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Hikvision Launches New ITS Camera for Improvement of Road Safety and Traffic Flow

The new All-Rounder ITS camera is engineered with an all-in-one structure, embedding video, radar, and supplemental light in one module, helping traffic authorities to easily ramp up the detection of violations

From Hikvision UK & Ireland 4 Feb 2021

New Laser Technique Shows Smog-Forming Effects of Nitrophenol in Air

A new, sophisticated laser-based technique has enabled scientists to observe the live decomposition of a pollutant into atmospheric nitrous acid, which plays an essential role in the development of photochemical smog and ozone.

4 Feb 2021

Align Technology Announces the iTero Element Plus Series Next Generation of Scanners and Imaging Systems

Align Technology, Inc. today announced the availability of the iTero Element® Plus Series, which expands the company’s portfolio of iTero Element scanners and imaging systems to include new solutions that serve a broader range of the dental market.

From Align Technology, Inc. 4 Feb 2021

New Method Uses Light to Improve the Speed of 3D Printing

The speed of light has come to 3D printing. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new method that uses light to improve 3D printing speed and precision while also, in combination with a high-precision robot arm, providing the freedom to move, rotate or dilate each layer as the structure is being built.

4 Feb 2021

Researchers Design Advanced Long-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new approach to quantum device design that has produced the first gain-based long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) photodetector using band structure engineering based on a type-II superlattice material.

3 Feb 2021

2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Awarded for Development of LED Lighting

The 2021 QEPrize is awarded for the creation and development of LED lighting, which forms the basis of all solid-state lighting technology. Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell Dupuis are recognized not only for the global impact of LED and solid-state lighting but also for the tremendous contribution the technology has made, and will continue to make, to reducing energy consumption and addressing climate change.

3 Feb 2021

New Technology Aims to Modernize Optical Digital Storage

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored "digital characters" to modernize optical storage. They are confident the advancement will help with the explosion of remote data storage during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 Feb 2021

OCT Imaging Technology can Help Distinguish Between Legitimate and Counterfeit Travel Documents

New research by the University of Kent has found that optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging technology can be utilised to distinguish between legitimate and counterfeit travel documents.

3 Feb 2021

BitFlow Axion-xB Frame Grabbers Improve Performance of Camera Link Imaging Systems

Design engineers in the machine vision industry now have more configuration options than ever before with the introduction of the new Axion-xB line of frame grabbers from BitFlow, with support for the highest performance Camera Link® Base cameras on the market. Available in single, dual and quad link versions for maximum design flexibility, the new frame grabbers demonstrate BitFlow's ongoing commitment to the highly popular Camera Link (CL) standard.

From Bitflow, Inc. 3 Feb 2021

WITec ParticleScout™ Enhanced with New Features

WITec GmbH, the pace-setting leader in Raman microscope technology, has enhanced its ParticleScout automated particle analysis tool to offer even greater speed and versatility for finding, classifying and identifying microparticles.

From WITec GmbH 3 Feb 2021

BioTek Announces New Cytation C10 Confocal Imaging Reader

BioTek Instruments, a part of Agilent, is excited to unveil the Cytation C10, an advanced, automated Confocal Imaging Reader. This versatile and multi-functional automated system is ideal for research laboratories and core facilities looking to increase productivity while reaping high-quality qualitative and quantitative data to support cell-based research.

3 Feb 2021

Skoltech Imaging Equipment Used to Study Crystal Structure, Optical Properties of Photocatalysts

Skoltech researchers helped their colleagues from Japan, Germany, the United States, and China study the crystal structure and optical properties of a new class of two-dimensional compounds, which can be used as effective visible-light-responsive photocatalysts for energy and chemical conversion.

2 Feb 2021

Researchers Develop New Approach for Designing Photonic Devices

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas have developed and demonstrated a new approach for designing photonic devices. The advance allows them to control the direction and polarization of light from thin-film LEDs, paving the way for a new generation of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies.

2 Feb 2021

New Insights on True Catalytically Active Species Involved in Photocatalytic Systems

A collaboration between the Pericàs group with Prof. Timothy Noël and Dr. Paola Riente at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands), has crystallised in a Nature Communications paper where they provide key insight into the chemical nature of the true photocatalyst involved in the Bi2O3-driven atom-transfer radical addition (ATRA) reaction.

2 Feb 2021