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Altair Engineering has announcedthe addition of Tech-X’s VSim to theAltair Partner Alliance(APA)’s software offering. VSim is a computational application for simulating electromagnetics in the presence of complex structures and dynamical charged particles.Because VSim supports massively parallel computing that scales to tens of thousands of processor cores, users are able to model complex geometries and more physical phenomena while s...

Directing evacuations, reducing damage and saving lives in the aftermath of major disasters like wildfires, chemical blazes or volcanic eruptions are set to be improved thanks to a new drone that provides crucial air quality data to ground-based emergency services in real time.

The 100G Lambda Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) Group has announced their intent to develop specifications based on 100 Gbps per wavelength optical technology. Under the MSA, participating companies are addressing the technical challenges of achieving optical interfaces utilising 100Gbps per wavelength technology ensuring optical interoperability for transceivers and interfaces produced by different manufacturers and in various form factors.

With the usability of 6-axis hexapods increasing in research and industry applications, PI has introduced a medium load 6-axis precision motion platform, the H-825 hexapod. The H-825 provides a self-locking load capacity up to 30kg (66lbs). The motion range is up to 55mm (linear) and up to 38° (rotation). High system precision is guaranteed by absolute encoders and an actuator resolution of eight nanometers - with position repeatability of &p...

The future of secure communication will be in quantum encryption, and KTH will lead research in this area under the auspices of a new national research centre financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.Gunnar Björk, Professor of Photonics at KTH, says that the Wallenberg centre for Quantum Technology is considered to be one of Sweden's largest individual research efforts in recent years.

A discovery by researchers from Princeton University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Humboldt University in Berlin points the way to more widespread use of an advanced technology generally known as organic electronics.The research, published in the journalNature Materials, focused on organic semiconductors, a class of materials prized for their applications in emerging technologies such as flexible electronics, solar energy conversion, a...

Thermal imaging company,Acal BFi, is helping enable customers to easily access and design with FLIR's Lepton micro-thermal camera series, including the new Lepton 3. Joining Acal BFi’s range of FLIR solutions, including Boson and Tau cores, the recently announced thermal micro-camera offers what the company claims to be outstanding performance in an ultra-compact package.

Researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a method for making photonic devices — similar to electronic devices but based on light rather than electricity — that can bend and stretch without damage. The devices could find uses in cables to connect computing devices, or in diagnostic and monitoring systems that could be attached to the skin or implanted in the body, flexing easily with the natural tissue.

Shaping nanometric gold particles-of the size of millionths of a millimeter-to improve their properties in biomedicine and photonics has been made possible thanks to a special laser system in a work carried out at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and now published inScience.

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have reported they are one step closer to technology that could result in electrons being replaced with photons, solving the looming ‘speed limit’ for electronic gadgets.According to Dr Marcello Ferrera, an assistant professor in Photonics and Optics at Heriot-Watt, electronics have had such long-term success mainly due to how much smaller devices have become, and how robust they are, even when mad...