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Partnership Begins on Maintenance-Support Docking Station
Sealevel Systems was selected to design and manufacture docking stations for VT Miltope’s At-Platform Automatic Test Systems (APATS) Integrated Family of Test Equipment (IFTE)...
Application Briefs Defense
Projectors Enhance US Army Flight Simulations
The US Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Army’s focal point for aviation and missile platform research, has replaced its aging projectors with six...
Application Briefs Defense
Low-Voltage Platform Powers US Army's Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED)
Kollmorgen has released an in-line variant of its lightweight, low voltage Power Generation System, which will be used by the United States Army to deliver...
Briefs Software
Environmental Awareness of Sensor and Emitter Employment
Many Army missions rely on effective sensing capabilities that provide intelligence on the adversary, and protect friendly forces from enemy detection. Sensors that are stationary (microphones, geophones, and ground-based radars) and moving (cameras on unattended aerial vehicles and ground...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Disposable Chemical Sensor and Wireless Communication Device
A disposable chemical sensor and temperature device has been developed that may be dropped into building rubble or other areas not accessible by rescue personnel to test the environment in the rubble. The system also provides wireless two-way communication and control to obtain...
Briefs Information Technology
360-Degree Visual Detection and Target Tracking on an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Operation of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) poses a number of challenges, including vehicle survivability for long-duration missions in hazardous and possibly...
Briefs Materials
Optical Properties of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Mats for Photonic Applications
Carbon nanotubes possess unique electronic properties that are very useful for building electro-optical devices at nanometer scales. In optoelectronic applications, a large number of carbon nanotubes will be assembled in a desired form.
Briefs Materials
Ultraviolet Polymerization of Hydrodynamically Shaped Fibers
Materials composed of stacked plates are stronger than the same materials in bulk. However, such stacked plate materials are generally composed of hard, inorganic materials cemented together by a more flexible substance, and do not occur in long fiber shapes. Very few natural or manmade...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fabrication of Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films for OLED Applications
The process to prepare single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) solutions with a good degree of dispersion of individually isolated SWCNTs and very thin SWCNT bundles was...
Products Photonics/Optics
Focus-Tunable Lenses
Edmund Optics® (EO) (Barrington, NJ.) offers two liquid-filled lenses from Optotune of Switzerland. The Electrically Focus-Tunable Lenses provide a single-lens tool for focus and zoom objectives. When the user applies a...
Products Electronics & Computers
Machine Control Interface Module
Trio Motion Technology (Tewkesbury, UK) has added to its MC464 Motion Coordinator machine controller range with the launch of its new EtherCAT Master drive interface module. The new module provides tightly...
Products Electronics & Computers
Stand-Alone Real-Time Clock/Calendar
Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) recently announced its first stand-alone I2CTM Real-Time Clock/Calendar (RTCC) family. All six MCP794XX devices are highly integrated at a low cost, including ample...
Products Electronics & Computers
Security Software
Express Logic (San Diego, CA) recently announced the integration of the μSSL™ Security Stack from Cypherbridge® Systems. μSSL implements a standards-based solution to achieve chip-to-chip and chip-to-server...
Products Electronics & Computers
Single-Chip Positioning Device
STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) has introduced Teseo II, a new generation of single-chip stand-alone positioning receivers for Portable Navigation Devices, in-car navigation, and telematics applications....
Products Electronics & Computers
Mobile Secure Router
The LN1000 mobile secure router from Juniper Networks (Sunnyvale, CA) is an 8 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port, ruggedized blade router that provides radio router protocol support with hardware based queuing and an integrated...
Products Electronics & Computers
Embedded Graphics Card
VIA Technologies (Taipei, Taiwan) has announced the world’s first graphics card designed specifically for the embedded market. The VIA eH1 AIB features an advanced DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Handheld RF Vector Network Analyzers
Anritsu Company (Morgan Hill, CA) has introduced the MS202xB/MS203xB VNA Master™ series handheld RF vector network analyzers (VNAs). With frequency coverage from 500 kHz to 4/6 GHz, and featuring...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Energy Harvesting Kit
Powercast Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA) has introduced its Lifetime Power® Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging. The kit features near-lossless energy storage and efficient charging via the THINERGY®...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF and Universal Frequency Counter/Timer
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced the Agilent 53200 RF and universal frequency counter/timer series, the first frequency counters with LXI Class C compliance. The Agilent 53200 RF and...
Products
Processing Card
Nallatech (Camarillo, CA) has announced the AMC-420, a mid-/full-size processing card. The PICMG® AMC.0 R2.0 compliant card features a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA and a range of devices that include logic-oriented LXT and DSP-oriented...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Borosilicate Glass
SCHOTT North America, Inc. (Louisville, KY) presents SUPREMAX® 33 rolled borosilicate glass for telescope applications. SUPREMAX 33, which has the properties of SCHOTT’s BOROFLOAT® 33, provides low thermal expansion, high...
Products Physical Sciences
AR Coatings for Optical Fibers
Laser Components (Hudson, NH) offers both assembled cables, including coated fibers, and job coatings on fibers supplied by the customer. They also offer anti-reflection coatings, which significantly reduce...
Products Physical Sciences
Surveillance Sensor
The Hyperspec Point & Stare sensor from Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, MA) is a fully integrated imaging sensor used for unattended, ground-based surveillance applications. The sensor identifies objects based on the target's...
Products Electronics & Computers
Controller and Linear Stage
Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA) has introduced the compact CONEX-AGP controller, preconfigured with an AgilisTM AG-LS25-27P linear stage that includes a miniature, built-in, direct-read linear encoder. The...
Products Imaging
PCI Frame Grabber
The PIXCI® SV5L low-profile frame grabber from EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) acquires video from NTSC, RS-170, PAL, CCIR, or S-Video cameras. A 3-input video multiplexer allows signal selection from two mini-BNC or one S-Video...
Products
Thermoelectric Cooler
Nextreme Thermal Solutions (Durham, N.C.) offers the OptoCooler™ HV37 module, a high-voltage, thin-film thermoelectric cooler (TEC). At 85°C, the OptoCooler HV37 can pump 4.5 watts or 107W/cm2 of heat in a footprint of...
Products
Absorber Sensors
Ophir Photonics Group (Logan, UT) has announced high-damage threshold power volume absorbers for short pulsed lasers (
Products
Laser Energy Sensors
Coherent (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced a set of EnergyMax sensors in which all meter electronics are miniaturized and integrated within the sensor head cable. Coherent’s sensors are available in this form factor with...
Products
Miniature Connectors
The micro38999 miniature connectors from Souriau (Wenatchee, WA) can withstand vibration of 44 Grms at a temperature of 125°C for 8 hours. Developed from the MIL-DTL-38999 specifications, the electrical crimp contacts can...
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