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Investing in a new scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a strategic move towards enhancing business performance and operational efficiency. Whether you're grappling with the sluggishness of traditional floor models or the prolonged turnaround times of external services, upgrading to a more accessible, faster, and easier-to-operate SEM is essential. Desktop SEMs: Cost-Effective Solutions The decision between a desktop SEM and a...

Palletways has developed technology which captures the data of every pallet and vehicle entering its hub with the same high definition cameras used to inspect the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Rob Gittins, Palletways UK Managing Director, explains the benefits of its award winning archway scanning system. Click here to read the complete article published in www.shdlogistics.com To speak with...

Enduro-Tech manufactures accessories for enduro motorcycles, founded in 2012 within a year it became one of the best known brands in the market of companies manufacturing motorcycle accessories. Its success is due to the company’s extensive knowledge of the industry and the use of the newest technologies allowing it to both design and manufacture parts. Enduro-Tech uses a SMARTTECH 3D...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has become a powerful and versatile tool for material characterisation. This is especially so in recent years, due to the continuous shrinking of the dimension of materials used in various applications.  What is SEM?The optimal resolution of an imaging instrument depends mainly on the wavelength of the medium. Since the wavelength of electrons is much smaller...

The Ultra High Resolution OSA (UHR-OSA) proposed by APEX Technologies remains a very important tool not only to measure the optical OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) signal spectrums even with few tens of MHz spacing sub-carriers but also to adjust and adapt it to other modulation techniques. APEX-UHR-OSA incessant need in OFDM research area APEX UHR-OSAs have found a wide industrial and...

The APEX Technologies Ultra High Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyser (OSA) can be used to measure the active/passive optical component insertion loss/gain thanks to the possibility to synchronise the internal Tunable Laser Source and the OSA sweepings. In this context, the APEX OSA remains a perfect tool to measure the Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensor reflection with 1 MHz of resolution...

For 30+ years Lambda Photometrics have represented Stanford Research Systems (SRS) in the UK as SRS’s authorised UK distributor and service centre with unparalleled experience of supporting their products. To ensure best value for money some companies require several quotes to satisfy their organisation’s purchasing policy. In order to clarify any confusion over comparisons between Lambda’s pricing and SRS’s International...

An absolute position measurement system has a noise floor of less than 0.02 nm/√Hz over a range of 1.2 mm. Measuring to the nanometer scale is no small feat—getting there takes careful engineering and a fundamentally good sensor. The sensors used for stage position feedback inside semiconductor lithography tools regularly achieve this level of precision. Zygo has supplied displacement measuring...

Stanford Research Systems BGA244 The BGA244 Binary Gas Analyser from Stanford Research Systems (SRS) is a new product harnessing the fundamental physical principles of acoustic resonance to measure the speed of sound in a gas mixture and provide gas ratio measurements with errors as low as 100ppm. This technique has advantages over conventional thermal conductivity binary gas analysers with...

General purpose I/Os (GPIOs) enable the use of a pin as an input as well as an output. When using cameras with GPIOs with a PLC, you will meet the challenge that the output signal of the GPIO is not high enough to give a switching signal to the PLC. One solution to overcome this issue is to use a...