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Laser-based technologies and techniques including drilling, welding and measurement allow auto manufacturers to keep pace with the demand for lower emissions. For car manufacturers, the number 54.5 looms large. That’s the MPG requirement from the U.S. EPA set to take effect in 2025. To get to 54.5 mpg, carmakers are innovating and developing manufacturing advances that get weight out, tighten tolerances and yield other improvements.
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Vehicle Vision Puts the ‘Auto’ in ‘Automobile’
Whether it’s a flying, automatically driven car like the Jetsons’ or an artificially intelligent robotic automobile named KITT, people have long dreamed of automated, self-driving vehicles that come when you call them and know exactly where to take you. For photonics companies and enthusiasts of a future with driverless cars, there’s good news and better news: The dream will become a reality. It’s a matter of when, not if.
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Keeping critical parts of the railroad infrastructure free of snow, sleet, hail and ice – and even detecting unauthorized persons walking the rails – is essential for a safe and uninterrupted transportation service. Switch heaters can be inspected up to 2000 feet away with a pan, tilt and zoom camera in the visible and thermal infrared range.
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Large color gamut and better color reproducibility will be highly desired features of displays in the near future. Quantum dots will be the down-conversion technology of choice, allowing LCD makers to cost-effectively reach and exceed 100 percent of the NTSC and Adobe RGB color standards while achieving maximum system efficiency.
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Marrying the low cost of thin film and the efficiency of crystalline silicon helps to improve solar cells. The solar cell industry is at another inflection point in its development. Costs have come down as a result of a significant increase in capacity, and those reduced costs have caused demand to grow.
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Silicon APDs
First Sensor Inc.
The Series 8r silicon avalanche photodiodes (APD) from First Sensor Inc. offers high sensitivity in the red and green wavelength range.
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Integrated Vision System
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
Meeting the requirements of industrial inspection, the GEVA-312T integrated vision system from Teledyne Dalsa is a multi-camera, stand-alone device, offering easy migration.
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LME 2014 - Sept. 23-24, 2014 · Schaumburg, IL
Visit Photonics Media at Booth 1024
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LIA's Lasers for Manufacturing Event® (LME®) is the place to see the latest in laser technology, network with the industry's elite and find solutions to current and future manufacturing needs. Our mission is to provide a one stop event for companies interested in integrating laser technology into their production.
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Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazines (Photonics Spectra, Industrial Photonics, BioPhotonics and EuroPhotonics). Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Managing Editor Laura Marshall at laura.marshall@photonics.com
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