Keeping Your Eyes on the Road
We’ve all heard the news reports of drivers of autonomous vehicles falling asleep at the wheel. And while that may be the extreme, it certainly would be human nature to gaze out the window as... Read More
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OSA's Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Award Goes to Headwall Photonics
Headwall Photonics was awarded the Optical Society's 2019 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award for successful development of the state-of-the-art Chlorophyll Fluorescence Sensor for airborne imaging solar-induced... -
Embedded Vision Europe Presents Conference Program
From 24 to 25 October, the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart will once again be the European focus of the embedded vision scene. For two days, the Embedded Vision Europe 2019 (eVe) conference will focus on all aspects... -
Basler Life Sciences Vision Days 2019
From November 18 to 21, Basler AG – the world’s leading manufacturer of industrial cameras – is showing its broad portfolio for Medical & Life Sciences applications for the first time at the Basler Life... -
Photonics Report: Indispensible technology, vital to innovation
Assessing 794 Horizon 2020 projects from 2014 to April 2019 for their photonics content, Tematys has demonstrated the enormous impact on innovation photonics is having in important sectors, like... -
TKH Group NV Completes Acquisition of SVS-Vistek GmbH
TKH has acquired 100% of the shares of SVS-Vistek. With 60 employees, SVS-Vistek realises an annual turnover of about € 20 million. With this acquisition, TKH further strengthens its position in the vision industry. To... -
Smart Production Solutions Exhibition, November in Nuremberg
Despite the challenging economic climate ahead of the SPS anniversary exhibition, the outlook for the trade show is once again very positive and testifies to the importance of the exhibition for smart and digital automation.... -
Quantum Developments and Research at Photonex 2019
Photonex 2019 will have special emphasis on quantum technologies at the Coventry event on the 9th & 10th October 2019. This specialist zone is where visitors can meet research groups who will be demonstrating and... View All
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High-Performance Photovoltaic Cells That Work Indoors
Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimized to convert ambient indoor light to electricity. The power they produce is low, but is probably enough to feed the millions of products that the internet... -
Nanoparticle Breakthrough Could Capture Unseen Light for Solar Energy Conversion
An international team of scientists has demonstrated a breakthrough in the design and function of nanoparticles that could make solar panels more efficient by converting light usually missed by solar cells into usable energy. The team, led by... -
3D-printed Microvalve for Treating Glaucoma
Glaucoma is the world’s second cause of irreversible blindness after cataracts. The World Health Organization estimates that 4.5 million people worldwide are blind due to glaucoma [1]. In some cases, glaucoma is a condition caused by... -
Microscopes Unravel the Mysteries of Brain Organization
The secret of capturing exquisite brain images with a new generation of custom-built microscopes is revealed today in Nature Methods. The new microscopes, known as mesoSPIMs, can image the minute detail of brain tissue down to individual... -
Metamaterials to Create Two-Part Optical Security Features
Researchers have developed advanced optical security features that use a two-piece metamaterial system to create a difficult-to-replicate optical phenomenon. Metamaterials are engineered to have a property that is not found in naturally occurring... -
Holograms That Can Measure Polarization of Light
For the first time, researchers have used ultra-thin layers of 2D structures known as metasurfaces to create holograms that can measure the polarization of light. The new metasurface holograms could be used to create very fast and compact devices... -
Flexible Solar Cells a Step Closer to Reality: Organic solar discovery
Solar cells that use mixtures of organic molecules to absorb sunlight and convert it to electricity, that can be applied to curved surfaces such as the body of a car, could be a step closer thanks to a discovery that challenges conventional... View All
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Flamingo Light Sheet Microscopes Rely on Precision Motion Systems from PI
The ambitious Flamingo light sheet microscopy project of the research lab around Professor Jan Huisken at the Morgridge Institute for Research is supported by PI (Physik Instrumente) LP with micropositioning stages for linear and rotary motion. The... -
Ensenso 3D Camera Enables Picking in the Smart Factory
Short cycle times, little scrap, minimal stock-keeping - the factory of the future is networked and highly economical. An important component here is industrial image processing. A specialist in this field is Pose Automation GmbH based in Germany.... -
Solar Cell Manufacturing More Efficient with Robot Vision
Price reductions in increasingly more popular solar panels are the result of developments in both technology and production methods – and it is exactly this technology and its raw materials that Bones and his colleagues are looking into.... -
Smart Drones Use Artificial Intelligence in Solar Inspection Services
In a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of Essex, Above Surveying intends to use embedded systems to automate and reduce the number of human interventions required when operating drones and processing imagery data collected... -
Agrivoltaics: Co-locating solar energy production on agricultural land
Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate. Or perhaps you are a producer of renewable energy struggling with dramatic heat and weather. With increasing temperatures, solar... -
Fiber Laser and Oscillation Welding Meets Needs for Telecomm Customer
In 2019 SPI Lasers was approached by Pyramid Engineering to supply an evaluation laser for a new welding system being developed for a telecommunications customer. As a leading designer & integrator of high precision welding systems for the... -
Teledyne Princeton Blaze Used in Label-Free Imaging of Living Cells
Teledyne Princeton Instruments, a world-renowned manufacturer of scientific imaging and spectroscopy equipment, and a Teledyne Technologies company, is pleased to recognize the recent work of Associate Professor Hideaki Kano of the University of... View All
