In late March, vertically integrated photonics product maker Thorlabs Inc of Newton, NJ, USA announced a greenfield initiative to start the new business unit Thorlabs Ultrafast Optoelectronics (Thorlabs-UFO). The team will focus on ...
Tags: photonics, Electrical, Electronics
ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards ...
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RF, microwave and millimeter-wave product maker Pasternack Enterprises Inc of Irvine, CA, USA has launched a new family of coaxial X-band high-gain power amplifiers. These RF amplifiers are typically used as driver amplifiers or ...
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Emerson's FIELDVUE DVC6200 Series digital valve controller has racked up more than 1 billion hours of online use within the process and energy industries since its introduction in 2010. Steve Hagen, FIELDVUE product manager, credited the ...
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Three series of AVX multi-layer organic capacitors MLO featuring high self-resonance are now available from Avnet. The organic polymer based capacitors add cost benefits and tolerance control, due to the components fabrication on large area ...
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A research collaboration between the University College London (UCL) in the UK and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden has resulted in the design and testing of what is reckoned to be the widest-band amplifier circuit ...
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VDMA's Photonics Congress forecasts rapid growth of the sector in Germany and beyond. Industrialists and politicians mingled at Photonics Congress 2014 in Berlin. At last month’s Photonics Congress 2014, which was hosted in ...
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Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information. This new technique, which controls electrical conductivity within such ...
Tags: Squeezing Light, Metals, Inkjet Printer
Packet optical networking system maker Optelian of Ottawa, ON, Canada says that optoelectronics device foundry Compound Semiconductor Technologies (CST) of Hamilton, Scotland, UK will supply grown gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafers to its ...
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
The worldwide consumption value of LEDs in biophotonic and medical devices reached US$77.3 million, an increase of 19.8% versus 2012, according to ElectroniCast Consultants. The consumption of LEDs in sensing/detection and ...
Tags: Biophotonics, Medical Science
FCI, a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect systems, introduced today PwrBlade ULTRA, its next generation of PwrBlade connector. These power distribution connectors offer a 30 percent reduction in contact resistance, which ...
Tags: connector, reduction in contact resistance, improves carrying capacity
The new pumps of the Turbovac i product line consistently offer a higher performance even for widely differing requirements. Through their additional compression stage, the Turbovac 350 i and 450 i are particularly well suited for ...
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Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc (API) of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation), has been chosen to ...
JustRight Surgical, a micro-laparoscopic medical device company devoted to miniaturizing surgical instrumentation, has received 510 (k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its JustRight™ 5mm Stapler. The ...
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