Sofradir of Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe) for military, space and commercial applications, has agreed to acquire the infrared (IR) detector technology development and ...
Tags: Sofradir, infrared detectors, IR detectors, Sagem, InSb, QWIP
Japan's Sharp Corp has achieved what is claimed to be record solar cell conversion efficiency(for research-level non-concentrator solar cells)of 37.7%using a triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor solar cell(in which three ...
Tags: Sharp, solar cell conversion efficiency, triple-junction cell
At the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society(MRS)in Boston at the beginning of December,Global Photonic Energy Corp(GPEC)of Medford Lakes,NJ,USA–a developer of a organic photovoltaic(OPV)technology that has research ...
Tags: MRS, GPEC, thin-film solar cell, electricity
e2v sensor returns high-res satellite images 08 Oct 2012 a NAOMIa camera on board SPOT-6 satellite launched last month is based around a high-performance CCD chip. NAOMI camera SPOT-6,the new Earth observation satellite launched in ...
Tags: e2v sensor, satellite images, NAOMIa camera
Speech by the Governor Jiangsu is located in the beautiful Yangtse River Delta, crossing the Yangtse River and bordering the sea. It is an economically developed province and a talent hub. Since the Reform and Opening up, Jiangsu's ...
Tags: jiangsu province, survey, economy, investment
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
Tags: satellite, astronomer, Essex, Britain
IDG News Service-Syrians are turning to satellites to communicate as the country's Internet connections are shut down,but instances of jamming are making even that challenging.Google is also allowing people who can find a working phone ...
Tags: Syrians, Satellites, Internet connections
A plan by a satellite carrier to make better use of its spectrum could open up an extra channel for Wi-Fi in the U.S.,though how and when consumers would get to use it isn't yet clear. The proposal that satellite operator Globalstar ...
Tags: US, Satellite Carrier, Wi-Fi, FCC, LightSquared, Dish Network, Globalstar
Cellocator has launched an integrated Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) /GPS solution for the service providers in the automotive market of Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The solution consists of the ...
Tags: Cellocator, integrated Global Navigation Satellite System, GLONASS, GPS
Russia has introduced a law ostensibly aimed at sites containing images of child sexual abuse and other illegal material, but it has raised fears of censorship. In July, both houses of Russia's parliament voted in favour of the law that ...
Tags: Russian, Internet Blacklist, parliament
NASA has released a time-lapsed video of Hurricane Sandy,showing the storm move from its birth in the Caribbean to when it made landfall on the East Coast of the U.S. The catastrophic super storm slammed into the East Coast late ...
Tags: NASA, Hurricane Sandy, East Coast of the U.S., GOES satellites
While T-Mobile USA announced a deal to merge with MetroPCS Wireless on Wednesday,Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen said regulatory delays have prevented his company from securing partners and spectrum it will need to build a viable mobile ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences Corp for the spacecraft it is making for ...
Tags: Emcore, Orbital Sciences, NASA, ICESat-2 Spacecraft, solar panel
Free-space laser comms to boost Marines'bandwidth 11 Sep 2012 US Navy awards$7M contract for ITT Exelis and Novasol to build a line-of-sight system to handle escalating data needs. Intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance:data crunch ...
Tags: ExelisNovasol(aka Innovative Technical Solutions), Lights, Lighting
Inclinometer or the Tilt meter or Tilt sensor is extensively used in the construction and digging industry for the purpose of measuring the inclination or tilt angle.The inclinometer is basically used for the purpose of sensing the ...
Tags: clinometer, construction, measure