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Advanced packaging: At the heart of innovation
The semiconductor industry showed impressive figures in 2017: +21.6% YoY growth to reach about US$ 412 billion. Without any doubt, the industry is entering a new age, where innovation and disruption are the key words. In... -
IR Endoscope Improves Process Safety
Resolve Optics has developed and supplied an Infrared (IR) endoscope to enable safe monitoring of the glass vitrification process within a radioactive waste processing plant using a thermal camera. The processing... -
Laser World of Photonics 2019: Focus on electro-mobility
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2019 showcases photonics for a new era of mobility Laser processes and optical inline inspection are key technologies for affordable and reliable electro-mobility Strong global growth to 2030 With... -
Autonomous Smart Drones Optimize Solar Farms
As the solar industry has grown, so have some of its inefficiencies. Smart entrepreneurs see those inefficiencies as business opportunities and try to create solutions around them. Such is the nature of a maturing industry. One... -
Quantifying Methane Leaks and Flares from Oil and Gas Operations
FLIR Systems reports on how its GF-Series Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) cameras can be used by the oil and gas industry to quantitatively measure methane emissions and create a datum point for future methane reduction... -
Framos CMOS Hands-On Training Debuts in London
For the first time, the Framos hands-on training "Characterization of a CMOS camera" will be held in the UK in London on 26 and 27 March 2019. In this practical two-day course, the expert Prof Dr Albert Theuwissen will... -
Autonomous Robots Carry Out First Long-Term Missions Under Antarctic Ice
A team of autonomous ocean robots deployed in January 2018 has carried out the first year-long observations under an Antarctic ice shelf. The robots, turned loose under the Dotson Ice Shelf, repeatedly reached as far...
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New CoaXPress Standard Boasts a Host of Benefits
The CoaXPress (CXP) standard is a camera-to-computer interface that has dominated the high speed vision systems market over the past several years. The result of work performed initially by a consortium of companies including Adimec, EqcoLogic,... -
MEMS Mirrors for Optical Coherence Tomography and Confocal Microscopy
Biomedical imaging and its numerous modalities such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), multiphoton imaging, confocal microscopy, and light sheet microscopy have been greatly enhanced by optical beam steering technologies. A breakthrough... -
The Applications Driving the Growth of Lithography Markets
Megatrend applications like 5G wireless technologies, electric vehicles, and advanced mobile devices demand miniaturization and extra functionality. Therefore, fabricating the next More than Moore (MtM) device generation requires tools with new... -
Medical Products Inspected with Deep Neural Networks
Inspecting containers of medicinal products for defects is vitally important to ensure that they meet the demanding quality requirements of a manufacturer prior to shipment. While such inspection was originally carried out manually, today highly... -
Industrial Robots at Work
Advances in technology increase the application of industrial robots, resulting in tremendous market growth. Robots are more capable and easier to use than ever before. The evolutionary advances made in software make it easy to “teach”... -
Better Bonding Assured by Vision
Bonding materials with adhesives might appear to be a relatively straightforward manufacturing process. However, ensuring the reliability of the bonds that are formed between materials is of paramount importance, especially in the automotive and... -
Variable Filters Optimize Design of Spectrometer
As the result of a joint 1.3 million Euro Eurostars Optitune research project, design engineers at Edinburgh Instruments developed a novel grating-based fluorescence spectrometer whose performance has been enhanced by the use of linear...
