Terahertz spectroscopy probes crystallinity
New method is well suited for determining the crystallinity of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Best business prospects for additive technologies
Investment plans in AM remain high – technology development of greatest importance in the industry.
Vitector Acquired by Cedes
19.04.2022 - Fraba sells the Vitector division, which focuses on sensor systems for industrial doors, to the Swiss technology company Cedes.
Promoting breakthroughs in research and applied innovations
CLEO, the world-renowned conference for laser science and photonics applications, will be presented in a hybrid format, 15 – 20 May 2022.
Machine Vision Forum at Control 2022
The series of events on technology knowledge in industrial machine vision from Evotron is being continued. From May 3 to 6, the Control trade show in Stuttgart will be offering up-to-date, free knowledge in a compact, practice-oriented format between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. every day. The media partner is the trade magazine inspect - WORLD OF VISION.
Vectorial metrics reveal complex optical information
Defining Mueller matrix properties enables new roles and possibilities for vectorial metrics.
Light derails electrons through graphene
Circular polarized light can induce bent electronic flows in bilayer graphene.
“SynthAI achieves great results within just a few hours”
Siemens Digital Industries Software’s SynthAI service is delivering the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve the challenge of training machine vision systems.
PhotonDelta lands €1.1 billion euro investment
Capital will be used to build 200 startups, scale up production, create new applications for photonic chips and develop infrastructure and talent.
Hummel is growing in all product segments
Hummel achieved sales of EUR 91 million in 2021 and thus increased the previous year's result (EUR 70.4 million) by around 30 percent.
Fast lidar system with submillimeter localization accuracy
A new generation of lidar-based 3D cameras could be fast enough to enable integration of 3D vision into all sorts of products.
Measuring the smallest magnetic fields with diamond and laser
Fraunhofer IAF develops quantum magnetometers based on diamond. They are able to detect magnetic fields with a spatial resolution of a few nanometers down to single electron and nuclear spins.
Single-photon source for practical quantum encryption
The new source is an important step toward highly secure communication based on quantum key distribution.
Nicoletta Casanova joins EPIC Board of Directors
During the annual general meeting 2022 celebrated in Vilnius, Lithuania, the European Photonics Industry Consortium announced its new board member: Nicoletta Casanova, CEO and president of Femtoprint.
Tiny microlaser emits two circular beams
A new precisely tunable laser can be used in many fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and communication.
EPIC Award goes to Reinhard Völkel
The European Photonics Industry Consortium has announced that Reinhard Voelkel, CEO of Suss MicroOptics, is the winner of the EPIC CEO Award 2022.
Optronis: world’s first streak camera with semiconductor sensor
With the world’s first commercially available semiconductor-based streak camera, Optronis offers research a new instrument to enable detailed scientific investigations in the field of ultrafast processes.
Prima Additive is born
Prima Industrie completed the spin-off operation of the business unit dedicated to additive manufacturing.
New world record for qubit storage
Long-duration quantum memories for photonic qubits are essential components for achieving long-distance quantum networks and repeaters.
Precisely coat complex-shaped optics
The new Spatial ALD system can uniformly coat complex-shaped optics, allow higher deposition rates than previously possible. It is of interest, among others, for applications in the automotive lighting or VR/AR sectors.
German Eaton sales gets new manager
In addition to managing sales, the graduate engineer will also promote the strategic initiatives of the energy management company in the field of renewable energy generation and distribution.
Wayland Additive and EWI sign MoU
The agreement marks a collaborative effort to extend the production capabilities of eBeam metal additive manufacturing with the purchase of a Wayland Additive Calibur3 system by EWI.
Nanolive receives $20M in equity financing
Leading live cell imaging and analysis company Nanolive SA announced today that it has successfully completed the initial closing of 20 million US dollars in the Series C-1 equity financing round of investment.
Predicting the potential efficiency of solar cells
Terahertz and microwave spectroscopy determine the mobility and lifetime of the charge carriers in new semiconducting materials.
IFM increases sales by 21 percent to 1.16 billion euros
In the past fiscal year, IFM, a specialist in automation technology, was able to increase its previous year's sales by 21 percent and achieve a new sales record of around EUR 1.16 billion.
Olympus spins-out scientific solutions business
Olympus Corporation completed the separation of its scientific solutions business to a wholly-owned subsidiary, Evident Corporation.
Quantum photonic processor with a record number of qumodes
The provider of photonic quantum computing hardware Quix Quantum has launched the world’s largest photonic quantum processor commercially in March.
Stemmer Imaging confirms record business figures for 2021
Stemmer Imaging AG has published its final figures for the 2021 financial year. The company was able to increase order intake, sales and earnings, both compared to the previous year and compared to the pre-crisis year 2019. The preliminary business figures were thus confirmed.
Jenoptik with a sales increase of 22 percent
Jenoptik achieved sales of around 750 million euros in the continued operations in 2021, an increase of 22 percent (previous year 615.5 million euros). Sales increased particularly in the Asia/Pacific region with an increase of 64.8 percent. Europe (excluding Germany) recorded a sales increase of 11.1 percent, America increased by 28.0 percent. A total of 81.4 percent of sales were generated abroad after 76.9 percent in the 2020 financial year.
Basler reports strong annual results for 2021
Basler presented its annual financial statements for 2021 today. In a financial year 2021, which was significantly affected by bottlenecks for semiconductor components, the Basler Group was able to achieve sales growth of 26 percent to EUR 214.7 million (previous year: EUR 170.5 million).
Baumer builds Innovation Center in Switzerland
Baumer is currently building a new, modern development center at its headquarters in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) for 20 million Swiss francs. After the High-Tech Center in Stockach in southern Germany (opening in 2018), the new building is the second major investment in the field of innovation within a few years.
Using light to locate phones
A new correlator works like a photonic processor by using fiber optic components to turn two radio-frequency signals into optical signals.
Annette Rinck appointed President of Leica Microsystems
Leica Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of microscopes and other scientific instruments, has announced the appointment of Dr Annette Rinck as its president, with effect from 1 April 2022.
Web-based laser cutting simplifies high-end manufacturing
Netherlands-based Snijlab is partnering with laser manufacturer Luxinar to provide engineers and creative entrepreneurs with a simple and accessible online cutting service for their production parts.
Automation Technology gets new managing director
The co-founder of camera manufacturer Automation Technology, Michael Wandelt, handed over his duties as CEO to Daniel Seiler, the former CEO of IDS, on March 1, 2022. Among other things, he plans to expand the US business.
