Advance Power Technology RF (APT-RF) is a newly formed organisation and brand. It is the result of the integration of the RF businesses of APT and of two RF acquisitions, GHz Technology (January 2002) and Microsemi RF (May 2002).

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Louisville has developed a process for growing nanometer-scale wires that controls the tiny wires size, structure and composition.

Researchers from the University of Bath in England have propelled polystyrene beads through a hollow fibre with a laser beam.

Morris Productions has ceased manufacturing PCBs and has entered into an agreement with Precision Circuits to manufacture PCBs.

Philips and LG have opened a fifth-generation thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD fabrication plant in Korea. Located in Kumi, South Korea, it will produce TFT-LCDs for 15 and 18 inch desktop monitors and 15 inch notebook PCs, as well as larger LCD TVs. The facility uses larger glass substrates (1000mm x1200mm).

The problem of computer generated heat is being researched by Hewlett Packard which is using inkjet technology by spraying cool streams of liquid onto the surface of semiconductor chips.

Scientists from Philips have fabricated flat panel displays through simple coating techniques similar to painting. Philips claims that this makes displays cheaper, thinner and provides great design freedom.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is responsible for developing and publishing international standards and specifications for all electrical, electronic and related technologies. Its International Standards are recognised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and are used by WTO member countries as the basis for their national standards. Some 200 technical committees and subcommittees and 10,000 experts around the world contribute to the standardisation work of the commission.

IBM scientists have developed a transistor technology that could enable production of a new class of smaller, faster and lower power computer chips than currently possible with silicon.

Richardson Electronics has announced the formation of a Fibre Optic Communications business unit.

Universal Display Corporation, Princeton University and the University of Southern California have announced the expansion and extension of their collaborative research agreement on advanced organic thin film devices, including organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) for flat panel displays, organic lasers, organic lighting and other areas of organic electronics through 2007.

MIT researchers have created high-performance mirrors in the shape of hair-like flexible fibres that could be woven into cloth or incorporated in paper. Applications may include fabrics with embedded "bar codes" that identify the wearer, potentially useful in the battle suits of future soldiers; or a lightweight cloth that reflects radiation, protecting from blasts of heat. These mirrors could also be used as filters for telecommunications applications.

Researchers at Rensselaer have discovered a new property of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN) that, when exposed to a conventional photographic flash, emit a loud pop and then ignite.

Engineers and scientists from three United Kingdom universities are combining to produce, what they claim to be, the world's smallest electronic nose, an industrial device that is able to replicate the odour sensor capability of the human nose.

Experiments at the University of Arizona, Tucson, have demonstrated moving images made out of organic LEDs and power generating arrays of plastic solar cells, with the potential for many more kinds of output.