Products

Parallel Gripper

SCHUNK Inc. (Morrisville, NC) has expanded its EGN series of servo electric two-finger parallel grippers to include sizes 80 and 160 in addition to the existing size 100. The new sizes have a stroke per finger of 8 and 16...

Product of the Month: IR Panoramic Camera

HGH Infrared Systems (Cambridge, MA) has introduced the IR Revolution 360, a 20° vertical, 360° horizontal field of view (FOV) panoramic infrared camera for security and surveillance. The sensor...

Camera Processor

Toshiba Teli America, Inc. (Irvine, CA) has introduced the SmartDragon™ image processor that can connect and simultaneously receive data from up to four FireWire-B (IEEE1394.b) color or black-and-white cameras. The...

Cameras with Auto and Averaging Features

Basler (Ahrensburg, Germany) has implemented enhanced features on their Scout and Pilot series cameras. The Auto Features Suite controls several camera functions such as gain, exposure, and white balance...

Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope

FEI Company (Hillsboro, OR) has released the TitanTM 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). The Titan ETEM is suitable for chemical research at the atomic scale, and studying...

Low Energy LEDs

SCHOTT (Southbridge, MA) has introduced the KL 200 LED Series cold light engine and the EasyLED Ringlight plus stereo microscopy lamp. The low energy consuming lighting solutions are ideal for industrial, biological lab, and...

White LEDs

Luminus Devices (Billerica, MA) has added white LEDs to its PhlatLight® LED line. The white LEDs feature large chip sizes, photonic lattice technology for maximum light extraction, and advanced PhlatLight packaging to provide good...

MEMS 3D Micro-Mirrors

AMS Technologies (Martinsried, Germany) now offers MEMS 3D micro-mirrors from Sercalo Microtechnology Ltd. The micro-mirrors are used for precise optical beam steering. To avoid an optical feedback loop, the micro-mirror...

Wafer Processing Solution

Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ) has introduced Ultra-Sense™, a complete wafer processing solution. Ultra-Sense combines Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer technology with low-cost, scalable fabrication techniques...

Thin Film PV Scribing System

J. P. Sercel Associates (JPSA) (Manchester, NH) has introduced laser workstations for processing solar thin film photovoltaic (PV) products. The PV-5000 Thin Film PV Scribing System is based on the ChromaDice™...

Laser Workstation

TRUMPF Inc. (Farmington, CT) has announced the Tru-Laser Station 5004, a compact workstation that accommodates manual and semiautomatic laser welding. It comes equipped with an integrated protective hood, inert gas feeder,...

Dual Hot Swap Controller

Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) has introduced the LTC4224, a compact, low voltage Hot Swap™ controller for protecting boards and backplanes that uses two 1V to 6V voltage supplies. The LTC4224 enables...

Specimen Tracking System

Applied Scientific Instrumentation (Eugene, OR) has introduced PhotoTrack, a system specifically designed to solve the problem of tracking a moving specimen. Combined with ASI’s closed-loop DC servo motor stages,...

Multimedia Kit

Moritex (Cambridge, UK) has introduced a multimedia kit for its LightScope industrial endoscopes that includes everything required to perform wide ranging portable inspection and video documentation tasks. The multimedia kit...

Ultra-Thin Silicon Solar Cells Process

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) has developed a new method to produce ~50μm thin crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells. The process involves mechanically initiating and propagating a crack parallel to...

Capacitive Sensor

Balluff, Florence, KY, has introduced a new capacitive sensor line for proximity and level detection applications. The line features more than 250 models in a variety of body styles, sensing ranges, harsh environmental...

Reflective Electro-Absorption Modulator

CIP Technologies (Ipswich, UK) offers a reflective electro-absorption modulator (R-EAM) for applications including 10 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks (PONs). The...

InGaAs Pin Photodiodes

GPD Optoelectronics Corp. (Salem, NH) offers 1.5 mm diameter InGaAs pin photodiodes. The GAP1500 series detectors are available in bare die and packaged form. The photodiodes are available in TO-46 or TO-5 cans with flat...

Lasers

Universal Laser Systems, Inc. (ULS) (Scottsdale, AZ) offers VersaLASER® VLS3.60, VLS4.60, and VLS6.60, a broad range of entry-level, powerful, and versatile laser solutions that can process multiple materials and diverse applications...

System-On-Module Standard

MEN Micro Inc. (Ambler, PA) has announced the ESMexpress® System-On-Module Standard, a new computing standard in development to be the ANSIVITA 59 (RSE Rugged System- On-Module Express) standard. In conjunction...

FPGA Mezzanine Card Module

VMETRO (Houston, TX) has released a FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) module. The ADC510, available in air-cooled and conduction- cooled rugged versions, integrates two 12-bit 500MHz A/D chips for use in DSP...

MCU/iChip Evaluation Board

Connect One™ (San Jose, CA) offers a reference design and a corresponding evaluation board that bring together Microchip's PIC24FJ64GA006 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) for application control, and the CO2128...

1U MicroTCA Platform

The MTC5070 from Performance Technologies (Rochester, NY) is a highly integrated 1U MicroTCA™- compliant platform that can support up to six mid-size, single AdvancedMC™ (AMC) modules. The fully deployable...

Fiber Optic Bus Extension Systems

AIM-USA (St. Omaha, NE) has introduced the new FOMIS and FOL429 fiber optic bus extension systems. The FOMIS (Fiber Optic MILbus Stub Extension) product provides a highly modular and scalable system capable of...

Ruggedized MicroTCA Chassis

Elma Electronic Inc. (Fremont, CA) has introduced a ruggedized ATR chassis for MicroTCA. The MicroTCA chassis is an ARINC 404A Full- Size ATR Long Enclosure, often used in commercial and military aviation. The rugged...

Multi-core Industrial Servers

Kontron (Poway, CA) has released 2U and 4U KISS industrial servers that bring Intel® Core™2 Duo processor performance to PICMG 1.0 based PCI/ISA applications. The ultra quiet (<35 dB) industrial...

In-Camera GigE Board

Pleora Technologies, Ottawa, ON, Canada, has introduced the iPORT NTx-Mini in-camera IP Engine for Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) connectivity. It enables image streaming at the full GigE rate, and features a 42 × 42-mm form...

Wide-VGA Cameras

PixeLINK, Ottawa, ON, Canada, has introduced the PL-B761 monochrome and PL-B762 color wide-VGA cameras that feature a global shutter CMOS sensor providing 60 frames per second at a resolution of 752 × 480 pixels. The 1⁄3"...

Camera Electronics

BAP Image Systems, Fort Worth, TX, offers 100-MHz digital grayscale camera electronics that provide up to 600 dpi resolution, 12-bit processing and image output, adjustable line length, selectable working frequency, and...