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Combination of Scanner and Analysis Software Digitally Captures the Visual Features of Coins

German state museums stock an innumerable number of historical coins that vary from one another merely in details. These archaeological artifacts are different from paintings and may not be barcoded, marked, or labeled.

4 Feb 2019

Clear Blue Technologies’ Smart City Lighting Systems Installed in Toronto’s Premium Neighborhoods

The Smart Off-Grid™ company, Clear Blue Technologies International, has announced that 40 of its Illumient solar-powered street lights have been set up in Toronto’s Bloor Street West.

16 Jan 2019

Tailored LED Light May Help Regulate Human Health and Improve Indoor Farming

Assuming light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, to be merely an efficient upgrade to the regular electric light bulb is a stuck thought, state Jeff Tsao, a Sandia National Laboratories scientist, and his colleagues from other institutions in a Nature “Perspectives” article published in late November.

10 Jan 2019

New Optical Memory Cell Offers Large Data Storage Option than Before

A new method demonstrated by scientists can store more optical data in a smaller space than was earlier conceivable on-chip. This method enhances the phase-change optical memory cell, which uses light to write and read data, and could provide a faster, more power-efficient form of memory for computers.

21 Dec 2018

Opto Diode Introduces Ultraviolet LEDs with Narrow Spectral Output

Opto Diode Corporation, an ITW company, introduces the first in a series of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UVLEDs), the OD-265-001.

From Opto Diode Corp. 20 Dec 2018

Researchers Discover Single Material Capable of Producing White Light

Physicists at The University of Toledo are part of an international team of researchers who discovered a single material that yields white light, paving the way to a new frontier in lighting, which accounts for one-fifth of world’s energy consumption.

5 Dec 2018