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Industrial Femtosecond Lasers
The D2.fs from RPMC (O’Fallon, MO) is an industrial femtosecond laser available at 4W and 10W with pulse widths as short as 400fs at rep rates up to 200 kHz. The D2.fs produces a maximum energy of 200uJ at 50...
Products: Photonics/Optics
10mm Waveplates
Tower Optical Corp. (Boynton Beach, FL) has announced the availability of a new series of Zero Order and Multiple Order, Crystal Quartz, waveplates based upon a waveplate diameter of 10mm. The waveplates are offered unmounted...
Products: Photonics/Optics
DC to HV DC Converters
EMCO’s (Sutter Creek, CA) A Series is a new line of ultra-miniature, DC to HV DC converters that occupy less than one tenth of a cubic inch of volume, and have an extremely low profile of only 0.250 inches (6.35mm)....
Products: Photonics/Optics
Infrared Detectors
Cal Sensors (Santa Rosa, CA) has announced two new infrared detector lines. The first is a new line of single element PbS detectors designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications such as fire safety and flame...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Precision Optics
Z & Z Optoelectronics Tech Co. (Chengdu Sichuan, China) provides precision optical components for high-power laser, spaceflight, aviation, defense & security, and biomedical applications. Z&Z’s super polishing...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Power Supplies
TDK-Lambda Americas (San Diego, CA & Neptune, NJ) has launched a new line of 1600W front-end power supplies for use in distributed, hot-pluggable and redundant power systems. The HFE1600 series operate off a universal AC...
Products: Photonics/Optics
850nm VCSEL LC TOSA
The Optoelectronics Company (Hertfordshire, UK) is pleased to announce the release of the TP85-LCP1F, a high-performance 850nm VCSEL LC Transmitter Optical Sub Assembly (TOSA) designed for high speed data communications,...
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Thermal Imaging Camera
The new FTI-E 1000 camera from Land Instruments (Dronfield, UK) is designed for high-temperature applications. Operating at 1μm, the new instrument combines high-resolution thermal imaging with accurate temperature...
The DOE's Fuel Cell Technologies Program is offering up to $12 million to advance hydrogen storage technologies for use in fuel cell powered vehicles and other...
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From Aircraft Wings to Wind Turbine Blades: NASA Software Comes Back to Earth with Green Energy Applications
You might think a wind turbine would have more in common with a plane’s propeller than an aircraft wing, but wind blades...
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Carbon Nanotubes on Titanium Substrates for Stray Light Suppression
A method has been developed for growing carbon nanotubes on a titanium substrate, which makes the nanotubes ten times blacker than the current state-of-the-art paints in the visible to near infrared. This will allow for significant improvement of stray light performance in...
Products: Energy
30V Power MOSFETs
The NexFET™ power MOSFET from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) has been designed to minimize losses in power conversion applications. The MOSFET features ultralow Qg and Qgd, low thermal resistance, and Pb-free terminal...
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Scalable Real-Time OS
TenAsys Corporation (Beaverton, OR) has announced a new scalable real-time OS called INtime® Distributed RTOS. Based on INtime for Windows®, INtime Distributed RTOS enables programmers to write applications that run...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Separation Kernel and Embedded Hypervisor
LynuxWorks™ (San Jose, CA) has introduced LynxSecure 5.0, a new separation kernel and hypervisor that adds performance increases for fully virtualized guest operating systems (OSes) by utilizing...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Oscilloscope in a DIP Module
Saelig Company (Pittsford, NY) has introduced Xprotolab - the first mixed-signal oscilloscope with an arbitrary waveform generator housed in a tiny 1" x 1.6" DIP module. It can be mounted directly on a breadboard...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
3U cPCI Single Board Computer
The 75DP3 from North Atlantic Industries (NAI) (Bohemia, NY) is a single slot, 3U cPCI SBC configured with Freescale’s™ PowerPC MPC8536 or Analog Devices’ Blackfin® BF533 processor. When coupled with the...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
SATA-based VME Disk Module
Elma Electronic Systems division (Fremont, CA) now offers the SATA-based EDM2, a dual-slot 6U VME storage module that retains the SCSI interface while adding the latest in 2.5" SATA drive technology. The new module...
Products: Electronics & Computers
High-Power Transformers
Payton Planar Magnetics (Deerfield Beach, FL) offers high-power transformers with 99%+ efficiencies. These types of transformers are used in battery charging stations for HV and can be connected in series to achieve...
News: Energy
Insight into Bacteria for Solar Energy
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used small-angle neutron scattering to analyze the structure of chlorosomes in green photosynthetic...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Advanced Diodes
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) announced the availability of the Qspeed family of advanced diodes. Qspeed diodes use a unique silicon-based process to combine an extremely low reverse recovery charge (QRR) with a very soft recovery waveform. Together, these features help designers optimize the efficiency and EMI performance of...
News: Energy
Improving the Vanadium Redox Battery
Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its high cost. New...
News: Energy
View the March Issue of Solar & Wind Power
The latest issue of Solar & Wind Power is here. Inside the March issue are more feature articles, tech briefs, application stories, and technologies for license - all on the latest alternative...
CgWind is a new, high-fidelity simulation tool designed to meet the modeling requirements of advanced wind energy resources. These new resources, targeting 20% of the US...
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Black Silicon Enhanced Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaic Devices
An enhanced thin-film silicon photovoltaic device with improved efficiency has been developed. Thin-film silicon solar cells suffer from low material absorption...
Videos: Green Design & Manufacturing
Better Turbine Spacing for Large Wind Farms
Large wind farms are being built around the world, but operators are still searching for the most cost-effective and efficient way to arrange the massive turbines. To help steer wind farm owners...
Products: Energy
Capacitive Sensor Signal Conditioner
ZMDI (Dresden, Germany) has expanded its family of capacitive sensor signal conditioners (SSCs) with the addition of the wide-dynamic-range ZSSC3122 cLite device. With new design technology, the chip...
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There’s An App For That
Want to learn how to fire a Patriot missile at something? There’s an app for that. No, seriously…there’s an app for that.
According to a press release I received last week, a company called C2 Technologies has just developed the first of what will be 7 mobile iPhone applications designed to train the U.S...
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Extending Battery Life for Mobile Devices
University of Illinois engineers have developed a form of ultra-low-power digital memory that is faster and uses 100 times less energy than similar available memory. The technology could give...
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Cell Division: The Movie (In 3D!)
There may be some new movies coming out in 3-D, and no, I'm not talking about a Yogi Bear sequel. A new live-cell microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus lets researchers use a thin sheet of light to reveal three-dimensional shapes of cellular...
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