SINGAPORE, July 30, 2010: Zecotek Photonics, a developer of photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, announced that the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois (Fermilab) has contracted with Zecotek to develop a custom Micro-pixel Avalanche Photo Diode (MAPD) based on an existing Zecotek MAPD-3 design. The custom units are required to meet specifications for the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Hadron Calorimeter Phase 1 upgrade. The CMS is a major experiment of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's newest and highest energy particle accelerator, brought into operation at CERN in 2009.

"Fermilab is one of the world's leading centers for high energy physics, and their contract for development of our MAPD for the CERN's Mr Hadron Collider upgrade speaks to the quality of our technological solutions and products," said Dr AF Zerrouk, Chairman, President and CEO of Zecotek. "We are very pleased to have this contract with Fermilab and look forward to working with CERN's CMS group on this important project. Zecotek has established itself as the pre-eminent technology solution provider for solid-state photo detection. We are pleased as well to be developing solutions which contribute to the tremendous quest of understanding the makeup of our World."