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Articles: Photonics/Optics
Few technologies have impacted the scientific community – and non-scientific community for that matter – as much as digital imaging technology. From exotic, high-speed imaging systems to rugged...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Navigation and entertainment screens in cars are becoming ever-larger and, in some cases, the central control point for drivers and passengers. Many manufacturers consider using glass to cover the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Specialised Imaging (Herts., UK), working in conjunction with Cavitar (Tampere, Finland), has announced the SI LUX640 laser illumination system, designed to improve the accuracy and sensitivity of...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics®, (Santa Clara, CA), a Newport company, recently introduced Quasar 355-60, a UV laser that offers a groundbreaking >60 W with high >300 μJ pulse energies. Featuring TimeShiftTM technology for...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Melles Griot (Carlsbad, CA) has introduced the OEM Monolithic Light Engine. The light engine can shake, rattle, and ship without needing to be realigned. The hermetically sealed design, combined with a patented...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Portable Power Systems (St. Louis, MO) has introduced the new PPS-90-125OEMDPC laser diode driver. The PPS series of OEM laser diode drivers will operate from 1-45 diodes or bars in either the Pulsed or CW mode. Added...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The Optoelectronics Company (Hertfordshire, UK) has launched a range of direct emission 520nm green laser diode modules which offer OEMs and system integrators a cost and energy-efficient alternative to low-tech DPSS...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Pangolin Laser Systems, Inc. (Orlando, FL) are now offering their patented LASORB component in an SMT form. LASORB is a hybrid electronic device that consists of passive electrical and active silicon components...
Products: Photonics/Optics
CRAIC Technologies (San Dimas, CA) recently announced Spectral Surface MappingTM (S2MTM) capabilities for its UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometers. S2MTM gives CRAIC microspectrometer users the ability to map...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Forza Silicon (Pasadena, CA) has introduced the Forza 100+ MP CAM Platform featuring a customizable CMOS image sensor operating at 60 frames per second (fps) and supporting multiple camera resolutions. The dual-mode...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Edmund Optics® (EO) (Barrington, NJ) recently introduced its new TECHSPEC® Precision Sapphire Windows. These windows are ideal for use in a wide variety of demanding applications, including imaging and spectroscopy, as they...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Sierra-Olympic Technologies, Inc. (Hood River, OR) recently introduced the Vinden CZ 320 continuous zoom thermal chassis camera. The first of two camera models in the series, the Vinden CZ 320 is offered in both 60 Hz and...
Products
MSC Software Corp., Newport Beach, CA, has introduced the MSC Apex computer-aided engineering (CAE) platform, a Computational Parts-based CAE system. The platform enables predictive product development in the earlier stages...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
Articles: Materials
Epoxies are versatile polymer systems that are “go-to materials” for electrical, electronic, and microelectronic systems, especially in applications where outstanding electrical insulation...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NI PXI DMM and NI PXI multifunction DAQ module National Instruments Austin, TX 1-800-531-5066 www.ni.com
Larger than the Saturn V rocket and designed to eventually...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Behrokh Khoshnevis University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Contour Crafting (CC) is a computerized construction method that 3D prints large-scale structures directly from...
Articles: Aerospace
The Polariton Interferometer — A Novel Inertial Navigation System
Frederick Moxley Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rikki Razdan, Alan Kielar, Pat Stearns, and Melissa White ISCAN Inc. Woburn, MA
The intrinsic speed and precision of the human ocular-motor system makes the eye an...
Articles: Automotive
Steve Arnold Engine Systems Innovations, Inc. Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Passenger car engines are sized to produce very high horsepower to suit the consumer’s demand...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Michael Zach, Anirudha Sumant, and Jonathan Moritz EChem Nanowires Stevens Point, WI
NanoFab Lab … In a Box!™ is a shoebox-sized kit that allows high school students to...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
A Paradigm Shift for SMT Electronics: Micro-Coil Springs Interconnection for Ceramic and Plastic Grid Array Packaged Integrated Circuits
Jim Hester and Mark Strickland NASA Marshall...
Articles: Medical
HemeChip for Early Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease
Yunus Alapan, Ryan Ung, Megan Romelfanger, Asya Akkus, Connie Piccone, Jane Little, and Umut Gurkan Case Western Reserve University...
Articles: Energy
ecovent Systems — Make Every Room the Right Temperature
Dipul Patel, Yoel Kelman, Nick Lancaster, Shawn Rose, and Brian Bowen ecovent Systems Boston, MA
Most homes...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2014 Create the Future Design Contest
The 2014 Create the Future Design Contest – sponsored by COMSOL, Inc., Mouser Electronics, and Tech Briefs Media Group (publishers of NASA Tech Briefs) – recognized innovation in product design in seven categories: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive/Transportation, Consumer Products, Electronics,...
Who's Who: Photonics/Optics
Jason Moore has worked at NASA Langley since 1995. He currently tests and develops fiber optic technologies, including multicore fibers. He is actively...
Products: Information Technology
National Instruments, Austin, TX, has introduced the NI VirtualBench that combines five instruments in one device: a mixed-signal oscilloscope, a digital multimeter, a function generator, a programmable DC power supply, and...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Contemporary industrial automation control systems are employing variable frequency drives (VFDs) in ever-increasing numbers. VFDs give control engineers...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Today’s PCB plug-in connectors must accommodate many trends, including increasing miniaturization, rising levels of performance of electronic components, and growing complexity in machine...
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Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
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This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
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