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Gaggione zooms in on flexible beam adjustment for LED lenses

Alun Williams — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:40:49 +0000

Gaggione is highlighting adjustable beam optics for its Sirius range of LED optics. The zoom function is to allow switching between narrow and wide light distributions. For Sirius, there ...

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SPIE Photonics West: Copper heatsink packages for laser diodes

Steve Bush — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:34:19 +0000

Schott has created high-power TO-9 and SMD packages for laser diodes that have a copper slug that passes all the way through the base. The copper is brazed into position, ...

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Professor Cyril Hilsum recognised with Lifetime Achievement Award

Caroline Hayes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:51:48 +0000

At the Electronics Weekly Elektra Awards 2025, the entire ballroom of the Hilton Bankside rose to its feet in a standing ovation as Professor Cyril Hilsum accepted the Lifetime Achievement ...

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10mm surface-mount 1,500V solid-state relay

Steve Bush — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:41:28 +0000

Aiming at 800V automotive battery management, Vishay has put a 1,500V Form A solid-state relay into a 10 x 10mm 4pin SMD-8 package. Back-to-back mosfets are used at the output ...

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Light pipe sample kits

Steve Bush — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:47:13 +0000

Powell Electronics is stocking a pair of light pipe design kits from Bivar. Each kit includes a selection of Bivar’s most popular light pipes: Panel Press-Fit kit (right) is has ...

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50mm acrylic collimators for CoB LEDs

Steve Bush — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:38:19 +0000

Gaggione has created a series of 50mm acrylic optical collimators for LED lighting. Called HADAR50, they are intended to be used with white and tuneable white chip-on-board LEDs with light ...

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150Mbit/s 3kV 100kV/μs dual-channel digital isolators in SOIC8-N

Steve Bush — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:17:38 +0000

Toshiba has introduced four dual-channel 150Mbit/s digital isolators in 4.9 x 6 x 1.75mm surface-mount packaging. Options allow two channels in one direction, or one channel in each direction, and ...

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Amber lenses make LED streetlights better for nature and architecture

Steve Bush — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:59:02 +0000

Gaggione has introduced coloured lenses for LED streetlight to emulate older lighting styles and reduce wildlife disturbance. There are two tints: amber-yellow and amber-orange, and they are found in its ...

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Silanna UV lights up its SF2 series of UVC LEDs

Alun Williams — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:32:18 +0000

Silanna UV has announced its SF2-3T9B5L1-TB, a Far UVC LED that succeeds its SF1 series. It can detect nitrate (NO3, NO2) in water, and carbon dioxide (CO2) and Nitric Oxide ...

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