Products: Photonics/Optics
Image Simulation
The 2D Image Simulation feature in CODE V® 9.7 from Optical Research Associates (Pasadena, CA) allows users to visualize overall performance and communicate design tradeoffs to non-optical personnel. The function displays...
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EUV Light Source
The model 642 Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light source from McPherson, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) utilizes a filament to produce electrons that are accelerated toward a target by high voltage. It is stable, debris-free, and...
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Laser Cutting System
Cincinnati Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) introduced the CL-707 high-speed, super-size laser with interchangeable 8 × 20' cutting tables. The linear motor drive delivers 10,000 ipm head positioning. The 5 kW power of the cutting...
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LED Transmitters
OPTEK Technology (Carrollton, TX) offers the OPF670 series of fiber optic LED transmitters for integration into data communications equipment. The series consists of the OPF670 in a TO-46 package, the OPF672 in a standard...
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Non-Circular Optical Fibers
Liekki (Lohja, Finland) has released square and rectangular optical fibers for high-power delivery applications. Square- and rectangular-shaped fibers more closely match optical sources. Different combinations —...
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Tunable Light Source
The TLS Series of software-controlled (Windows®) wavelength tunable light sources from Optometrics Corp. (Ayer, MA) can be used for detector sensitivity testing, color matching, and characterization, as well as...
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Clean Water Technology
University of Delaware researchers have developed an inexpensive, nonchlorine- based technology that can remove harmful microorganisms, including viruses, from drinking water. The patented technology incorporates highly reactive iron in the filtering process to deliver a chemical "knock-out punch" to a host of notorious...
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TECH NEEDS OF THE WEEK
Small, universal mobile receivers are needed that are capable of receiving mobile satellite television signals. These receivers should be similar to those installed and used by satellite radio. The receivers will convert the signal from a satellite to a mounted or OEM satellite, thus delivering cable television to mobile...
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Engine For Satellites
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new protoype engine that uses up to 40% less fuel by running on solar power while in space and by fine-tuning exhaust velocity.
The key to the engine improvements is the ability to optimize the use of available power. A traditional chemical rocket engine (attached to a...
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NANO 50â„¢ AWARDS -DEADLINE EXTENSION
Nanotech Briefs(R) magazine is now accepting nominations for its third annual Nano 50 awards competition. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50
technologies, innovators, and products with the greatest potential to advance the commercialization of nanotechnology.
There is no cost to submit a...
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Natural-Gas Autos
Researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at a density of 180 times their own volume and at one- seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. The briquettes are the first technology to meet the 180 to 1 storage to volume target set by the U.S. Department of...
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Disposable Sensor
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory instruments.According to the researchers, the sensor provides a fast, on-site test for assessing uranium...
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Tech Needs
A fluorescent coating is needed to alter emitted wavelength from UV LEDs.
The goal of this project is to create a white light source with a uniform spectral output. Due to size and power constraints, LEDs are the preferred light source.
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NASA NEWS
According to a recent report based on some of the first observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, fluids that flowed through cracks penetrating underground rock on ancient Mars may have produced conditions to support possible habitats for microbial life.
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Robotic Exoskeleton
Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M, Ann Arbor, MI) developed a robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system that could help users regain limb function. Healthy subjects first wore the exoskeleton to measure how the device affected ankle function before researchers tested the device on disabled...
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Viral Traps
Biologists at Yale University (New Haven, CT) are developing a process to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction. Viruses are chemically lured into the wrong cells, thus preventing virus reproduction and alleviating disease. The research was conducted on phi-6 virus populations in environments containing different...
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TECHNOLOGIES OF THE WEEK
Three families of liquid-crystal polyester are available that can be used in the form of shaped articles, and can be prepared from the melt phase by extrusion, injection molding, compression molding, or other convenient means.
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Analog Circuits
Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised new analog circuits that will not drain power or create bottlenecks like previous models. The new class of analog circuits eliminates operational amplifiers while maintaining virtually all benefits of operational-amplifier-based circuits. The MIT circuits...
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Steering Unit
Case New Holland (CNH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has lessened the level of steering noise in the cabs of its 821 Case brand and LW190 brand wheel loaders by utilizing Char-Lynn Series 20 steering control unit from Eaton Hydraulics (Eden Prairie, MN). The cab noise issue was great enough to hold the assembly line while the matter...
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Moth Gyroscopes
A joint effort between University of Washington (Seattle, WA) and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) researchers has revealed gyroscope-like structures in tobacco horn moth antennae that could lead to mechanical equivalents for miniature flying robots. The discovery allows the researchers to understand neural...
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Nano 50â„¢ Awards
Nanotech Briefs magazine is now accepting nominations for its third annual Nano 50 awards competition. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products with the greatest potential to advance the commercialization of nanotechnology.
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Event Alert
Free Webinar: Join us and other engineering professionals at the "Adobe and Alibre Technology Seminar" on Wednesday, February 28. Alibre, Inc. and Adobe Inc. are coming together to provide an informative online seminar that reviews how other leading-edge companies have used new and affordable technology to redefine their design...
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Current Attractions
The Air Force's Technology Horizons magazine is now Defense Tech Briefs (DTB),providing engineers with a one-stop source for the latest advances and tech transfer opportunities from Defense Department R&D programs. Commercially promising inventions resulting from this work are reported in DTB magazine, published...
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Tech Needs
Technologies are needed for the economical production of polymers that are based on today's generally accepted standards for "green" chemistry. Of particular interest are chemistries that produce safe chemicals, and/or that use safer solvents and auxiliaries, and/or that produce chemicals designed for degradation.
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X-Ray Vision
Brown University researchers are creating a technology that will allow doctors and scientists to see inside living humans and animals, and watch their bones move in 3D as they run, fly, jump, swim, and slither. This high-resolution, high-speed imaging system will contribute to better treatments for knee, shoulder, wrist, and back...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Medical Imaging System Enables Real-Time Diagnostics
A partnership between the Toshiba Imaging Systems Division of Toshiba America (Irvine, CA) and Apollo Telemedicine (Falls Church, VA) has resulted in an advanced, real-time diagnostic...
Articles: Imaging
Choosing the Right Camera Bus
Machine vision acquisition architectures come in many different forms, but they all have the same end goal — to transfer image data from a physical sensor into a processing unit that can analyze the image and...
Articles: Imaging
FLCOS Technology: Enabling a New Generation of Display-Based Products
The multi-billion-dollar display market has grown to encompass everything from notebook PCs to desktop monitors, televisions, cell phone displays, and much more. As the...
Who's Who: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Ginger N. Flores, LOCAD Project Manager, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Diagnosis on Earth is a fairly simple procedure, done at any hospital or medical center. In space flight, however, where doctors and even basic...
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