Complete solutions for SWIR
Edmund Optics is expanding its range of SWIR image processing components and now offers a complete solution comprising cameras, optics and lighting.
lighting
Tuning light with organoaluminium chemistry
A new type of compounds has potential applications in optical electronics such as in OLEDs.
Sustainable LEDs with perovskites
The frontrunner candidates for the next generation of lighting and display technologies.
Illumination Technology for Machine Vision
Expanded Portfolio for a Wide Range of Industrial Image Processing Applications
Twisted filaments emit elliptically polarized light
Researchers used twisted nanocarbon filaments with submicrometer-scale chirality.
New approach for brighter and more efficient LEDs
Semipolar LEDs are shining brighter while maintaining their efficiency.
AMS Osram and Fraunhofer IZM win Deutscher Zukunftspreis
“Digital light” LED technology brings intelligence and precision to the world of traffic lighting and enables novel, safety-related applications.
Consolidation plans to strengthen Noblelight operations
New owner Excelitas intends to merge four production facilities into one expanded site by 2027.
Light emission patterns from 3D-printed nanowires
Possible applications in optical communication, sensing, and imaging, where the directionality of the emissions is crucial.
Smart Vision Lights CEO Dave Spaulding to retire
The President and CEO of Smart Vision Lights, Dave Spaulding, will retire at the end of 2024. Steve VanderZwaag, currently Vice President of Engineering, will replace him.
inspect award 2024: The nominees have been announced and voting has begun
The jury of the inspect award 2024 has nominated ten products in each of the categories “Vision” and “Automation + Control”. Online voting is now open.
A new approach to design efficient light-emitting materials
Researchers found a way to develop bright, efficient and colorful OLEDs.
Tiny wireless light bulbs for biomedical applications
Organic light-emitting diode powered by low-frequency magnetic fields.
Perovskite LEDs shine a thousand times brighter than OLEDs
New prototype shows very efficient amplified spontaneous emission.
New approach adds blue to the OLED color palette
Long-lived blue PHOLEDs are based on plasmon-exciton-polaritons.
Smart Vision Lights Announces Universal Robots UR+ Certification for DoAll Multifunctional Light
Smart Vision Lights announces that its DoAll multifunctional light has received UR+ certification from Universal Robots.
Smart Vision Lights and Leimac announce strategic global partnership
Smart Vision Lights is joining forces with Leimac, a player in the Asian markets specializing in precision machine vision/image processing illumination and a total solution for factory automation inspection equipment.
Excelitas acquires Heraeus Noblelight
The industrial and medical technology manufacturer broadens its portfolio with a set of photonic solutions across the lighting spectrum.
Smallest ever light source with switchable colors
An artificial molecule made of two semiconductor nanocrystals emits light in two different colors.
Super flexible semiconductors for printed displays
New composite semiconductor is made up of a water-insoluble polymer and indium oxide.
Making blue OLEDs to shine brighter and longer
Dual-channel emission enables efficient deep-blue electroluminescence.
Why lighting matters when using camera systems
Proper lighting is crucial for cameras to accurately inspect object features. Learn how different lighting techniques, like coaxial and dark field, impact image quality and inspection success.
Growing precise arrays of nanoLEDs
New method to handle halide perovskite nanocrystals with precise control over the location and size.
New kind of eco-friendly light-emitting electrochemical cells
Long-lasting LECs use dendrimers combined with cellulose acetate and graphene.
New process to stack micro-LEDs
Approach ist based on 2D materials to create LED displays with smaller and thinner pixels.
Smart Vision Lights promotes Steve VanderZwaag to vice president of engineering
Smart Vision Lights appointed Steve VanderZwaag as vice president of engineering. He is thus responsible for the technical area of the manufacturer of LED lighting solutions.
Smart Vision Lights appoints Nick Doornbos as sales director
In March 2022, Nick Doornbos became transitional sales director for Smart Vision Lights. Now the lighting manufacturer has officially promoted him to this position.
Smart Vision Lights launches Smart Ship 48 program
System integrators and OEMs who need LED lighting quickly can select one from the program. Available wavelengths are white, red and infrared.
New CIE report on spectroradiometry
Under the scientific direction of Instrument Systems, the Technical Committee TC2-80 of the CIE has prepared a new technical report on the spectroradiometric measurement of optical radiation sources.
A candlelight-like glow from a flexible OLED
New device produces a bright, warm light with even less blue wavelength emissions than natural candlelight.
LEDs from rice husks
Waste rice husks are an excellent source of high-purity silica and value-added Si powder.
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.
On the Spot
Built for extreme environments, IP69K certified lights are specifically engineered to withstand everything from prolonged liquid immersion to high-pressure steam cleaning and corrosive washdown solutions.
Prototype of a large-area sky-blue PeLED
This new approach represents an important step to the commercial application of PeLED lighting.
World’s first hBN-based deep ultraviolet LED
Compared to the conventional aluminum gallium nitride, the new material has significantly higher efficiency of luminescence.
Smart Vision Lights
Ximea GmbH
Rauscher GmbH Bildverarbeitung
Edmund Optics Europe
Excelitas Noblelight GmbH
wenglor sensoric GmbH
ams-OSRAM AG
MGG Micro-Glühlampen-Gesellschaft Menzel GmbH
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration IZM
imec
iiM GmbH
Effilux
ipf electronic gmbh
Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage – CIE
Carl Zeiss IMT GmbH
Rat für Formgebung Medien GmbH
Opsira GmbH
evotron GmbH & Co. KG