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INSIDER: Lighting Technology
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are an unsung hero of the lighting industry. They run efficiently, give off little heat, and last for a long time. Now scientists are looking at new materials to make...
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Products: Transportation
Automotive camera monitors, curved CMOS sensors, fiber lasers, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
An entire 20-story concrete building could store energy like a giant battery.
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Briefs: Transportation
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
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Briefs: Lighting
The micro-display could enable smartphones and televisions with resolutions of more than 10,000 pixels per inch.
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Briefs: Imaging
Researchers are tapping into dynamically controlled LEDs to create a simple illumination system for 3D imaging.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The material could enable cheaper and more environmentally friendly displays and large-area lighting.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Invisible displays on walls and windows would be bright when turned on but invisible when turned off.
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INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Spectrophotometer for a Microscope CRAIC Technologies (San Dimas, CA) has introduced the 508 PV™ UV-visible-NIR spectrophotometer for your microscope. The 508 Perfect Vision™ is designed to be added to an open photoport of a...
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INSIDER: Lighting
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers evaluated commercial ultraviolet (UV) sources for viral disinfection to combat COVID-19 on land and at sea and established a...
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INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich succeeded in developing a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can even be applied to textiles. This opens up numerous possibilities for...
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Creating next-generation LEDs for novel efforts like COVID-19 decontamination requires LED manufacturers to reevaluate the materials that they’re using.
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Articles: Wearables
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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Q&A: Test & Measurement
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
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Briefs: Lighting
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
High-speed cameras, ultra-stable mounts, automated inspection systems, and more...
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
There’s been a race to the top among industrial LED lighting manufacturers as they scramble to squeeze the maximum possible lumens per watt (LPW) out of their products.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
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5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Vision-based 3D printing, network analyzers, particulate sensors, and more.
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Articles: Lighting
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Perovskites Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
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Application Briefs: Communications
Facility managers, real estate owners, as well as commercial and industrial businesses are looking to deploy IoT.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These thin films hold great promise for solar cells and LEDs.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
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Briefs: Lighting
Recovery of Mercury and Rare Earth Elements from Fluorescent Lamp Phosphors
This method will enable safer fluorescent light recycling.

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