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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The competition has attracted...
Articles: Software
Software and hardware design, development, and testingUnisysBlue Bell, PA215-986-4011www.unisys.com
NASA has chosen Unisys to provide application...
Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Beam waveguide antennasGeneral Dynamics SATCOMTechnologiesNewton, NC828-464-4141www.gdsatcom.com
General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been chosen by NASA s Jet...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Single-frequency semiconductor laserRedfern Integrated Optics (RIO)Santa Clara, CA408-970-3500www.rio-inc.com
NASA has chosen Redfern Integrated Optics to further develop a single-frequency,...
Products
Juniper Systems, Logan, UT, has introduced the Mesa Geo 3G Rugged Notepad™ that offers Bluetooth® wireless technology, Wi-Fi®, 2-5 meter accuracy GPS, 3.2MP digital camera, and a 3G GSM cellular data modem that...
NASA Tech Needs
Bright light from sources such as the Earth or bright stars is scattered on surfaces of scientific instruments and creates noise in scientific observations. All scientific instruments have baffles,...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Dr. Jacqueline Quinn is an environmental engineer with NASA’s Surface Systems Office at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 2005,...
Products: Energy
Fairchild Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has developed an optimized power MOSFET, the UniFET™ II MOSFET, which features an improved body diode, reduced switching losses, and the capability of...
Products: Energy
iWatt, Inc. (Los Gatos, CA) released two primary-side-regulated, leading- and trailing-edge-dimmable, AC/DC Digital PWM Controllers targeting 100V/230VAC offline LED lighting applications.
Products: Energy
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, NY) introduces a compact (6.3 in X 4.6 in), multi-channel Solid-State Power Controller card with the capability to distribute and control power to four independent 75 Amp...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The operator’s paradox for the past several years has been that while there is an explosion in data traffic volumes to the tune of 45-65% yearly, the corresponding revenue growth is in the single digits at best. To...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
MICROMO (Clearwater, FL) offers the series 2232/2250 BX4 CSD/CCD compact drive and integrated motion controller from Faulhaber. The series incorporates the BX4 four-pole brushless technology with a single-axis motion...
Research News: Lighting
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Keon Jae Lee, a professor in KAIST's Department of Materials Science and...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
NovaTorque (Sunnyvale, CA) offers Premium Plus+ electric motors in 2 and 3 HP @ 1800 RPM as a motor system paired with a variable frequency drive, or as standalone motors. The 2-HP version has a full-load rated efficiency of...
Articles: Lighting
Solid-state lighting (SSL) is rapidly emerging as a major segment of the lighting fixture industry. What was once a simple electrical device has now been...
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Dunkermotoren USA (Elgin, IL) has introduced the BG75 series modular brushless permanent magnet motors driven by an integrated servo motor drive. The series is composed of 2.95" squared high-power-density motors in three...
Articles: Lighting
Solid-state lighting (SSL) has been identified as a technology innovation that can significantly impact the future of lighting solutions that will meet new U.S. energy efficiency standards for...
Application Briefs: Lighting
The lighting needs at the 460,000-square foot headquarters facility of Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc., a food distributor serving customers in 35 states, were recently re-evaulated. Like...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Motion Components Optimize Performance of Liquid Chromatography System
Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, and environmental industries to make important breakthroughs faster and...
Application Briefs: Lighting
A Manchester, NH T.J.Maxx shopping plaza parking lot has been retrofitted with BetaLED luminaires. CBT Development of Greenland, NH was incurring high costs for parking lot maintenance from frequent...
Techs for License: Lighting
The given technology involves a novel method in achieving high-efficiency group III-nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes emitting in the visible regime...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Spectra-Physics® (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the world’s first 5 Watt, all-inone green Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser that combines the laser head and electronics into a single,...
Techs for License: Lighting
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a novel organic light-emitting diode (OLED) architecture that reduces the number of individual layers in the device without...
Products: Lighting
The Honeycomb™ LED Chip from Verticle, Inc. (Dublin, CA) is a vertically-structured LED chip developed for high-power LED applications. A wafer can yield 15% more hexagonal chips than square or rectangular chips of...
Products: Lighting
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has developed 6-inch diameter GaN (gallium nitride) substrates to be used for white LEDs. The front face of the GaN substrates is a polarized c-plane. Polarity refers to a...
Products: Lighting
The K1 Kyropoulos Crystal Grower from Thermal Technology (Santa Rosa, CA) is suitable for LED substrate production. The 90 kg crystal grower features multiple, independently-controlled heating elements, weight sensors to...
Products: Lighting
Monocrystal (Stavropol, Russia) has introduced ultra-large 10-inch c-plane epi-ready sapphire substrates. The LED industry continues shifting to larger diameter substrates as it strives to achieve higher cost savings...
Products: Lighting
The UX4-LEDs projection exposure system from USHIO America, Inc. (Cypress, CA) is for manufacturing LED chips. The system allows full-field exposure of 6-inch wafers while preventing wafer warpage or distortion —...
Products: Lighting
Intematix (Fremont, CA) has introduced two LED phosphor families: green aluminate and red nitride materials that enable high-quality white illumination when applied to blue LEDs. The phosphor families...
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