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Semicon West Moves to October 2024
A fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 50 years, SEMICON West is moving to Phoenix for a five-year annual rotation starting in 2025 and shifting from its longstanding July event dates to October beginning in... -
TKH Vision Group Opens Vision Solution Center for Integrated Machine Vision
TKH Vision, a group of machine vision companies and part of the TKH Group, announced the official opening of the TKH Vision Solution Center in Konstanz, Germany. The TKH Vision Solution Center will serve as a demonstration... -
Accumold Makes Further Investment in Atomic Force Microscopy
Micro molding innovator Accumold has just announced a further investment in its micro additive manufacturing (AM) capability having just finalised the purchase of a second Fabrica 2.0 machine from Nano Dimension. The continued... -
BitFlow Identifies Machine Vision Trends for 2023
Machine vision acts as the eyes of the factory, leveraging imaging technology to capture visual information for analysis and rapid decision making. The most common uses of machine vision are for the detection of defects, sorting... -
LOXO Selects Lidar for Autonomous, Zero-Emission Delivery Vehicles
Innoviz Technologies, a technology leader of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, announced today that Switzerland-based LOXO, a provider of zero-emission autonomous vehicles for... -
Extech Merged into Flir
The Extech online store and website are now part of FLIR.com, providing one location to find product information, supporting content, downloads, and other customer support for all professional test and measurement needs. Merging... -
Global Image Sensor Market Forecast to Grow Nearly 11% through 2030
The global image sensors market was calculated at ~US$17.6 billion in 2020. The market forecasts to reach ~US$48 billion in revenue by 2030 by registering a compound annual growth rate of 10.7% during the forecast period from...
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Applications for Continuously Variable Filters
Antonio Castelo, EPIC’s Technology Manager for Bio-Medical and Lasers, spoke with Poul Svensgaard, CEO of Delta Optical Thin Film, to learn about the market for continuous variable filters. Delta Optical is a Danish developer, and... -
Precitec Sees a Bright Future in Laser Welding Systems
Precitec is a global leader in high-end laser cutting solutions, especially in China, where the company employs 200 people. In laser welding, Precitec is engaged in additive manufacturing, producing intelligent processing heads and welding... -
Pulse Laser Antireflective Surface Treatments
In this article, Panagiotis Vergyris, EPIC’s former Photonics Technology Manager talks with Emmanuel Stratakis, Research Director at FORTH-IESL and CEO at Biomimetic, a Greece-based company specialising in pulse laser antireflective... -
Implementing Photonics in Products and Services
RABUS.TECH is a Germany consultancy that specializes in enabling companies to implement photonics technologies into their products and services. Carlos Lee, EPIC’s Director General, spoke with Dominik Rabus, CEO of RABUS.TECH, about the... -
Ceramic Processing for Opto-Electronics
Mintres BV works with diamond, aluminium nitride (AlN) and aluminium oxide (AlOx) and supplies the electronics and opto-electronics industries and research institutions, high energy physics and other scientific communities, flat panel screen... -
Photonics in Finland: The making of a technology cluster
Finland’s photonics industry is currently worth around €1.2 billion a year and employs 4,200 people. Of the 260 companies working in photonics, 60 (30%) have been created since 2016 and our key photonics competences are optical... -
Consulting on Manufacturing, Management and Engineering of Optical Systems
In this article, Jérémy Picot-Clémente, EPIC’s Photonics Technologies Program Manager, talks with Ralf Leutz, General Manager at LEOPIL, a consultancy in manufacturing, management and engineering of high end optical...
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Vector Photonics Names Peter Linton Factory Applications Engineer
Peter Linton has joined Vector Photonics as Factory Applications Engineer. Peter will provide a technical interface between the company’s global NEM (Network Equipment Manufacturer) customers and its Research & Development team in... -
SPIE's 2023 Society Awards
The Awards Committee of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards. Honoring transformative advancements in a variety of professional areas — including... -
SPIE, The International Society For Optics And Photonics, Announces Its 2023 Fellows
This year, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomes 83 Members as new Fellows of the Society. They join their Fellow Member colleagues in being honored for their technical achievements, as well as for their service to... -
New Chair GenICam Standard Working Group elected
During the last International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) in Tokyo/Japan the GenICam Working Group has elected Michael Schmidt as new Chair of the Standard Working Group. Michael Schmidt leads a camera development team at Basler AG. He takes... -
Brendan McBennett 2023 Recipient of Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship
Brendan McBennett is the 2023 recipient of the $10,000 Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Siemens EDA — formerly Mentor, a Siemens company — for... -
Indium Names Shital Rijal as Product Specialist
In this role, Rijal supports the high-purity metals, compounds, and alloys business, focusing on growth for indium, gallium, germanium, and tin-containing products. He serves as an informational resource to both internal and external stakeholders... -
Prof Frank Koppens named American Physical Society Fellow for 2022
ICREA Prof at ICFO Dr Frank Koppens was elected as fellow of the American Physical Society for 2022 for his “pioneering work in the science and applications of 2D material optoelectronics, quantum photonics, and nano-photonics.This...
