CoaXPress Cabling Considerations
Many contemporary industrial vision systems rely on cable/connector assemblies to link cameras to computers. Despite that fact, few systems integrators would claim that specifying such an assembly... Read More
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HUBNER Photonics Opens a Direct Sales Office in USA
HÜBNER Photonics, a division of the German HÜBNER Group, announced the opening of a new direct office in the USA. The new direct office is an expansion of the current Cobolt Inc. office which will essentially be... -
Lasys 2020: June in Stuttgart
LASYS, the international trade fair for laser material processing, will be taking place from 16 to 18 June 2020 in Stuttgart for the 7th time already and will once again be “the place to be(am)”. During one of the... -
EPIC Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Ethernet Alliance
European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) and Ethernet Alliance are mutually motivated in cooperative activities involving industry endorsement of standards and technology roadmaps. The partnership will encourage direct... -
European Machine Vision Forum 2019 Announces Keynote Speakers
The European Machine Vision Forum announces three keynote speakers at the annual event 2019 which takes place 05 - 06 September 2019 in Lyon/France. The first keynote titled "The Future of Image Sensing - More... -
Critical Link Receives Two Innovators Awards at Automate Show 2019
Critical Link, LLC, specialists in image sensor technology, system-on-chip (SoC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designs, vision protocols, and signal processing, received two Innovators Awards, a silver and bronze,... -
Active Silicon Expands in the UK
Active Silicon has announced the opening of its new production and operations facility in Langley, UK, following weeks of fit-out and preparation. The new premises are ideally located close to major motorway networks, within... -
FLIR Completes Strategic Investment in DroneBase
FLIR Systems, Inc. and DroneBase, Inc. announced today that FLIR has made a strategic investment in DroneBase, a global drone operations company that provides businesses access to one of the largest Unmanned Aerial Surveillance... View All
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Tailor-made Materials with Ultrafast Connections
Through magic twist angles and unique energy states, it is possible to design tailor-made, atomically thin materials that could be invaluable for future electronics. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Regensburg... -
Super-Accurate Optical Atomic Clocks Pass Critical Test
Researchers have measured an optical clock’s ticking with record-breaking accuracy while also showing the clock can be operated with unprecedented consistency. These achievements represent a significant step toward demonstrating that the new... -
Increasing Sensitivity in Measurement of Semiconductor Material Quality
The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials. Being able to accurately measure... -
Record Efficiency of 23.2% Achieved with Bifacial PERT Solar Cells
Today, at SiliconPV 2019, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies and partner in EnergyVille, announces that its n-PERT (Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally diffused) solar cells developed... -
Detecting Pollution with a Compact Laser Source
Researchers at EPFL have come up with a new middle infrared light source that can detect greenhouse and other gases, as well as molecules in a person’s breath. The compact system, which resembles a tiny suitcase, contains just two parts: a... -
Using Lasers to Efficiently Recycle Valuable Materials
Since 2015, nine project partners from four countries have been researching how to disassemble electronics and reclaim valuable materials in the EU project "ADIR – Next Generation Urban Mining – Automated Disassembly, Separation... -
At-home Disease Detection Made Possible with Photonics
With nothing more than a photonic chip and an ordinary camera, EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland) researchers have managed to count biomolecules one by one in a small sample and determine their position. Their tiny device – a marriage of... View All
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Building a Legacy to Protect the Night Sky
The Quality Lighting Teaching (QLT) Kit, that was developed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) with grants from the International Astronomical Union and The Optical Society for the cornerstone theme, “Cosmic Light”, of... -
Agrophotovoltaics: High harvesting yield in hot summer of 2018
Over the past two years, the dual use of land for the harvesting of solar electricity and agriculture has been tested in the joint project “Agrophotovoltaics – Resource Efficient Land Use (APV-RESOLA).” On one-third of a hectare... -
Piezo Nanopositioning: A key enabler of super-resolution microscopy
The days of looking down the lens of a microscope are fast being eclipsed by super-resolution microscopy (SRM) that allows researchers to investigate and understand intracellular processes and interactions at a molecular level. Given the... -
Excelitas Avalanche Photodiode Enables Surface Mapping of Bennu Asteroid
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High Precision Laser Cutting of Electrical Steel
In the laser cutting market, it is common to assume that laser power is the dominant factor in determining throughput. And, when cutting straight lines in thick materials, especially at lower tolerances, higher power does deliver faster speed.... -
FarmWise Collaborates With Roush To Manufacture Autonomous Robots
FarmWise and Roush announced today a collaboration to develop and test autonomous vegetable weeders in the state of Michigan (US). The initial contract between FarmWise and Roush includes the development of a dozen of... -
Light-emitting Diodes Replace High-pressure Sodium in the Greenhouse
In Canada, as in other higher latitudes, there is not enough natural light for production of many greenhouse commodities during the darker months of the year. In these regions, it is necessary for growers of year-round commodities to augment their... View All
