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Products: Energy
Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) introduces the bq24210, a Li-ion linear charger targeted at space-limited portable applications. The high input voltage range with input over-voltage protection supports low-cost...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In a new series, the editors of NASA Tech Briefs magazine catch up with everyday engineers about their unique responsibilities and challenges. This week, we highlight fellow reader...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In a new series, the editors of NASA Tech Briefs magazine catch up with everyday engineers about their unique responsibilities and challenges. This week, we highlight fellow...
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
As production rates and quality standards continue to increase, manufacturers require motion control solutions that effectively perform at higher speeds, and provide better...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets is carried out using machines that appear, at first sight, to be very simple. First, a die is filled with the correct amount...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The Hall effect can be observed when the combination of a magnetic field through a sample and a current along the length of the sample create an...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Heat exchanger coilsSuper Radiator CoilsChaska, MN952-556-3330superradiatorcoils.com
A 25-foot-high wall of heat exchanger coils manufactured by Super Radiator Coils will replace the...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Laser Systems Will Enable NASA Satellite to Measure Sea Ice
Flight lasers and test laserFibertekHerndon, VA703-471-7671www.fibertek.com
Managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is scheduled to launch in 2016. The satellite will replace the original ICESat...
Articles: Materials
In direct response to the National Research Council’s report “Capabilities for the Future: An Assessment of NASA Laboratories for Basic Research, 2010,” the Space Technology program was born and formally approved by...
Who's Who: Aerospace
As NASA’s associate administrator for education, Leland Melvin is responsible for the development and implementation of the agency's education programs...
Research News: Lighting
A Rensselaer research team led by Christian Wetzel, a professor of physics, etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between a light-emitting diode’s (LED) sapphire base and the layer...
Articles: Lighting Technology
Partly due to rising environmental concerns and the increasing cost of energy, the industrialized world is now replacing billions of conventional incandescent light fixtures. While a significant...
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Xenics, Leuven, Belgium, has introduced the Meerkat series of infrared (IR) cameras that enable the true fusion of images from different spectral ranges. The IR camera configurations cover all the...
Articles: Lighting
Because light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are a current-driven DC device, they require a converter so they can be powered from an AC voltage. LED drivers have different operating characteristics from the...
Application Briefs: Lighting
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Regensburg, Germany
FormoLight Technologies, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Particularly compact Multi CHIPLEDs developed by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors raise the image quality in FormoLight Technologies'...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Luminus Devices, Billerica, MA
Aiptek, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Luminus Devices is powering Aiptek’s new Pocket-Cinema V50 Projector, a small projector enabling instant projection for business presentations, photo sharing,...
Techs for License: Lighting
Flexible, transparent, conducting coatings are of high commercial value in low-cost, flexible photovoltaic cells and large electronic LED displays. Currently, the carbon nanotubes...
Products: Lighting Technology
The 308 FPD™ spectrophotometer from CRAIC Technologies (San Dimas, CA) measures and compares the spectral output, intensity, and color consistency of each of the microscopic pixels commonly found in organic...
Products: Lighting Technology
Stellarnet (Tampa, FL) introduces the BLACK-Comet-HR concave grating spectrometer. Designed for high-resolution applications, the new BLACK-Comet-HR spectrometer is available for measurements in two ranges —...
Products: Lighting Technology
The Universal LightProbes from Optomistic Products (South Freeport, ME) are small, highly versatile sensors and fiber-optic probes for reliable LED test. Universal LightProbe LED sensors combined with a wide range of fiber-optic...
Products: Lighting Technology
Keithley Instruments (Cleveland, OH) has introduced the model 2651A high-power system SourceMeter® instrument. The model 2651A provides a wide current range that is critical for a variety of reliability and production...
Products: Lighting Technology
Phoseon Technology (Hillsboro, OR) introduces a family of ultraviolet (UV) LED radiometer products that provide customers a simple, reliable way to measure and maintain their UV LED light sources. The radiometers are optimized...
Products: Lighting
The ISP 2000 integrating sphere from Instrument Systems (Munich, Germany) has been specifically designed with a diameter of 1.9 meters to facilitate precise measurement of total radiant power and luminous flux of lamps,...
Products: Lighting
Heraeus Noblelight (Hanau, Germany) introduces the NobleProbe®, a UV LED meter that can be used to take precise measurements of irradiance in the near-UV range. NobleProbe is designed to determine irradiance within a wide...
Products: Lighting
ZEMAX (Bellevue, WA) and Radiant Imaging (Redmond, WA) introduce the latest version of their imaging light and color measurement system software. New features include 64-bit support, a new database structure,...
Products: Lighting
B&W Tek (Newark, DE) announces the updated i-Spec™ portable spectrophotometer. The i-Spec is a portable spectrophotometer system equipped with silicon and InGaAs array detectors, allowing it to measure from as...
Articles: Medical
In a new series, the editors of NASA Tech Briefs magazine catch up with everyday engineers about their unique responsibilities and challenges. This week, we highlight fellow...
Products: Transportation
Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo, Japan) recently introduced a transfer molded power module (T-PM) designed for hybrid and electric vehicle applications. The J-Series T-PM, incorporating proprietary technology that...
Products: Energy
Synopsys, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) introduces version 7.2 of its LightTools® illumination design and analysis software with features that will help users graphically analyze simulation results, compute...
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