Photonics & Imaging

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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: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Briefs: Materials
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
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Briefs: Automotive
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Special light sources and sensors see around corners or through gauzy filters, enabling reconstruction of the shapes of unseen objects.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Apps could take up less space on a smartphone and apps could download instantly.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Researchers at Purdue University have been working to develop new technologies to help stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, which kill 3,000 people a year, by detecting them more...
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INSIDER: Imaging
Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different...
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INSIDER Product: Imaging
Final Vision Inspection (FVI) SystemCyberOptics® Corporation (Minneapolis, MN) has launched the Multi-Reflection Suppression™ (MRS™)-enabled 3D MX3000 Final Vision Inspection (FVI) system for memory modules. The launch extends...
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INSIDER: Imaging
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron...
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Unmanned Systems - March 2020
The latest advances in aerial, ground, and underwater unmanned systems are covered in this special report, a compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology.

Articles: Electronics & Computers
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
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Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Briefs: Software
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
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Articles: Imaging
There are longwave, midwave, and shortwave camera systems—each with its own advantages for specific industries and uses.
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Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Vision-based convolutional neural network system detects phone usage, eating, and drinking.
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Technology Leaders: Imaging
Different line scan prism manufacturers might compare two possible curves in their advertising and argue that the steeper flanks should enable better color reproduction with greater selectivity.
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Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
CT vs. structured light scanning — See which option is best for you.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The NASA study is a first step in developing a model to deploy in future disasters.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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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Blog: Test & Measurement
“We’re analyzing rocks from space, atom by atom,” says researcher Jennika Greer.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A team of engineers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has boosted the performance of its previously developed 3D inductor technology by adding as much as three orders...
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