often from an optical fiber, is coupled via evanescent-wave coupling. They are potentially useful as high-Q cavities...

Rod-type fiber laser reaches new nanosecond pulse-power heights.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Engineers and scientists at Femlight (Talence, France) and the University of Jena (Jena, Germany) have created a rod-type fiber laser with a very large core and short length that overcomes the limits of conventional fiber lasers and...

Rotary-disk laser achieves highest Q-switched power.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Researchers at Sparkle Optics (Rolling Hills Estates, CA) have demonstrated what they are calling the highest-power Q-switched laser ever developed--72.8 W of Q-switched power at 50 kHz in 69-ns pulses in ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet...

Pixel-level analog-to-digital conversion results in 40 times less power.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Compared to the most power-efficient designs being proposed, scientists at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) have developed a CMOS image sensor with pixel-level analog-to-digital conversion capability that shows a 40-fold reduction in...

20-W CW power barrier surpassed for 975-nm diode-laser chip.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Researchers at Alfalight (Madison, WI) have demonstrated 22 W of continuous-wave (CW) power from a single (100-[micro]m)-stripe 975-nm-emitting diode-laser chip at a 25[degrees]C heat-sink temperature. This result demonstrated 47% higher power...

Time-lapse Hubble images track stellar jets.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Using highly resolved images from the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team has created the first moving pictures of a stellar jet. These massive streams of plasma spew from the poles of newborn stars, playing a critical yet poorly...

Electrically stimulated carbon nanotubes emit IR light.(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Researchers from IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY) and Duke University (Durham, NC) have produced bright IR electroluminescence at local electric fields in the junction between suspended and supported parts of a partially suspend ed...

PC waveguide mirror to change the direction of light by 135[degrees].(news breaks)
January 1, 2006... Cun-Zheng Ning and Natalia Malkova at NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA) have used a computer simulation to design 2-D photonic-crystal waveguides that change the direction of light by 135[degrees] (resulting in an acute angle of...

Plenoptic camera refocuses digitally.(DIGITAL IMAGING)
January 1, 2006... A digital handheld camera developed by researchers at Stanford University looks to all the world like an ordinary consumer camera, but has capabilities that are anything but ordinary. (1) For example, the image produced by the camera (or, more...

Nanocavity lasers may compete with VCSELs.(optoelectronics: world news)
January 1, 2006... Researchers at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) have published results obtained from photonic-crystal nanocavity laser arrays that may eventually compete with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for a range of applications...

Photonic-crystal fiber shifts ultrashort-pulse wavelengths.(NONLINEAR PHENOMENA)
January 1, 2006... When a femtosecond laser pulse is sent through a length of optical fiber, the output pulse is often very different from the input pulse. Intrinsically spectrally broad, an ultrafast pulse undergoes normal dispersion when traveling along the...

InGaAs photomixers generate and detect terahertz radiation.(TERAHERTZ OPTOELECTRONICS)
January 1, 2006... With contributions from the University of Leeds (Leeds, England) and the University of Manchester (Manchester, England), Researchers at TeraView (Cambridge, England) have demonstrated what they are calling the first alloptoelectronic...

Europe launches Photonics21.(PHOTONICS DEVELOPMENT)
January 1, 2006... More than 200 experts from 16 European member states and 120 companies gathered in Brussels in early December 2005 to launch the European technology platform called "Photonics21." Technology platforms play a major role in mobilizing...

Simple holes serve as glass-lens molds.(OPTICAL FABRICATION)
January 1, 2006... Glass molding has long been an alternative to traditional grinding and polishing for lens fabrication. For ex ample, aspheric glass illuminator (condensor) lenses both large and small can be made economically by molding, although their...

Nanoantenna captures plasmon-spectrum images.(NANOPHOTONIC IMAGING)
January 1, 2006... Conventional optical microscopy is based on the detection of photons emitted from an object. But scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH; Zurich, Switzerland), The Zuse Institute Berlin (Berlin, Germany), and the University...

Progress is made on zinc oxide emitters.(SEMICONDUCTOR SOURCES)
January 1, 2006... Zinc oxide materials have the potential to give GaN a run for its money as a material for visible and UV light sources. At the fall 2005 meeting of the Materials Research Society (Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2005; Boston, MA) researchers presented new...

VUV free-electron laser in operation at DESY.(FREE-ELECTRON LASERS)
January 1, 2006... Coherent radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and in the x-ray region will open the gate to exciting applications in fundamental research such as structural analysis of biological molecules, the study of light-matter interactions at...

Hybrid laser combines III-V gain with silicon waveguide.(OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATION)
January 1, 2006... Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have bonded nonsilicon semiconductor optical-gain layers directly to a silicon laser cavity to fabricate a hybrid alternative to silicon Raman lasers that is an order of magnitude...

Neural net classifies coral.(IMAGE PROCESSING)
January 1, 2006... Vision systems excel at locating or sorting man-made objects, which usually have sharp edges or predefined shapes that ease the requirements and up the success rates of image-processsing algorithms. Natural objects, on the other hand, tend to...

UV laser probes grains of Moon dust.(PLANETARY SCIENCE)
January 1, 2006... In the Dusty Plasma Laboratory at the National Space Science and Technology Center (Huntsville, AL), Mian Abbas (with colleague Paul Craven and doctoral student Dragana Tankosic) observes changes in charge and other characteristics of a...

Nanofabrication creates left-handed materials at optical wavelengths.(NEGATIVE REFRACTION)
January 1, 2006... The creation of an optical lens based on negative refraction, and thus capable of imaging features smaller than the light's wavelength, has been hampered because the contribution that natural materials make to total magnetic flux density when...

NIF hohlraum experiments yield first light.(INERTIAL FUSION)
January 1, 2006... Initial "hohlraum" experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA) have validated computer simulations and theoretical projections related to the plasma and x-ray environment...

Yb-doped waveguide lases near 1 [micro]m.(WAVEGUIDE LASERS)
January 1, 2006... For what they believe to be the first time, researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) and the Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy (Berlin, Germany) have demonstrated laser...

PhAST, LFW partner on Innovation Awards.(optoelectronic: world news)
January 1, 2006... The Photonic Applications, Systems, Technologies (PhAST) Conference and Laser Focus World are partnering for the 2006 PhAST/ Laser Focus World Innovation Awards Program, to be presented at the CLEO/QELS and PhAST Plenary Session on May 22. ...

Fiber lasers ignite the market.(laser: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Sales of fiber lasers leapt to new heights in 2005, according to the annual Laser Focus World market survey. The survey found that sales of fiber lasers in 2005 were up 53% over 2004 and are projected to continue growing aggressively into 2006...

Senate restores most of NIF funding.(laser: industry report)
January 1, 2006... The U.S. Senate has restored most of the funding for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, CA), after more than four months of uncertainty (see Optoelectronics Report, July 1,...

FLIR adds lasers to its portfolio.(laser: industry report)
January 1, 2006... To gain greater control over the development of the laser subassemblies used in many of its thermal imaging products, FLIR Systems (Wilsonville, OR) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the stock of Scientific Materials (Bozeman, MT)...

Acquisition improves European presence.(laser: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Nuvonyx (Bridgeton, MO) has acquired Thales Laser Diode (TLD; Paris, France), a provider of laser diodes to the marketplace for more than 15 years. As part of the acquisition strategy the TLD name will be changed to Nuvonyx Europe. "This...

High-brightness LED market thrives.(laser: industry report)
January 1, 2006... From 1995 through 2004, the high-brightness LED (HB LED) market exhibited a remarkable growth history, with an average annual growth rate of 46%, resulting in a market size of $3.7 billion in 2004. According to the November 2005 report...

Novaled.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Novaled (Dresden, Germany) raised $18 million in its second round of funding to commercialize its proprietary Pin OLED technology and materials...

Idemitsu Kosan Co.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and Sony have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop new OLED luminous materials...

nLight (Vancouver WA), a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, signed an exclusive agreement with Lastek Group of Companies.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... nLight (Vancouver WA), a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, signed an exclusive agreement with Lastek Group of Companies (Adelaide, South Australia) to distribute its products in Australia and New Zealand....

Laboratory for Laser Energetics.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... The University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics will receive $72.6 million in funding for current operations and construction of its new foul-beam extension facility, through a bill signed by President George W. Bush....

Lockheed Martin.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Lockheed Martin (Archbald, PA) was selected to develop, qualify, and produce the Paveway II Dual Mode Laser Guided Bomb (DMLGB), the next-generation precision-guided weapon system for the U.S. Navy. in a 2006 procurement contract worth $65...

WaveLight Laser Technologie (Erlangen, Germany) has taken a "significant" minority equity stake in Enfis.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... WaveLight Laser Technologie (Erlangen, Germany) has taken a "significant" minority equity stake in (Swansea Wales), a developer and manufacturer of high-power LEDs, to improve its position in health and cosmetic applications.

South African president inaugurates SALT.(optics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa, has inaugurated the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT; Sutherland, South Africa) at the South African Astronomical Observatory. "SALT was an initiative of South African astronomers that won support...

Lumera awarded polymer modulator contract.(optics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... The Pennsylvania State University Electro-Optics Center (EOC; Freeport, PA) has signed a contract with Lumera (Bothell, WA) for development of polymer-based electro-optic (EO) modulators for the detection of terahertz radiation. Lumera will...

Deformable mirrors to go into space.(optics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Boston Micromachines (Watertown, MA), a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive-optics systems, has been selected by NASA for a $600,000 Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a deformable...

IPCA to speed photonics commercialization.(optics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... A new international organization whose goal is to serve as an information and commercialization "portal" for the photonics industry made its official debut at the "Future of Light" meeting held at Boston University Photonics Center (Boston, MA)...

Axsys Technologies.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Axsys Technologies (Rocky Hill, CT) received a $3.8 million follow-on order from BAE Systems for infrared lenses for the US. Army Thermal Weapon Sight II program....

Archer OpTx.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Archer OpTx (Rowlett, TX). a manufacturer of high-precision custom and catalog lenses, has secured $4.7 million in private funding to expand its production capacity....

Ball Aerospace (Boulder, CO) engineers, under contract to Northrop Grumman Space Technology (Redondo Beach, CA), are scheduled to complete by year-end an optical testbed.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Ball Aerospace (Boulder, CO) engineers, under contract to Northrop Grumman Space Technology (Redondo Beach, CA), are scheduled to complete by year-end an optical testbed that will simulate the focusing characteristics of NASA's James Webb Space...

Janos Technology.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Janos Technology (Keene, NH), supplier of optical assemblies and infrared optics, has expanded its range of optical fabrication and testing services through the addition of a QED Technologies (Rochester, NY) subaperture stitching...

Schering, Philips partner in optical imaging.(imaging & detector: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Schering and Royal Philips Electronics (Berlin, Germany) have formed an alliance to research, develop, and commercialize medical equipment and associated contrast agents for optical imaging. "We are very excited to team up with a leader in...

Agilent acquires Molecular Imaging.(imaging & detector: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) has acquired privately held Molecular Imaging (Tempe, AZ), a developer and manufacturer of nanotechnology measurement and imaging tools. Financial details were not disclosed. Among other things, Molecular...

Cedip acquisition targets surveillance market.(imaging & detector: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France), a supplier of infrared imaging cameras and systems, has acquired PolyTech (Stockholm, Sweden), a manufacturer of gyro-stabilized airborne platforms. The acquisition, details of which were not...

Venus Express pushes imaging limits.(imaging & detector: industry report)
January 1, 2006... A CCD image sensor made by e2v (Chelmsford, England) was recently rocketed into space as part of the European Space Agency's new fact-finding mission to Venus. The "Venus Express" will study the chemistry and composition of Venus' hot,...

Kopin wins night-vision contract.(imaging & detector: industry report)
January 1, 2006... The largest U.S. manufacturer of micro-displays for mobile consumer and military electronics, Kopin (Taunton, MA), was awarded a production contract from ITT Industries Night Vision (ITT) for display subsystems to be used in the new generation...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a 3.5-year, $9.5 million program.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a 3.5-year, $9.5 million program to Erich Ippen, a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE: Cambridge, MA) faculty, for a project titled "Optical Arbitrary...

Raytheon Company Network Centric Systems (McKinney, TX) awarded DRS Technologies (Parsippany, NJ) an $18 million contract to produce optically improved.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Raytheon Company Network Centric Systems (McKinney, TX) awarded DRS Technologies (Parsippany, NJ) an $18 million contract to produce optically improved, Standard Advanced Dewar Assembly (SADA) II assemblies for use on the U.S. Army's M2A3...

FLIR Systems.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... FLIR Systems(North Billerica, MA) will manufacture infrared visual sensor systems for a $50 million U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center contract....

Unaxis Optics (Balzers, Lichtenstein) and Premier Image Technology, a digital-still-camera manufacturer based in Taiwan, have signed a global licensing agreement on patents.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Unaxis Optics (Balzers, Lichtenstein) and Premier Image Technology, a digital-still-camera manufacturer based in Taiwan, have signed a global licensing agreement on patents owned by Unaxis Optics related to ColorWheels and their use in color...

Luminetx.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Luminetx (Memphis, TN), which has developed an IR vein-imaging system dubbed the VeinViewer, has secured $11 million in Series A preferred financing.

Emcore acquires Phasebridge.(fiberoptics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Anticipating that this transaction will increase its projected fiscal 2006 revenues by approximately $2 million, Emcore (Somerset, NJ), a provider of compound-semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiberoptic,...

Infinera tops long-haul shipments.(fiberoptics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... According to a report published by market analysts the Dell'Oro Group, Infinera (Sunnyvale, CA) captured the numberone position in high-speed long-haul optical networks in the third quarter 2005. According to Dell'Oro, Infinera shipped 1449...

Infineon disperses fiberoptic assets.(fiberoptics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Plans have been announced to finalize the disposition of the remaining fiberoptics assets of Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany)--the manufacturing facility in Trutnov (Czech Republic) and the parallel optical link business. Siemens VDO...

Sun and Luxtera partner on CMOS DWDM.(fiberoptics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... Luxtera (Carlsbad, CA), a fabless semiconductor company concentrating on silicon photonics, announced that it has been chosen by Sun Microsystems as a technology partner to develop high-bandwidth, low-latency dense...

E.U. merges mobile and optical communications.(fiberoptics: industry report)
January 1, 2006... A three-year project that ended in August has yielded significant advances in the merging of mobile and optical communications. The pan-European Network of Excellence on broadband Fiber Radio Techniques and its Integration Technologies...

BFi OPTiLAS International (Evry, France) and Bristol Instruments (Victor, NY) have signed a pan-European agreement.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... BFi OPTiLAS International (Evry, France) and Bristol Instruments (Victor, NY) have signed a pan-European agreement whereby BFi OPTiLAS will become the exclusive distributor of Bristol Instruments' range of laser-wavelength meters in Europe.

Discovery Semiconductors.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Discovery Semiconductors (Ewing, NJ) has delivered low-distortion, fiber-coupled 15-GHz receivers for analog fiberoptic antenna links for the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory...

Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA) has acquired all of the optical-transponder assets of Big Bear Networks.(Also in the news ...)
January 1, 2006... Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA) has acquired all of the optical-transponder assets of Big Bear Networks--including its 10 Gigabit Ethernet Xenpak and 40-Gbit/s transponder products--for $1.9 million in cash.

The march of the tradeshows: component makers are most successful when showing end-users the value of their products.(inside imaging)
January 1, 2006... Recent tradeshows have emphasized one thing above all: success is directly related to showing how components are integrated into systems. This was clear over the course of several seemingly disparate tradeshows that all included...

It's time to build a 'great photonics society'.(business forum)
January 1, 2006... It has been more than 40 years since I became an IEEE student member, and I have been a member of OSA almost as long. I enjoy being part of the LEOS and OSA communities. I have always viewed our professional societies as benevolent associations...

Worldwide needs demand strong scientific commitment.(comment)(Company Profile)
January 1, 2006... When the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) was founded 50 years ago, there were no lasers, and lens design was performed using electromechanical machinery and slide rules. Times have changed dramatically in just a few...

Choosing software: different design paths lead to different solutions, Part II.(software & computing)
January 1, 2006... When the physical features of an optical system shrink to within an order of magnitude of the wavelength of light, physical-optics software must be used for system design, because the assumptions necessary for a geometrical optics or...

Market's messages are mixed; low growth overall in 2005 masks some strong performers.(LASER MARKETPLACE 2006)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2006... The good news is that, after more than 40 years, the laser industry is beginning to mature--or at least parts of it are. This is good news for several reasons, not least of which is the overall stability that comes with an increasingly diverse...

Optical contacting grows more robust.(OPTICAL FABRICATION)
January 1, 2006... Micro-optic systems consisting of prisms, beamsplitters and other optical components are used across a variety of industries from telecommunications to biophotonics. They can increase the efficiency of fiberoptic and endoscopic imaging systems...

Direct nanoparticle deposition builds active fibers.(SPECIALTY FIBERS)
January 1, 2006... Unique among solid-state lasers, fiber lasers offer a power-scalable and flexible platform for producing high-quality beams with a range of performance characteristics. Fiber lasers can access many spectral regions in continuous-wave (CW),...

Photonic power conversion delivers power via laser beams; transmitting power in the form of light eliminates electrical connections, saving money and eliminating noise for equipment in difficult locations.(PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: PHOTONIC POWER DELIVERY)
January 1, 2006... Life on Earth depends on photonic power delivery--the sunlight that plants use for photosynthesis--but most modern technology depends on electricity, usually delivered over copper wires. Yet it isn't practical to transmit electricity to moving...

Index matching offers a low-cost route to complex optics.(ADAPTIVE OPTICS)
January 1, 2006... During the last decade, optical fabrication has changed significantly because of the introduction of techniques that enable economical production of complex aspherical and diffractive elements. An index-matching technique that we are developing...

Quantum-dot development pursues new applications.(QUANTUM-DOT SOURCES)
January 1, 2006... Despite the initial expectations of high differential gain, the modulation response of quantum-dot (QD) lasers has remained limit ed in the most interesting 1300- to 1550-nm wavelength region. New applications, however, do take advantage of...

Optical sensors improve consumer safety: in automobiles, smoke alarms, food packaging, and many other areas, image sensors and optical detectors are using sophisticated data-processing algorithms to help make the world a safer place.(OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS: SURVEILLANCE)
January 1, 2006... The need to develop more-advanced technologies for military reconnaissance, homeland security, and environmental monitoring has helped optical sensors become critical components of modern-day surveillance systems. Security cameras have been...

Silicon photon-counting detectors enable next-generation imaging.(LOW-LIGHT IMAGING)
January 1, 2006... A revolution in silicon (Si) photon-counting devices is currently under way, with a plethora of new detectors currently entering the market. These detectors enable a wide range of new applications from fluorescence-lifetime imaging to...

PMT detectors address DNA sequencing.(PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES)
January 1, 2006... The sequencing of the human genome was completed fairly recently and already subsequent projects such as the SNP consortium (an international group characterizing single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]--common DNA sequence variations among...

Applications dictate gimbal selection.(POSITIONING SYSTEMS)
January 1, 2006... Precision motion-control systems have found widespread use in a number of broad markets. Each application requires certain critical motion performance specifications that define the motion technology or technologies best suited for the job. In...

All-reflective objective.(new products)
January 1, 2006... A 15x Schwarzschild all-reflective objective lens has an athermal design, stray-light-reduction, a [lambda]/10 transmitted wavefront, and no need for adjustment. The objective comes with a protected gold or UV-enhanced aluminum coating, or can...

Color 3-D laser sensor.(new products)
January 1, 2006... The CLS60 is a color 3-D laser sensor optimized for portable laser scanning. The sensor obtains complex 3-D geometry and texture with color-per-vertex quality. It delivers 19,200 points per second with 0.001 in. accuracy, utilizing multiple CCD...

Laser module.(new products)
January 1, 2006... The HPFC high-power fiber-coupled laser module is designed for use in photodynamic therapy, microwelding, tissue welding, medical, cosmetic, and OEM and R&D applications. The module offers output powers up to 25 W, variable pulse lengths from 1...

Beam profiler.(new products)
January 1, 2006... The LaserCam HR has a USB 2.0 PC interface with BeamView 4.1 Analyser PC beam-analysis software. It features a large-area, windowless CMOS sensor and provides 1.3 megapixel, 6.7-[micro]m square pixels. The system measures beam diameter, focused...

Lens-design software.(new products)
January 1, 2006... Version 6.3.3 OSLO lens-design software is available on Windows and Linux platforms, including RedHat 8.0 and SUSE 9.1 Linux distributions. It has more than 50 enhancements since the 6.3 release, addressing requests for interoperability,...

Nanopositioner.(new products)
January 1, 2006... The Nano-Z500 nanopositioner is designed for microscopy applications that require high speed and long-range z-axis travel. The piezo actuator device contains internal position sensors to provide closedloop loop resolution of better than 3 nm...

Flexible adhesive.(new products)
January 1, 2006... EP37-3FLF low-viscosity, high-flexibility adhesive/ sealant has an operating temperature range of -80[degrees]F to 250[degrees]F, volume resistivity of 1 x [10.sup.14] ohm-cm at 75[degrees]F, a Shore D hardness of 30, and a tensile strength of...