AMS has improved flicker detection in its range of multi-band colour sensors, intended to be used alongside camera chips in phones and tablets to allow them to compensate for artifacts such as banding. “With the wide-spread usage of LED lighting, photography increasingly suffers from flicker from the lighting source,” according to AMS. “The TCS3408 colour ...
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Magnetic fields can make separating ‘rare earth’ materials from one another less wasteful, according to the University of Pennsylvania. Used in displays, lasers and magnets, the rare earths are chemically similar and therefore challenging to separate – they tend to be found in the earth in mixtures, and can also presented for recycling in mixtures. ...
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Eye-tracking in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications are the targets Osram is aiming at with two infra-red LEDs. Eye tracking in VR and AR is there to reduce the discomfort and dizziness felt by some users when virtual and real perceptions do not match. It is implemented by analysing images from a ...
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GTK has expanded its range of fine pitch wire to board connectors with new options for discrete wire applications. There are 1.2mm pitch wire-to-board connectors with a mated height of 1.55mm, polarisation to prevent mis-mating and a surface-mount PCB header suitable for pick and place machines. There is also the 1.25mm pitch range, wich has ...
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Swarms of drones with limited resources can effectively search an environment, according to the Technical University of Delft, which has invented an algorithm to make it all work – without communication to a central computer. The overall aim of the project was for a group of simple robots to spread out autonomously after they are released, ...
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Intended to establish contact between a PCB and a metallic housing, WE-SMGS from Würth Elektronik consists of an elastic temperature-resistant foam block surrounded by a tinned copper weave. They can be pick-and-placed as well as re-flow soldered to the PCB (so Wurth sees them as an alternative to WE-SECF contact fingers), and “after compression, they then ...
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Balluff has introduced intelligent absolute linear position sensors. The family is called BMP and there are a variety of measurable lengths, including: 32mm (BMP0008), 128mm (BMP0002) and 256mm (BMP000J). Operating from 15 – 30Vdc, resolution is ≤1µm via IO-Link, non-linearity is typically ±250µm, repeatability ±100µm and temperature drift from the end value is ±0.3% mazzimum. There ...
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University of Oxford spin-out Oxford PV has ordered more manufacturing equipment for its 125MW silicon-perovskite solar cell production line in Germany. The order adds perovskite cell-making equipment to the previously ordered (see below) silicon solar cell production line, and includes development work on both line and process integration, according to the equipment maker Meyer Burger ...
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Test gear maker National Instruments systems has announced a 110-170GHz software-defined radio for 6G comms research, built on NI’s existing mmWave Transceiver System (MTS) and Virginia Diodes’ (VDI) radio heads. MTS has modular base-band and IF components that can be combined with programmable logic (FPGAs) to build complex RF transceiver – such as MIMO systems ...
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SKF has been contracted to supply power train components for Orbital’s ‘O2’ 2MW floating tidal turbine planned for Orkney’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in 2020. Orbital’s earlier SR2000 has already produced >3GWh over its intitial year of testing at the same site. The Swedish firm supplied drive train parts to Orbital before, but this time the ...
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