An optical lens that senses gas

Researchers develop optical lens from hybrid glass

28-Jun-2024 - A research team from the University of Jena has developed a small optical lens, only a few millimetres in size, whose refractive behaviour changes in the presence of gas. As reported by the researchers in the journal Nature Communications, this “intelligent” behaviour of the micro-lens is enabled ...

VEGA expands into Sweden and Denmark

Two new subsidiaries start operations in Scandinavia

08-Mar-2024 - The demand for innovative measurement technology for industry is also increasing in Scandinavia. With the new subsidiaries in Denmark and Sweden, which will open in spring 2024, VEGA is actively responding to this development and moving even closer to customers with its modern leveland pressure ...

Chipmetrics Secures € 2.4 Million Seed Funding Round

Innovative metrology chips for 3D thin film processes

06-Feb-2024 - Chipmetrics Ltd, the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology company and a pioneer in 3D ultra-high aspect ratio test elements for metrology of semiconductor and advanced thin film material manufacturing, announces the successful closure of a €2.4 million investment round. The international ...

SOPAT acquires Parsum

25-Aug-2022 - SOPAT GmbH, a cutting-edge technology provider in the field of inline process instrumentation, takes the next step towards growth. SOPAT announced that the Parsum – Gesellschaft für Partikel-, Strömungs- und Umweltmeßtechnik mbH – will become part of the SOPAT family with effect of 12th of August ...

A thermometer for the oceans

Measurement of noble gases in Antarctic ice cores

08-Jan-2018 - The average sea temperature is an essential parameter of the global climate – but it is very difficult to measure. At least until now, because an international team of researchers including Empa scientists have now developed a novel method using the concentration of noble gases in the eternal ...

Smart tomographic sensors control industrial processes of tomorrow

HZDR coordinates European Doctoral Training Network TOMOCON

01-Sep-2017 - Modern parallel computer architectures are capable of processing huge amounts of data at high speed. This allows for the increasing use of imaging techniques as sensors to control machines and process plants. In the new European collaborative project TOMOCON twelve research institutions and 15 ...

Dräger acquires majority stake in Hamburg-based start-up bentekk

04-Apr-2017 - Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA has acquired a 51 percent stake in bentekk GmbH from seed investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH). This latest acquisition sees Dräger extend its expertise in the area of mobile gas measurement even further. bentekk, based in ...

bentekk GmbH receives seed funding to develop the market with gas measurement technology

28-Apr-2016 - The manufacturer of measurement instruments for toxic industrial gases bentekk successfully completes a seed funding round. The High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH) invest a six-figure sum in the Hamburg-based company. The handheld X-PID allows fast and ...