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New Double-Sided Solar Panels Follow Sun, Produce 35% More Energy

Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and single-axis tracking technology that tilts the panels so they can follow the sun are the most cost effective to date, researchers report June 3rd in the journal Joule.

4 Jun 2020

New Compact Semiconductor Laser Works in Visible Range at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020

New Method Could Help Develop More Sophisticated, Sleeker LED Devices

UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting technology.

4 Jun 2020

Light Scattering Measurement Techniques Help Create Perfect Optical Systems

Some of the society’s major challenges can be primarily addressed through novel technologies—and a majority of these technologies feature an optical system at their hub.

3 Jun 2020

PDR’s New Affordable PCB X-ray Inspection Systems Offer Quality Image Clarity

PDR X-ray Solutions is pleased to announce that its 2D and 2D+ X-ray systems have set a new industry standard for high-quality X-ray images at an affordable price.

From PDR X-ray Solutions 3 Jun 2020

IQFROG Measuring Your Ultrashort Pulses

LASER COMPONENTS would like to introduce the IQFROG to measure the pulse intensity and phase in both the spectral and temporal domains, yielding a complete pulse characterisation.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 3 Jun 2020

New USB3 Cameras Engineered to Meet the Challenges of Modern Vision Systems

Teledyne Lumenera, a Teledyne Technologies company, and manufacturer and developer of digital cameras for industrial and scientific imaging applications, is pleased to announce the release of its new Lt Series USB3 cameras.

From Teledyne Lumenera 3 Jun 2020

New Stretchable Color Sheets for Adhesive-Type Display Elements

A joint research team of Hayato Kumagai in the latter half of the doctoral course and Kazuhiro Takahashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering of Toyohashi University of Technology, and Toshinori Fujie, Associate Professor (Lecturer) of the School of Life Science and Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, have succeeded in developing a variable color sheet with a film thickness of 400 nanometers (less than one-hundredth of the thickness of a human hair) that changes color when stretched and shrunk.

3 Jun 2020

New Technology Enables Smart Window to Self-Regulate its Optical Transmittance

Researchers have developed a new easy-to-use smart optical film technology that allows smart window devices to autonomously switch between transparent and opaque states in response to the surrounding light conditions.

3 Jun 2020

New 3D Imaging Method to Visualize Biological Samples on Microscopic Scale

A collaboration between Colorado State University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign resulted in a new, 3D imaging technique to visualize tissues and other biological samples on a microscopic scale, with potential to assist with cancer or other disease diagnoses.

3 Jun 2020

Basler Introduces Embedded Vision Solutions for the NVIDIA Jetson Platform

Basler, a leading global provider of embedded vision solutions, today announced its new Embedded Vision Development Kit and two Add-on Camera Kits powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson™ platform.

From Basler AG 2 Jun 2020

Study Confirms Feasibility of Handheld UV Device to Kill Coronavirus

Scientists at Penn State, the University of Minnesota, and two Japanese universities have now reported that it is possible to create a personal, handheld device that emits ultraviolet light of high-intensity to disinfect areas by destroying the novel coronavirus.

2 Jun 2020