Products: Photonics/Optics
Leybold Optics (Cary, NC) is now offering direct monitoring on box coaters with planet (double rotation) configuration. Optical monitoring is used in optical thin film production, in addition to...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Bridger Photonics (Bozeman, MT) has announced a new line of absolute distance measurement systems, called the SLM Series. These systems are capable of ultra-high resolution length and thickness measurements...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Labsphere’s (North Sutton, NH) new thermal/optical/electrical LED Measurement Systems (TOCS) enables measurement of optical properties as a function of temperature and operating current using a single instrument. The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Brimrose (Sparks, MD) has developed a miniature high speed Process AOTF-NIR (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Near Infrared) Analyzer, 7030-IP55, that performs ON-LINE measurement with extreme accuracy. The rugged solid-state...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Goodrich Corporation’s ISR Systems Princeton team (formerly Sensors Unlimited) (Princeton, NJ) has introduced a high-sensitivity, mil-hardened, indium gallium arsenide (In-GaAs) shortwave infrared...
News: Government
Funding Opportunity for Vehicle Research and Development
The DOE is accepting applications for up to $184 million over three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of new efficient vehicle technologies that will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, save drivers money, and limit carbon pollution.
Briefs: Energy
High-Resolution Wind Measurements for Offshore Wind Energy Development
A mathematical transform, called the Rosette Transform, together with a new method, called the Dense Sampling Method, have been developed. The Rosette Transform is invented to apply to both the mean part and the fluctuating part of a targeted radar signature using the Dense...
Blog: Materials
Biologically Inspired = Highly Desired?
Mother Nature is a great innovator. In fact, one might argue that some of today's most efficient technologies were not engineered, but rather, exist in nature as the byproducts of a little process called evolution.
As such, it comes as no surprise that scientists sometimes look to nature as a source...
News: Energy
Last Thursday, I left New York for DC to check out the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC) held at the Washington Convention Center. Though my Amtrak train was a little slow in getting there, the show flew by in a...
News: Energy
Renewable energy comes out of an electricity socket, but to get there it has to travel a long journey – from wind turbines out at sea or regional solar, wind, and biogas power plants....
News: Energy
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric...
Products: Energy
National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) introduced the LM5119, a high voltage, dual-channel, dual-phase, synchronous buck controller with emulated current-mode (ECM) control. The LM5119 is ideal...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Emergency? A robot will be right with you
The emergency room may look a bit different in five years. And when I say "different," I mean that mobile robots will be waiting on you and collecting your blood pressure and pulse rate.
Computer engineers at Vanderbilt University have a new idea about improving a hospital's emergency department,...
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Green Hills Software, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced SuperTrace™ Probe v3 that starts with 4 gigabytes of trace - expandable to higher capacities - and has a sustained JTAG download speed of over 10...
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Virtual Machine with RTOS Platform Support
Atego (San Diego, CA) has released Aonix Perc Ultra® with support for execution on Wind River’s VxWorks MILS Platform 2.1. Aonix Perc Ultra for VxWorks MILS responds to the need for Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) that enables deployment of embedded and real-time Java™ applications...
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VISTAGY, Inc. (Waltham, MA) has released SyncroFIT® 2010, which improves the efficiency and accuracy of airframe assembly development by enabling commercial 3D CAD users to fully define and...
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MathWorks (Natick, MA) announced the R2010b release of Data Acquisition Toolbox, which enables engineers and scientists to use National Instruments CompactDAQ data acquisition hardware directly from MATLAB....
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
A team led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre of Southampton, UK have measured the air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the open ocean at the highest wind speed...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) offers the LinkZero-LP, an integrated offline switcher IC that automatically enters a zero-input-power mode when the load is disconnected, cutting no-load power consumption to...
Blog
Baby You Can Charge My Car
We’ve been hearing for some time now how emissions-free electric vehicles (EVs) could someday save the planet – or at least our part of it – by replacing cars powered with internal combustion engines. What nobody can seem to tell us is when that day will come.
Two companies that hope to answer that...
News: Energy
Water purification requires a lot of energy, while utility companies need large amounts of water for energy production. Researchers from the University of Colorado Denver College of...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) has announced that the roadmap for its breakthrough STM32 family of 32-bit MCUs based on ARM® Cortex-MT processor cores will include new devices centered on the Cortex-M4 and...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Saelig Company, Inc. (Pittsford, NY) has introduced JoyWarrior24F14, a high-resolution USB-connected 3-axis acceleration sensor with 125μg sensitivity. The new USB-powered JoyWarrior24F14 offers acceleration...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Kontron (Poway, CA) has introduced the world’s first PCIe/104™ embedded single board computer (SBC) based on the Intel® Atom™ E600C processor series, pairing an Intel Atom E600 series processor with an...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
The new Vision1040™ PLC and integrated HMI from Unitronics (Quincy, MA) allows machine manufacturers and system integrators to add both a brilliant 10.4” color touch-screen equipped with 9 programmable...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Anritsu Company (Richardson, TX) has introduced the MT9090A Network Master™ Micro-OTDR, a new tool for the installation and maintenance of today’s optical networks. The MT9090A Network Master features 5 cm resolution for...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Optical Gaging Products (OGP®) (Rochester, NY) has introduced the new SmartScope® Apex Micro precision dimensional measurement system. Apex Micro is a floor model fixed optics system featuring a...
INSIDER Product: Imaging
Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC) has announced commercial availability of the new Cree XLamp® XM-L high-performance lighting-class LEDs, designed for very high-lumen applications such as high-bay or roadway lighting. Cool white...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Asylum Research (Santa Barbara, CA) has announced the new NanoRack™ Sample Stretching Stage Accessory for its MFP-3D™ atomic force microscopes (AFMs). This high-strain, high-travel manual stretching...
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