Onsemi announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the company will acquire GTAT for $415 million in cash. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of Onsemi and GTAT, is expected to close in the first half of 2022.
Pleora Technologies today announced a new distribution partnership with Hongke Technology, a distributor of industrial cameras, 3D imaging and high-performance vision solutions in China. Effective immediately, Hongke will distribute Pleora's AI, edge processing and real-time sensor connectivity solutions.
Edmund Optics now offers ultra-thin optical filters in cooperation with Everix. The optical component manufacturer and supplier is the exclusive global distributor for the ever-expanding product line and keeps the entire selection of ultra-thin filters in stock.
Two major new releases of Cognex VisionPro software deliver advanced vision tools and tighter deep learning integration in a high-performance platform.
Fiber with a liquid glycerol core is much more robust and can transmit data just as reliably as solid-core fibers.
Nanoscopic resolution images for a better diagnosis.
Infineon’s new MEMS scanner for eyeglasses and head-up displays.
‘Tera 250’ becomes ‘Fabrica 2.0 Machine’ following the acquisition of Nanofabrica.
Company expands its nanofabrication portfolio with laser beam lithography from the Netherlands.
Light waves are confined to tiny regions of space by a new kind of disorder.
Joensuu Photonics Center (JPC) project to support the creation of jobs in the growing photonics sector and attracting new businesses to the region.
Project Silicon Photonics for Trusted Electronic Systems “Silhouette“ is launched.
A first step towards realizing chip-scale scalable single photon switches.
100 years and very much alive and kicking – ferroelectricity has been researched and used until the present day.
Plasmon-coupled surface states could improve imaging and sensing systems.
Jenoptik achieves sales growth of 29.6 percent in the 2nd quarter 2021 compared to the previous year. Half-year sales increased by 18.3 percent to 389 million euros. Based on these figures, the optics group is increasing its targets for 2021 as a whole: sales are expected to rise to 880 to 900 million euros and the EBITDA margin to 19 to 19.5 percent.
The laser optics manufacturer Quality Thin Films, USA, acquired at the end of 2020, has been renamed Edmund Optics Florida. Under this company name, the company now produces short-pulse optics with low group delay dispersion (GDD) and optics with high laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT).
Coherent beam combining can generate different energy distribution patterns particularly quickly during operation.
Measuring the collective motion of a glass sphere in a laser trap.
IDS exceeded industry expectations in the first half of 2021. Instead of the 7 percent increase in sales forecast for the machine vision industry by the VDMA, the company has so far more than doubled its growth.
Osconiq E 2835 CRI90 (QD) pushes efficiency values to new heights, even at very high color rendering indices and warm light colors.
II-VI introduces high-efficiency multifunctional metalenses for ultracompact optical sensors.
A new type of electronic paper offers an optimal color display while using ambient light.
ON Semiconductor has a new brand name: Onsemi. With this, the supplier of power supplies and sensors wants to emphasize its continued focus on the automotive and industrial markets.
The camera manufacturer Basler achieves the strongest half-year in the company's history in terms of sales, profit and incoming orders. Compared to the same period last year, sales increased by 30 percent and profit by more than 60 percent.
In the white paper "A Mobile Revolution", the International Federation of Robotics examines how mobility is impacting robotics and why this is a groundbreaking development. The use of autonomous mobile robots is increasing not only in industry and logistics, but also in public spaces.
Book ads for issue 5/2021 and pitch articles for issue 6/2021.
Society’s next vice president is also co-chair of SPIE Photonics West BiOS conference
Torsten Nolting took over as head of ABB's Electrification business area in Germany on August 1, 2021. He succeeds Uwe Laudenklos, who became Lead Business Area Manager Northern and Central Europe for the same business area on April 1 of this year.
Effective immediately, Susanne Kretzschmar will strengthen the strategic market development of the machine vision software Halcon as Commercial Product Manager at MVTec.
