Imaging News

RSS

New Sensor to Improve Road Safety

STMicroelectronics, a world leader in the design and manufacture of automotive ICs, today announced its first high-dynamic-range CMOS camera specifically tailored for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market. The new sensor combines the company's world-class expertise in automotive markets together with leading-edge CMOS imaging technology.

20 Oct 2008

Successful in Action: SESAM from Carl Zeiss in Use for Metals Research

The special SESAM system, a high performance version of the LIBRA® 200 transmission electron microscope series from Carl Zeiss SMT, has been in use at the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) for the past 10 months.

20 Oct 2008

Graphin Develops Evaluation Suites of CMOS Image Sensors with MIPI Standard

Graphin Co., Ltd., a rapidly emerging leader for evaluation suites for image sensors, announced today that it has developed the Advanced Board, an advanced evaluation product of CMOS Image Sensors (hereinafter called CIS) supported with the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) standard and will ship them on a commercial basis no later than the end of 2008.

19 Oct 2008

High Energy Neutral Atom Imager Captures Evidence of Far-Distant Particle Collisions

A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.

18 Oct 2008

New Catalog from PI Focuses on Specimen Positioning Devices and Microscope Lenses

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

17 Oct 2008

Pro-Lite Announces Release of ProSource 8.0 Light Source Modelling Software

Pro-Lite Technology LLP (Cranfield, England) has announced the release of ProSource 8.0 software from Radiant Imaging. The light source modeling software now delivers an improved user interface and expanded functionality for Radiant Source Model analysis and ray generation.

16 Oct 2008

Astor Center Hosts Top Photomicrographs from Around the World

With the appearance of gracefully swooping beams of light or a colorful array of feathers, a dazzling photo of Pleurosigma (marine diatoms) has won the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom took home the top honor with this image, which was magnified 200 times and taken using darkfield and polarized light.

16 Oct 2008

Research Paving Way for Improved Liquid Crystal Displays

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques. A research paper detailing the team's findings appeared in the September 21 advanced online publication of Nature Physics. The print version will be available soon.

16 Oct 2008

Transformation Optics Promises Radical Advances in Optical Technologies

A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology and "metamaterials."

16 Oct 2008

DRS Technologies Receives $33-Million Order for Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System Subassemblies

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received a follow-on order of $32.7 million for electro-optical subassemblies for the Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System (LRAS3) program. This is the second order under a five-year contract with a projected minimum value of $100.8M over its term, awarded by the Raytheon Company, McKinney, Texas, the prime contractor and final integrator for the LRAS3 program.

16 Oct 2008