An all-weather imaging system works in any lighting conditions and uses an InGaAs detector with a very high frame rate to acquire a sequence of images of the solar panels as the electric current is applied.
Framos and GrAI Matter Labs (GML), a pioneer of brain-inspired ultralow latency computing solutions, have united at Vision 2021 to create ‘life-ready artificial intelligence’ for industrial vision platforms.
What will the production hall of the future look like? Interested parties can now get the answer in the redesigned Omron Automation Center Barcelona. Visitors can experience Omron's automation solutions live on site, including robotics, quality control, flexible manufacturing and artificial intelligence. In addition, they learn how to adapt their company to changing requirements.
Valentin P. Gapontsev, PhD, was an accomplished entrepreneur in addition to being a recognized scientist and inventor. He passed away on October 22nd, after reportedly having battled cancer.
One Nobel Prize winner, two funding awards, 45 program points, almost 50 speakers and nearly 600 participants from all over the world.
A grant from the US Navy will advance sensor technology to improve the effectiveness of night vision and infrared devices made with silicon germanium tin.
New discovery based on topological insulators paves the way to a new generation of high-frequency circuits and extremely robust, compact communication devices.
Vision & Control is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. As early as the mid-1980s, its later founder and managing director, Dr. Jürgen Geffe and his team developed an automatic optical control system for industrial production. The great success with the smart camera “ILK02” led to the founding of the company in 1991.
Heckert Solar, one of the largest and leading German manufacturers of high-performance photovoltaic modules, has purchased two systems for its plants in Thuringia (LWD Solar GmbH) and Chemnitz.
Metal processing with lasers and plasma releases many different pollutants into the ambient air. Together with industry partners, the Fraunhofer IWS has developed a system that efficiently removes these substances from the air. The filter can be adapted to the various materials and substances released in each case. In the future, the technology will be used in other applications, such as additive manufacturing.
A multinational team from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Francis Crick Institute in London and PoL scientists in Dresden will develop solutions for distributed, accelerated image analysis that is accessible to end-users without programming experience.
Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer (47) takes over the chairmanship of the management of the Ebm-Papst Group with headquarters in Mulfingen (Baden-Württemberg). Thomas Wagner (62) takes over the position of deputy again after interim management of the company and as planned in advance. He is supposed to support Geißdörfer with the induction and, in his function as COO, actively accompany the ongoing strategy and transformation process.
With the seminar "Inspection and characterization of surfaces with machine vision" on December 1 and 2, 2021 at the Fraunhofer IOSB in Karlsruhe, the Fraunhofer Vision division is continuing its series of seminars. The practical seminar imparts specialist knowledge of the technology of surface inspection and provides information about its possible uses in industrial quality assurance.
Israeli and German researchers have developed a way to force an array of vertical cavity lasers to act together as a single laser – a highly effective laser network the size of a grain of sand.
Eight different paths can be taken by each of the photons. As the team has now been able to show, this makes the generation of the quantum cryptographic key faster and also significantly more robust against interference.
Dr Klaus Fiedler will become the new chief executive officer of LPKF Laser & Electronics AG. The supervisory board of the SDAX-listed technology company has appointed the 50-year-old top man-ager to join CFO Christian Witt in the management board, effective 1 April 2022 or earlier, with a three-year contract term.
Ligentec, pioneer in high-performance, low-loss, silicon nitride photonic solutions, and specialty semiconductor producer X-Fab Silicon Foundries have announced a strategic partnership resulting in the large-scale supply of integrated photonic devices.
Due to a Schottky barrier-tuning effect and trap-filling effect, hot-electron photocurrent in a gold electrode could be amplified tens of times.
Photonics anthem and music video launch: “Stand by your Girl” – photonics superhero Stella invites you to #GooglePhotonics on 21 October!
Deal to accelerated growth and stronger focus on photonics, expansion of global presence in attractive markets, predominantly the semiconductor equipment and medical technology industries.
NIL Technology (NILT) has designed, built, and characterized multiple meta optical element (MOE) lenses with a breakthrough performance of 94 % absolute efficiency.
Taking into account the current Corona regulation of the Bavarian state government, the SPS will take place from November 23-25, 2021 in Nuremberg as a so-called 3G plus event. Fully vaccinated and convalescent people as well as people with a negative PCR test that is no more than 48 hours old are allowed to participate. This regulation enables a largely unrestricted trade fair experience with maximum protection against infection.
Inpotron is expanding production at its headquarters. The power supply specialists are reacting to the increased demand for their products and want to systematically counteract delivery bottlenecks. An agile company structure should ensure dynamic growth. A 100 percent increase in sales to 48 million euros is planned by 2028.
In September, Thorne Lietz joined the electronics team at InnoLas Solutions as senior sales manager. For 25 years, he held various positions at LPKF Laser & Electronics.
A new method to produce a promising light source, usually available only in giant facilities, at a lab-scale tabletop.
A consortium of over fifty of Europe’s top photonics competence centers has established a program to train thousands of industry workers in the adoption and development of innovative photonics-based solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges, from environmental sustainability to healthy living and smart infrastructure.
As part of the leading international trade fair for quality assurance Control 2022 in Stuttgart, Fraunhofer Vision, in cooperation with trade fair organizer Schall, is organizing the special show on non-contact measurement technology for the 17th time. Companies, research institutions and universities that are interested in participating are asked to submit an exhibit proposal to the Fraunhofer Vision division by the beginning of November 2021.
Breakthrough in stabilizing nanocrystals introduces a low-cost, energy-efficient light source for consumer electronic devices, detectors and medical imaging.
First year of intensive cooperation successfully completed – JustAir-Teka units complement JustLaser products to create a custom-fit package solution.
Panagiotis Vergyris’ expertise includes optical techniques for material characterization, quantum and classical communication systems, meteorology and atmospheric measurements, innovating microfabrication protocols, space and defense, and health care.
Six long-standing board members bid farewell at the general meeting – Josef May continues to lead the fortunes of ophthalmic optics in the association.
Photoneo has hired Werner Mueller-Veith as new CEO of the Sensors division.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created a method of processing 3D images that could have beneficial implications for health care, manufacturing and electric vehicles.
At a Capital Markets Day, Stemmer Imaging concretized the goals for the next few years. The company is now aiming to achieve its sales target of EUR 200 million in 2024 and has also increased the earnings range from 10 to 12 percent to an average of 12 to 14 percent in the medium term.
On the occasion of Vision 2021 in Stuttgart, Macnica ATD Europe introduced Shoichi Teshiba as the new CEO of all European Macnica operations
