LED Lighting

Hess AG and Thorn Lighting have signed an agreement which gives Thorn the rights to market the Hess brand in UK & Ireland, including Hess' entire outdoor lighting and site furnishing ranges

The EU has kicked off a project to make large-area OLED lighting modules with built-in intelligent light management. Large area OLED is one contender to replace fluorescent lighting, with sheets of light emitter under 1mm thick.

Atmel has announced an active stylus chip that delivers "accuracy and linearity of +/-0.25mm" on a capacitive touch screen from a 1mm diameter stylus tip, claimed the firm.

Typical applications for this scale of sensor are industrial imaging, such as flat-panel and PCB inspection, document scanning and areal photography

US firm Lytro has announced a consumer camera that does not focus images optically, but records light rays as vectors rather scalar intensities and computes focussed images from data. The technology springs from...

Fairchild has launched an LED dimmer IC which detects the AC input voltage condition and allows it to create an internal reference signal that results in high power factor correction.

Plastic Logic has released details of a capacitive touch e-reader with a 10.7in. plastic-substrate E Ink display. The firm, which specialises in organic thin-film transistors deposited on plastic substrates, is putting 1,000 of the readers into a Russian...

Many industrial, medical, marine, transport and aerospace systems with graphical user interfaces require display modules that are rugged and capable of reliable operation, writes David Potts from Anglia

Specifying an LED optic is easy isn't it? Just buy one with the right beam angle, and you are off. Right? Well maybe, but probably not. Because there are a few more things to think about before you can be pretty sure that what you buy will do what you want...

Optical fibre supports high speed data links which is why it was used in the Typhoon Eurofighter and in today’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Programme