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Your destination for advances in imaging systems, machine vision, visualization software, and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) technologies. Design engineers can access news, technical briefs, applications, and product developments.

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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers are using a standard RGB digital camera to accurately monitor soil moisture.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automotive camera monitors, curved CMOS sensors, fiber lasers, and more.
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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Learn about a membrane-free, broadband microphone for the highest ultrasound frequencies.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
A new high-speed sensor pushes the boundaries in light-starved conditions.
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Briefs: Materials
Northwestern researchers have developed a new microscopy method that allows scientists to see the building blocks of “smart” materials.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
With an optical microscope, spectra can be acquired from a sample area smaller than a micron.
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Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Learn how to fix one of the more annoying problems in display imaging.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel nanostructure produces uniquely shaped light.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
To modernize optical storage, Purdue researchers are replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters.”
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The ultra-compact, wearable hologram sensor immediately notifies the user of volatile gas detection.
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Articles: Imaging
Water-sensing smartphone screens, a NASA-developed RF switch, and an ultrasound patch.
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Products: Semiconductors & ICs
Power distribution units, pressure sensors, connector straps, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These antennas dramatically increase the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a coherent light source.
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UpFront: Communications
NASA Washing Machine Designs Go for a Spin Right now, there is no laundry service in space. Astronaut garments aren’t washed. They are put onto ships that burn up in the atmosphere. At NASA Glenn,...
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Briefs: Motion Control
Exoskeleton legs are capable of thinking and making control decisions on their own using artificial intelligence technology.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These tactile imaging sensors can measure pressure distribution without using pressure-sensitive materials.
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Special Reports: AR/AI
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Aerospace Manufacturing - August 2021
Demanding applications in the aerospace industry require products and systems that are manufactured using the latest technologies – from design and simulation, to fabrication and final testing. To help...

Articles: Transportation
A new COVID test, a "ChromoUpdate," and NASA's brake rotor.
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Briefs: Imaging
The technology potentially enables a new generation of miniaturized electronic and optoelectronic devices.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
The Earth Imaging Spectrometer instrument is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022.
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INSIDER: Imaging
Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving?
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INSIDER: Imaging
Labsphere, Inc. announced plans to locate a Field Line of sight Automated Radiance Exposure (FLARE) testing site at Arizona State University's (ASU) Polytechnic campus as part...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
The demand for detecting infrared (IR) light, invisible to human eyes, is constantly growing, due to a wide variety of applications ranging from food quality control and remote sensing to...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Autofocus, Waterproof Lenses Edmund Optics® (EO) (Barrington, NJ) offers the TECHSPEC® LT Series and TECHSPEC® Cw Series fixed focal length lenses. TECHSPEC® LT Series fixed focal length lenses combine an integrated liquid...
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
With the help of 12 antennas, Fabio da Silva's m-Widar can spot — and image — objects hidden behind a wall.
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Machine Vision/Camera Advances - July 2021
Advances in cameras and image sensors are transforming the factory floor, while also enabling exciting new applications in space robotics, medicine, and more. Read all about it in this compendium of...

Facility Focus: Materials
Duke Engineering supports clinical ultrasound imaging, restoration of hearing by cochlear implant, megapixel photography, and metamaterials.
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Products: Imaging
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
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Articles: Imaging
Resolution is an often discussed but seldom understood value in the world of 3D printing and additive manufacturing.
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