Products: Imaging
Infrared Snapshot Camera
Sensors Unlimited — Goodrich ISR Systems, Princeton, NJ, announces the SU640KTS, a large-format indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) high-resolution shortwave infrared (SWIR) snapshot video camera. The imager meets all Conformite Europeene (CE) and U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards for radiated and...
Products: Imaging
Teledyne DALSA, Billerica, MA, a Teledyne Technologies company, has announced its BOA IDR optical inspection product. Features include identification and grading capabilities for part tracking based on codes,...
Products: Imaging
Multi ChipLEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Sunnyvale, CA, have been used by FormoLight Technologies, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, to develop a 150" diagonal LED video display.
Products: Imaging
Photron, San Diego, CA, has introduced the IDP Express R2000 system. The R2000 features an on-board field-programmable gate array (FPGA) to provide developers access to the open-ended architecture. The new system...
Products: Imaging
Invisual E. Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers an in-process, real-time thermal scanning system for welding inspection and batch process monitoring. The system utilizes the thermal distribution of the...
Products: Imaging
The ZM Series from Optex FA Sensors, West Des Moines, IA, provides durability with a SUS316L stainless steel housing and IP69K protection conforming to the IEC60529 rating system. The self-contained sensor meets...
Products: Imaging
Mad City Labs, Madison, WI, offers the Nano-F3D lens nanopositioning system. The tool positions an objective lens in 3 dimensions with subnanometer accuracy and repeatability. With a travel range of 100 μm in...
Products: Imaging
Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, Irvine, CA, offers the IK-HR2D HD camera. Providing real-time, live-image data capture, the camera also features both DVI-D and USB outputs. The 1.73 × 1.73 × 3.17', one-piece...
Products: Imaging
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile composite and S-Video PCI frame grabber from EPIX, Buffalo Grove, IL, acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two...
Products: Imaging
PPT VISION, Bloomington, MN, introduces twenty-six new IMPACT® M-Series color cameras with dedicated software tools for sorting, monitoring, and identifying color objects. The options range from economical VGA...
Products: Imaging
The VA210 Series of AOTF-NIR (Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter Near Infrared) hyperspectral imaging adapters from Brimrose, Sparks, MD, measure visible or NIR hyperspectral imaging information on a variety of materials. The...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
The ZT8540 I/Q Digitizer from ZTEC Instruments (Albuquerque, NM) functions as a baseband Vector Signal Analyzer (VSA) from DC to 300 MHz. This new baseband VSA provides the signal fidelity and real-time processing capabilities...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
MathWorks (Natick, MA) has announced the availability of MATLAB Coder, which
enables design engineers to automatically generate readable, portable C and
C++ code directly from their MATLAB algorithms....
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Meggitt Sensing Systems (San Juan Capistrano, CA) has introduced the Endevco® model 133, a three-channel general purpose piezoelectric signal conditioner with a wide bandwidth of 100 KHz (-3 dB corner),...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Allegro MicroSystems (Worcester, MA) has announced two new robust automotive grade buck regulators with high switching frequency and output current, each integrating a low resistance, high-side, N-channel MOSFET....
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Elan Digital System’s (Fareham, UK) USBHC869 USB interface chip now has a Demonstrator PCB including SDK driver code to help engineers simplify and speed up the development task of implementing the capability of the...
Supplements: Software
Comsol News - 2011
In the following user stories, nineteen diverse high-tech organizations showcase how their adoption of COMSOL Multiphysics has led to new product designs and research findings.
Table of Contents // COMSOL NEWS 2011FEATURES
Multiphysics 4 Multiphysics Analysis of a Burning Candle 5 Capacitively Coupled...
Briefs: Energy
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
May Issue of Lighting Technology Now Available
This issue of Lighting Technology has more new feature articles, application stories, tech briefs, products, and research news - all on the latest advances in LEDs and solid-state lighting.
Briefs: Energy
Polymer nanofibers are nanoscale materials whose properties can be adjusted to provide desirable light management performance for high efficiency solid-state lighting...
News: Energy
An international team of scientists led by a team at Monash University of Melbourne, Australia has found that the key to the hydrogen economy could come from a very simple mineral -...
News: Transportation
Advanced biofuels are highly touted as potential replacements for gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels. Equally touted is the synthesis of these fuels through the use of microbes. However,...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Air conditioning is a ‘must-have’ for most new cars. But the fluorocarbon refrigerant HFC-134a – the global standard – is one of the ozone-depleting greenhouse gases causing global warming....
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A preliminary study has shown that the use of a high-strength composite fiber cloth material may greatly reduce fabrication and deployment costs of a subsea offshore pipeline. Above-water...
Blog: Aerospace
Behind the Mars Science Laboratory Design
I spent part of the week at the 2011 Siemens PLM Connection Americas Users Conference (in Las Vegas!). William Allen, senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and mechanical systems design lead on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), spoke to the crowd about how the JPL, based in Pasadena, CA,...
Blog: Medical
Innovation: A Game for All Ages
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) recently wrapped up its BODY FORWARD Challenge. Teams were asked to explore bio-engineering possibilities and discover innovative ways to improve and maximize the body's potential.
The winning team, known as the "Flying Monkeys," will receive...
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This innovation from Goddard Space Flight Center is an antibacterial, anti-contamination, and self-cleaning coating that...
Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
Chad R. Frost, Intelligent Systems Division’s Area Lead for Autonomous Systems and Robotics, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Chad R. Frost supervises the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) technical area in Ames Research Center's Intelligent Systems Division. ASR staff develops advanced automation and control technologies to...
Articles: Energy
Given that solar-photovoltaic (PV) generating technology has been around for decades, one might think its general application in commercial and consumer circles might be a little more...
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