Technologies and Processes for Industry 4.0
Making Industry 4.0 or industrial internet of things (IIOT) a reality in any field requires organization-wide changes. We look here at some of the procedures and technologies that need to be... Read More
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TrendForce Analysis of COVID-19 Impact on Global High-Tech Industry
The following analysis shows TrendForce investigations of key component and other downstream technology industries, under the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, with the latest data as of February 14, 2020. Semiconductors Compared... -
SA Photonics Delivers First PilotVision Augmented Reality Display
SA Photonics, a designer and manufacturer of augmented reality (AR) head mounted displays, is pleased to announce the first commercial sale of its PilotVision AR display. The headset-mounted system, designed for commercial... -
Continuing Professional Development Service from Lighting Industry Association
The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) have launched a lighting specific Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Recognition service. The CPD for training and seminars has always been important to the lighting industry, but... -
Palomar Technologies Expands Manufacturing and Facilities
Palomar Technologies, a specialist in total process solutions for advanced photonics and microelectronic device packaging announced that to meet growing customer demand for its solutions around the world, it has moved to a new... -
New Design Challenge: The OFC Hackathon Device Challenge
At Photonics West last week in San Francisco, Califormia (US) Lumerical announced the culmination of their inaugural Photonic Inverse Design Challenge and the immediate start of their next design competition. Throughout the... -
Prisma Photonics Wins Prism Award in Energy Category
Prisma Photonics, a provider of smart monitoring solutions for physical infrastructures, that its next-generation, sensor-free grid monitoring platform was recognized by the 12th annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation... -
Vision China Postponed Due to Coronavirus
The organizers of Vision China announced that the trade show has been postponed. The Shanghai government initiated a first-level response, due to the fierce outbreak of the coronavirus. Show organizers are following the Shanghai... View All
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CyberSANE to Transform Security Incident Detection and Handling
CyberSANE project has been funded by the European Commission as part of its H2020 Programme under the call SU-ICT-01-2019 and topic “Dynamic countering of Cyber-attacks”. The project foresees the development of a system addressing both... -
Organic Photovoltaic Cell with 17% Efficiency and Superior Processability
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells have attracted considerable research interest because of advantages of lightweight, flexibility and low-cost solution processing. With the development of organic photoactive materials, especially the new-emerging... -
Scientists Unlock Low-Cost Material to Shape Light for Industry
Researchers in Australia have found a way to manipulate laser light at a fraction of the cost of current technology. The discovery, published in -
Making Fiber Optic Communications Systems More Energy Efficient
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, recently completed a 5-year research project looking at how to make fibre optic communications systems more energy efficient. Among their proposals are smart, error-correcting data chip... -
Tiny Wireless Devices Cast Light on Brain's Inner Workings
The mammalian brain is the most complex organ in the body, capable of processing thousands of stimuli simultaneously to analyze patterns, predict changes and generate highly measured action. How the brain does all this – within fractions of a... -
Portable Device Detects Foodborne Illness
Foodborne illness hits about one in six people in the United States every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million people in the U.S. get sick due to one or more of 31 recognized pathogens, including... -
Solar Powered Greenhouses
Many greenhouses could become energy neutral by using see-through solar panels to harvest energy – primarily from the wavelengths of light that plants don’t use for photosynthesis. Those are the findings of a new modeling study... View All
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Infrared Cameras Used to Detect Infectious Disease
Infrared Cameras Incorporated (ICI), manufactures P and S Series IR Cameras, which provide accurate skin surface temperature readings from the first 1/1000th inch of epidermal layer; another product, IR Flash Software version 1.0, visualizes... -
Analyzing Bamboo Deformation Mechanisms Using Deben Tensile Stage
Deben, a leading provider of in situ testing stages together with innovative accessories and components for microscopy, reports on how the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford study bamboo using the Deben Microtest to... -
Mikrotron Cameras Provide Video Analysis of Golf Swing
Through the lenses of a machine vision camera might be the last place you'd look to improve your golf swing but don't tell that to Dietmar Erhardt, owner of Classic Club Repair. Located near Nuremberg, Germany, Classic Club Repair is... -
Vislink Technologies Receives Contract Border Protection
Vislink Technologies, Inc. received a $1.3 million contract from a European partner to supply equipment and services for border protection. Vislink Technologies is a specialist in the development and distribution of advanced communication... -
Small Robot Company Scales Up Precision Farming
Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, announced industrial design and manufacture of its first robot fleet in Britain. The initial fleet of 10 robots will be manufactured by Tharsus, the UK advanced machine and... -
Faster CFRP Component Manufacturing with an Ultrashort Pulsed Laser and Robot
Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) components are usually assembled using fasteners. These are typically glued into the CFRP component once it has been cured and drilled. The consortium behind the CarboLase project came up with a new method,... -
Avalanche Photodiodes Map Earth's Surface in Unprecedented Detail
Excelitas Technologies contributed its Avalanche Photodiode technology to NASA’s GEDI instrument currently orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). Excelitas wishes to congratulate NASA and the University of Maryland team led... View All
