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Products: Photonics/Optics
ROMER (North Kingstown, RI) has announced the CMS108, a non-contact laser scanner available for its portable coordinate measuring machines. The CMS108 mounts with a kinematic joint to the seven-axis ROMER portable...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The DLP® LightCrafter™ platform from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) allows developers to harness spatial light steering from a compact module. Users can create, store, and display high-speed pattern sequences through DLP...
Articles: Imaging
There are a number of drawbacks to traditional two-dimensional environments. In 2D, images appear flat and only offer one perspective. In 3D, images have depth and offer multiple...
Articles: Imaging
Auto-fluorescent proteins have become an indispensible tool for cell biology research over the past decade. Originating from sea creatures such as jellyfish and sea...
Application Briefs: Imaging
MPC , a Walworth, Wisconsin-based manufacturer of plastic parts for the automotive industry, builds many types of components. One such product is the oil filler cap for the car’s engine. The cap...
Products: Imaging
Industrial Sensor Vision International (ISVI) Corp. (Cheshire, CT) has introduced two split cameras for automation, PCB, and wafer inspection. The 5 Mega Pixel / 30 FPS Split camera has a 1.67 x 1.67 μm pixel size; CMOS sensor...
Products: Imaging
Pepperl+Fuchs (Twinsburg, OH) has announced DK12-11-IO Series Contrast Sensors. The DK12-11-IO sensors use a three-color light source to detect differences in two colors of media. The components are IO-Link-compatible, enabling...
Products: Imaging
The Piranha HS NIR Line Scan Camera from Teledyne DALSA (Billerica, MA) features improved sensitivity in near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths from 700 to 1050 nanometers. The Piranha HS NIR, which includes time delay and...
Products: Imaging
Linux-based, programmable cameras from VRmagic (Cambridge, MA) are now available with miniature connectors. For its Linux-based intelligent cameras, VRmagic offers a back end with Picoblade™ connectors for Ethernet, USB...
Products: Imaging
The f/5.5 Atalanta IR zoom lens from IRZoom, the infrared zoom lens division of Computer Optics Inc. (Hudson, NH), offers a 15-435 mm focal range with 3-second, end-to-end continuous zoom. Optional 2x and 2.5x extenders allow...
Products: Imaging
Adlink Technology (San Jose, CA) has released the EOS-1200, a Gigabit PoE embedded vision system that implements the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 quad core processor, providing four independent gigabit PoE (power...
Products: Imaging
The XG-8000 Vision System from the Keyence Corporation (Itasca, IL) features line scan camera models, a high-speed triple core processor, and multicamera connectivity. The XG-8000 offers simultaneous operation of up to 8 cameras....
Products: Imaging
Matrox Imaging (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) has announced enhancements to the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) 9, a software development toolkit for image analysis, machine vision, medical imaging, and video analytics. The...
News
Researchers Find New Way to Produce 3D Microchips
Researchers at MIT have come up with a new approach to MEMS design that enables engineers to design 3-D configurations, using existing fabrication processes; with this approach, the researchers built a MEMS device that enables 3-D sensing on a single chip. The tiny silicon device contains...
News: Materials
Approximately 75 percent of electricity used in the U.S. is produced by coal-burning power plants that expel carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Berkeley Lab researchers are searching for...
Research News: Lighting
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Solar cells, light emitting diodes, displays and other electronic devices could get a bump in performance because of a discovery at the Department of...
Articles: Lighting
When working together, the packager and silicone provider should take into account several details. One major consideration is the methodology used when packaging an LED, such as surface mount LED,...
Articles: Lighting Technology
LED, semiconductor, and package designers use complex thermal analysis software to analyze their products, but the analysis is only as good as the data provided. Reliable clarification of heat data upstream and downstream is...
Briefs: Lighting
It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids—and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be precise, a plasma is...
Briefs: Lighting
Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location identification system that uses radio frequency...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Covert lighting on military aircraft is increasingly being implemented on existing airframes to create a compatible environment for pilots using night vision goggles during flight. This retrofitting procedure...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Lumex, Palatine, Illinois
Due to the significant performance benefits they provide, LED and LCD technologies are replacing traditional incandescent bulb fixtures in more and more places throughout the cockpit...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Wilbrecht LEDCO’s new Night Vision Imaging System (NVIS) compatible LEDs are designed for avionics applications that require night vision compatibility. Available in green, yellow, white and red in both...
Techs for License: Lighting
New technology developed at NDSU uses an extensible array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a means of sensing incident light levels. This light-sensing LED array can be used to construct highly-dynamic...
Techs for License: Lighting
Heterocycles for Use in Electronic Devices
Synthesis of heterocyclic aromatic compounds has been pursued for a long time by chemists in order to analyze their properties and potential applications in biomedical and materials sciences including electronic devices such as organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) and in hydrogen storage.
Products: Lighting
Green Watt Power (Concord, CA) has announced the GLC-150 Series of AC/DC LED power supplies. The GLC-150 Series has a universal / full range AC input voltage of 100 — 277 VAC. The power supplies offer 150W output power and are...
Products: Lighting
The ZLED7015 step-up converter from ZMD AG (Dresden, Germany) features an integrated 35V power switch for high-brightness LEDs. The input voltage ranges from 6V to 30V. The converter, which includes a 0.3V voltage feedback...
Products: Lighting
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) has introduced an online selection tool that enables users to rapidly identify the appropriate power supply reference design for an LED lighting application. The LED Design Selector...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland are in the early stages of designing a sample-collecting comet harpoon. NASA Goddard’s...
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