Products: Photonics/Optics
ColorMax and ColorMax View sensors from EMX Industries (Cleveland, OH) have been made in an industry standard M30 housing without internal or external switches. The operator has control over parameters of the sensor,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Cobolt AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has released two wavelengths on the single frequency 05-01 DPSS laser platform. The Cobolt Flamenco™ 660nm is available with 300mW CW output power, and the Cobolt Jive™ 561nm has 500mW CW...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Joining Technologies (East Granby, CT) has introduced the Infinite Web™ 355, a laser cutting and welding system for splicing iron and nickelbased strip alloys. The design incorporates laser welding and cutting with...
Products: Photonics/Optics
To grow its PixelTec™ patterned optical coating technology, Ocean Thin Films (Largo, FL) has expanded its Golden, Colardo facility. PixelTec technology enables micron-scale patterning of multiple thin film...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The photoelectric sensor from AutomationDirect (Cumming, GA) now includes 18 mm rectangular plastic DC models. The IP67 rated sensors, available in 12 varieties, feature an 18mm diameter threaded lens and M12...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The SILICON VIDEO®10C6 color and 10M6 monochrome cameras from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) have 10 megapixel progressive scan images with a resolution of 3840 × 2764 pixels and 12 bits per pixel. Asynchronous capture is...
Products: Lighting
Lighting Science Group (Satellite Beach, FL) and Dixon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd (New Delhi, India) have announced that a high-performance, sub-$15 omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb will...
Briefs: Materials
Metal-Matrix/Hollow-Ceramic-Sphere Composites
A family of metal/ceramic composite materials has been developed that are relatively inexpensive, lightweight alternatives to structural materials that are typified by beryllium, aluminum, and graphite/epoxy composites. These metal/ceramic composites were originally intended to replace beryllium...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical design engineers often discuss the use of aspheres to reduce element count, but they seldom put the discussion into real-time practice, often fearing that the more complex fabrication...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Smart Phones in Space
Students, teachers, and commercial companies have been taking advantage of the International Space Station's (ISS) unique environment for years. One of those companies, Houston-based Odyssey Space Research, plans to bring the experience to the rest of us via our mobile devices.
Products: Imaging
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Bridgewater, NJ) has developed two large-area X-ray flat panel sensors based on amorphous silicon technology. The sensors, intended for applications in dental X-ray imaging, are available in two...
Products: Imaging
The MLX75412 extended HDR Image Sensor from Melexis (Ieper, Belgium) includes two on-chip functions: exposure controls and an adaptive Autoview™ histogram remapping capability. Focus applications include automotive driver...
Products: Imaging
QImaging (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) has announced the release of the Rolera Thunder EMCCD microscopy camera. Designed for quantitative low-light fluorescence microscopy, the Rolera Thunder features a...
Products: Imaging
Samsung Techwin America (Ridgefield Park, NJ) has introduced a 1.3-megapixel, high-definition network camera. The SNB-5000 model camera now offers 360-degree viewing.
Products: Imaging
Saelig Company (Pittsford, NY) has announced the C429-RS232, a serial and encoded video camera module. The module uses an OmniVision CMOS MT9V011 VGA color sensor, matched with a Vimicro VC0706 control chip. The C429-RS232...
Products: Imaging
OPTRONICS® (Goleta, CA) has announced its Microcast ® HDXS™ 1920 × 1080 progressive scan C-mount camera system for research and microsurgical imaging applications. The device, which includes a 3CCD HD prism and...
Products: Imaging
Vaddio (New Hope, MN) offers the ClearVIEW HD-19 PTZ robotic camera. The camera, eq - uipped with a 19x optical zoom lens, is built around a 1.3 mega - pixel, 1/3-Type Sony Exmor CMOS image sensor. Integrated SmartSHOT...
Products: Imaging
The INFINITY2-5 digital CCD USB 2.0 camera from Lumenera Corporation (Lawrenceville, GA) provides qualitative image archiving in life science, clinical, and material science applications. The 5.0 megapixel camera employs...
Products: Imaging
The FLIR GF306 infrared camera from FLIR Systems (Boston, MA) allows utility companies and other organizations to search for SF6 leaks across a range of substation equipment. Using a proprietary High Sensitivity Mode (HSM),...
Products: Imaging
Olympus (Center Valley, PA) has released the DP26, a high-resolution digital color camera for microscopy. Incorporating a 5-megapixel, scientific-grade CCD sensor, the DP26 allows users to browse samples without the...
Products: Imaging
Now available with Matrox Mura MPX Series display wall controller boards, the Matrox PowerDesk Edge Overlap feature from Matrox Graphics (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) provides seamless images over multi-projector...
Products: Imaging
The Versa 3D™ DualBeam™ system from FEI Company (Hillsboro, OR) provides high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging on a range of sample types. Versa 3D is available with either high-vacuum-only or high- and...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As any dolphin could tell us, sound travels well in water. While water absorbs electromagnetic radiation and light waves over relatively short distances, sound travels widely and...
Articles: Software
The Kepler mission Science Operations Center Science Pipeline Release 6.0 software system was named 2010 NASA Software of the Year by the NASA Software Advisory Panel. Designed, developed, and operated...
News: Energy
Researchers at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (UNNC) have invented a material that can retain and release heat according to specific temperature requirements. The material could be...
Products: Green Design & Manufacturing
The G2131-i Isotopic Carbon Analyzer from Picarro (Santa Clara, CA) will enable a range of new scientific applications to better resolve CO2 dynamics in the atmosphere, plant respiration, and the ocean. The...
Products
Galil Motion Control (Rocklin, CA) has released Frequency Analysis Software (FAS), which allows tuning of servo control systems in the frequency domain. Tuning in the frequency domain is often preferred for...
Products
Peer Review Tool
SmartBear Software (Beverly, MA) has introduced PeerReview Complete™, a new peer review tool that bridges the gap between software and hardware engineers to share, review, and annotate schematics, 2D drawings, diagrams, images, HTML, and other digital content. Hardware and software design teams can share and review both...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Remcom (State College, PA) introduces a new version of Wireless InSite®, its suite of ray-tracing models and 2D field solvers for the analysis of site-specific radio propagation and wireless communication...
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