Editor’s Picks

71. Automobile Manufacturer Uses IR Thermography To Uphold Quality Standards 10/22/2010
    FLIR Advanced Thermal Solutions has announced a new application story that describes how AUDI AG is using infrared thermography to uphold its quality standards.
72. Sierra-Olympic's New Ruggedized Pan-Tilt Video Surveillance System 10/9/2015

    Sierra-Olympic Technologies recently introduced the Aeron Searcher as a new addition to their product portfolio. The Aeron Searcher is a pan-tilt, visible and thermal video surveillance system with continuous EO and IR zoom features.

73. Stanford Scientists Break Record For Thinnest Light-Absorber 7/18/2013

    Stanford University scientists have created the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record.

74. UCSB Researchers Achieve World's First Violet Nonpolar Vertical-Cavity Laser Technology 7/23/2012

    In a leap forward for laser technology, a team at University of California, Santa Barbara, has developed the first violet nonpolar vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on m-plane gallium nitride semiconductors.

75. Nanostructures Control Heat Transfer: Researchers In Bayreuth Demonstrate New Concepts For Heat Management 12/13/2017

    For the first time, Prof. Dr. Markus Retsch and his research group at the University of Bayreuth have succeeded in precisely controlling temperature-dependent thermal conductivity with the help of polymer materials.

76. First Sensor Closes 2017 Successfully 2/16/2018

    According to provisional figures, the First Sensor Group closed fiscal year 2017 very successfully. Sales amounts to EUR147.5 million, almost 2% above the planned range of EUR140 million and EUR145 million. Due to a more dynamic second half of the year, the operating result (EBIT margin) comes up to 7.1%. It thus considerably exceeds the originally planned level of 5% to 6%. The full consolidated financial statements will be published on March 22, 2018.

77. Photon Announces New Pulsed Frequency Measurement Capability Of The NanoScan Beam Profiler 9/3/2009
    Photon, a leading manufacturer of beam profiling optical test equipment announces a new feature for pulsed laser measurement with its NanoScan Beam Profiler.
78. A New Laser Source For Infrared Chemical Imaging: A Promising Tool For Early Cancer Diagnostic 3/23/2018

    Sébastien Février, reader at the university of Limoges and researcher at XLIM (CNRS/Université de Limoges), and his team demonstrated that a bench-top, optical fibre-based laser source can be used to perform infrared spectromicroscopy with a precision rivaling, and in some regards even surpassing, that of experiments at large-scale synchrotron facilities.

79. Quantum Algorithm Could Help AI Think Faster 2/1/2018

    One of the ways that computers ‘think’ is by analysing relationships within large sets of data.

80. Photovoltaic Cells Tap Underwater Solar Energy 6/7/2012

    Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Electronics Science and Technology Division, dive into underwater photovoltaic research to develop high bandgap solar cells capable of producing sufficient power to operate electronic sensor systems at depths of 9 meters.