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Briefs: Materials
Capillography (from the Latin capillus, “hair”, and the Greek graphein, “to write”) is a recently conceived technique for forming mats of nanofibers into useful patterns. The concept was inspired by...
Products: Photonics/Optics
A new turnkey diode laser system from Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) delivers 75W of power at either 808 nm from a 200 μm core 0.22 NA (numerical aperture) fiber, or 976 nm from a 400 μm core 0.22 NA fiber. The...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Power amplifiers comprising InP-based high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) in coplanar-waveguide (CPW) circuits designed for operation at frequencies of hundreds of gigahertz, and a...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The EC-TD5207 ZapFreeTM Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder from Micronor Inc. (Newbury Park, CA) is a passive, safe, non-metallic fiber optic rotary encoder designed specifically for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Global Lighting Technologies (Brecksville, OH) has introduced LED-based high-brightness backlights that offer thinness down to 0.4 mm for backlighting LCDs in consumer electronics products such as the keypads/keyboards used...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The BSR112 is a miniature Spectral Irradiance Meter from B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, DE) designed for field, industrial, and lab applications. BSR112 comes with a plug-and-play USB 2.0/1.1 interface. Standard software...
Products: Photonics/Optics
CIP Technologies (Ipswich, UK) offers a reflective electro-absorption modulator (R-EAM) for applications including 10 Gbit/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks (PONs). The...
Products: Photonics/Optics
GPD Optoelectronics Corp. (Salem, NH) offers 1.5 mm diameter InGaAs pin photodiodes. The GAP1500 series detectors are available in bare die and packaged form. The photodiodes are available in TO-46 or TO-5 cans with flat...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Universal Laser Systems, Inc. (ULS) (Scottsdale, AZ) offers VersaLASER® VLS3.60, VLS4.60, and VLS6.60, a broad range of entry-level, powerful, and versatile laser solutions that can process multiple materials and diverse applications...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Timbercon, Inc. (Lake Oswego, OR) offers standard single mode coupler/splitters, which are used to either combine two or more signals into one, or split one signal into multiple paths. They are available in 1×2,...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The W10M Series DC-AC inverter from Endicott Research Group (Endicott, NY) provides a wide input voltage of 8V-24V for powering the backlights of LCDS used in portable medical equipment and other equipment where input is usually...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Ondox, Inc. (Monrovia, CA) has added a 10mW, 405nm diode to its product line of wavelength stabilized lasers. The single longitudinal mode 405nm lasers have coherent length >1m, side mode suppression >25dB, and th...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Optiwave Systems Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario) has released the OptiSystem 6.0, the latest version of its optical communication system engineering design and validation tool. The system’s new features...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The world’s first silicon-based complementary metal oxide/semi-conductor (CMOS) integrated-circuit voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) operating in a frequency range around 324 GHz...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The FIL-5V-3A precision filament supply, offered by UltraVolt, Inc. (Ronkonkoma, NY), is a center-tapped, non-isolated, low-voltage filament supply rated for 0 to 5 VDC at 0 to 3 Amps. The supply is designed for a...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The shapes of waveforms generated by commercially available analytical separation devices, such as some types of mass spectrometers and differential mobility spectrometers are, in general, inadequate...
Products: Photonics/Optics
The BPS Series high-voltage DC/DC converters from BEAR Power Supplies (Phelps, NY) power avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and piezoelectric actuators in optical systems, lasers, and other industrial and scientific instruments. The...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Group-III Nitride Field Emitters
Field-emission devices (cold cathodes) having low electron affinities can be fabricated through lattice- mismatched epitaxial growth of nitrides of elements from group III of the periodic table. Field emission of electrons from solid surfaces is typically utilized in vacuum microelectronic devices, including some...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Morgan Electro Ceramics (Bedford, OH) introduces a high voltage discharge ceramic capacitor with a high break-down strength up to 10 kVmm-1 and an inherently low dielectric loss. This combination of properties makes the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An improved broadband planar magic-T junction that incorporates microstrip/slotline transitions has been developed. In comparison with a prior broadband magic-T junction incorporating...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An improved packaging approach has been devised for filling a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber (HC-PCF) with a gas, sealing the HC-PCF to retain the gas, and providing for optical connections and,...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Thermal Spray Formation of Polymer Coatings
This innovation forms a sprayable polymer film using powdered precursor materials and an in-process heating method. This device directly applies a powdered polymer onto a substrate to form an adherent, mechanically-sound, and thickness-regulated film. The process can be used to lay down both fully dense...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
While industrial applications typically require high levels of reliability, availability, ruggedness, and longevity, there often is a set of unique system requirements dependent...
Briefs: Materials
A method of making more-complex molecules from simpler ones has emerged as a by-product of an experimental study in outer-space atom/ surface collision physics. The...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Kodak CCD image sensors Eastman Kodak, Image Sensor Solutions Rochester, NY 585-722-4385 www.kodak.com/go/imagers
Kodak digital technology was used on the Space Shuttle Discovery,...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
e2v CCD image sensors e2v technologies plc Elmsford, NY 914-592-6050 www.e2v.com
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is currently on Mars using the probe’s High Resolution...
Articles: Software
Software from Jet Propulsion Laboratory for detecting planets outside our solar system, and from Ames Research Center for defining safety margins for fiery spacecraft re-entries have been named co-winners...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Optimizing system resource utilization is a key design objective for system engineers in communications, electronics, and other industries. System resources...
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Lunar Science Instrumentation: Understanding and Characterizing the Moon Through Challenging Measurements
NASA lunar robotic science missions support the high-priority goals identified in the 2007 National Research Council report, The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon: Final Report (National Academies Presses, 2007). Future missions...
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.