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August 2007

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UC President Dynes to step down
Oakland, CA, 13 August 2007: University of California President Robert C. Dynes - a first-generation college graduate and renowned physicist who rose to become president of the world's most prestigious public university system - announced today (Aug. 13) his intention to step down as president by June 2008.
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Zenergy Receives Core Patent in Key Renewable Energy Markets
London, UK, 9 August 2007: Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN.L), the specialist manufacturer and developer of commercial applications for high-temperature superconductive (`HTS‘) materials, is pleased to announce that the Group has been granted a core patent covering its groundbreaking HTS coils in Germany.
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AMSC Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
Westborough, MA, 9 August 2007: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today reported financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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SUPERPOWER ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD RECORDS IN WIRE AND MAGNET TECHNOLOGIES
Schenectady, NY, 7 August 2007: SuperPower, Inc. today reported a number of new milestone achievements and world record performance at the 2007 U. S. Department of Energy (DoE) Annual Peer Review in Superconductivity for Electric Systems in Arlington, Virginia.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVE COMPONENTS, INC. REPORTS STRONG SECOND QUARTER 2007 RESULTS
Columbus, OH, 7 August 2007: Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCCI), dba SCI Engineered Materials, a manufacturer of high quality sputtering targets for select markets in the physical vapor deposition industry, today announced results for the three months ended June 30, 2007.
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Brookhaven Physics Leaders Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison Receive IEEE's Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award
Upton, NY, 3 August 2007: Satoshi Ozaki and Michael Harrison, physicist-administrators at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory who led the decade-long development and construction of the Laboratory's world-class particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), were awarded the 2007 Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award. Sponsored by the Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the award consists of $2,000, shared equally between the two recipients and a plaque for each recipient with the inscription: "For leadership in the successful design and construction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider."
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HTS-110 ships class-leading 5 tesla beamline magnet to HMI, Germany
Berlin, Germany, 3 August 2007: HTS-110 has shipped the first of its 5 tesla HTS Beamline magnets to the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany. It is the most powerful magnet to date from the New Zealand company, achieving an impressive 5.4 tesla during testing, well above the 5 tesla minimum target. The magnet is destined for magnetic diffraction research at the Berlin Electron Synchrotron (BESSY), Germany's advanced synchrotron radiation facility.
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Superconductor Technologies Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2007 Results
Santa Barbara, CA, 2 August 2007: Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:SCON), a leading provider of advanced wireless solutions, innovative adaptive filtering, and world class cryogenics products for commercial and government applications, today announced results for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2007.
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July 2007

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Oxford Instruments plc Acquires Worldwide Analytical Systems AG (WAS)
London, UK, 26 July 2007:Oxford Instruments plc ("the Company"), the high technology tools and systems company, announces today that it has received irrevocable acceptances for 81.4% of the issued share capital of WAS, a leading German manufacturer and international supplier of Arc/Spark optical emission instrumentation used to analyse the chemical properties of metals.
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AMSC Sets First-Quarter Reporting Date for August 9, 2007
Westborough, MA, 26 July 2007: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) , a leading energy technologies company, announced today it will release its first-quarter fiscal 2007 financial results prior to the market opening on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
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Nexans Shows Strong growth in first half-year 2007 results
Paris, 25 July, 2007: The Board of Directors of Nexans chaired by Gérard Hauser, met on July 24, 2007 and reviewed the Group's consolidated financial statements for the 2007 first half-year.
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Frost + Sullivan Recognises Paramed Medical System's Achievement in Identifying New Markets and Developing Novel Products to Capture Their Potential
London, UK, 25 July 2007: Based on its recent analysis of the European MRI Market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised Paramed Medical Systems with the 2007 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Entrepreneurial Company for its pioneering spirit in exploring new markets and developing products to capitalise on the opportunities they present.
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Visualase, Inc. Announces Successful Completion of First Six Clinical Procedures with Its Image-Guided Thermal Therapy System for Treatment of Brain Metastases
Houston, TX, 25 July 2007: Visualase, Inc. with its research partner BioTex, Inc. and the "Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris" healthcare network have enrolled and completed treatment of the first six patients in a pilot, phase I study, with the objective to demonstrate the safety of the Visualase® magnetic resonance (MR) guided laser thermal ablation technique for the minimally invasive treatment of brain metastasis.
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Varian, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Palo Alto, CA, 25 July 2007: Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI) today reported that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2007 increased 8.3% from the third quarter of fiscal year 2006. The increase was driven by solid growth in sales of Scientific Instruments products for industrial applications. Demand was strong within Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America, and while still soft, North America showed sequential improvement. Revenues were $227.1 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2007, compared to $209.7 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2006.
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Aberdeen takes delivery of new £1.5m MRI scanner
Aberdeen, UK, 24 July 2007: A leap forward in brain and cancer research will be put in motion today when a 7-tonne, state-of-the-art magnet for a new extremely powerful MRI scanner is delivered to the University of Aberdeen's Radiology Department.
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AMSC Receives New $70 Million Order from China's Sinovel Wind
Westborough, MA, 24 July 2007: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today announced that it has received a follow-on $70 million order for wind turbine electrical systems from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited. The order calls for AMSC's wholly-owned subsidiary, AMSC Windtec, to ship the customized electrical systems to Sinovel in 2008 for use in Sinovel's 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind energy systems. AMSC Windtec turbine electrical systems provide reliable, high-performance wind turbine operation by controlling power flows, regulating voltage and controlling the pitch of wind turbine blades to maximize efficiency.
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AMSC Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock
Westborough, MA, 20 July 2007: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 4,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $21.25 per share, before underwriting discounts and commissions. AMSC also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 705,000 shares of common stock. All of the shares are being offered by AMSC. The offering is expected to close on or about July 25, 2007, subject to customary closing conditions.
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European Superconductivity News Forum
Jülich, Germany, 20 July 2007: The IEEE Council on Superconductivity (CSC) and the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) are developing a new joint project: the "European Superconductivity News Forum."
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Worldwide awards for Air Liquide Electronics
Paris, 19 July 2007: Cryogenics supplier Air Liquide is present at the Semicon West trade show dedicated to semiconductors at San Francisco (USA) from July 17-20, 2007. This trade show brings together all customers and suppliers in the semiconductors field.
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SCI Engineered Materials Adds Process Development Engineer
Columbus, OH, 18 July 2007: Superconductive Components, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCCI), dba SCI Engineered Materials, a manufacturer of high quality sputtering targets for select markets in the physical vapor deposition industry, today announced that Kyle Fischbach has joined the company's Technology group as a Process Development Engineer.
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Varian, Inc. Announces Live Public Webcast of Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2007 Results
Palo Alto, CA, 218 July 2007: Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI) today announced that the company plans to report its fiscal year 2007 third quarter results after 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on Wednesday, July 25, 2007. A conference call to review the quarterly results is scheduled to follow at 2:00 p.m. PT that same day.
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FSU's Larbalestier Receives Cryogenics Lifetime Achievement Award
Tallahassee, FL, 16 July 2007: David Larbalestier, the director of FSU's Applied Superconductivity Center, has been selected to receive the Cryogenic Materials Award for Lifetime Achievements 2007 from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference (ICMC). He will be presented with the award during a meeting of the conference on Tuesday, July 17, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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