Virtual physics conference.

HBK has launched the countdown to its virtual Product Physics Conference, taking place from 13th to 15th October 2020.

The HBK Product Physics Conference is to bring together interested parties, from an international community of users and partners, to learn more about how leaders of the global test and measurement community overcome their challenges.

A wide range of topics, suitable for different types of engineers will be covered, including industrial electronics and measurement chains set ups, improving the durability and reliability of products, data insight, automating analytics for huge quantities of sensor data, electric power testing, strain measurement, dynamic weighing, sound and vibration analysis, electroacoustics and more.

Presented over three days, this free, user-centric online event will demonstrate how HBK’s customers have implemented its tools to address engineering challenges and innovate in their industries. Attendees can also join interactive discussion panels, dedicated networking areas and presentations.

The HBK Product Physics Conference is a good opportunity to share experiences and learn best practices, while expanding personal networks.

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Instruments used by Nobel prizewinners!

Nobel prize winners in physics used Keithley Instrumentation
Keithley Instruments extends its congratulations to Drs. Andre Geim (left) and Konstantin Novoselov, scientists at the University of Manchester in England who have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on graphene, a single-atom-thick form of carbon with outstanding physical, electrical, and chemical properties. In their research, Geim and
Novoselov employed several Keithley Instruments products, including the Model 2400 SourceMeter(r) instrument and the Model 2182A Nanovoltmeter.

Mark Hoersten, Keithley's vice president, marketing, noted, "It has given everyone here enormous satisfaction to know that our products have been a part of a ground-breaking research effort like this one. Coincidentally, three Keithley employees were actually in Geim and Novoselov's labs on a routine customer visit when the call came in from the Nobel Prize Committee, informing Geim and Novoselov of their win."

Award-Winning Research
Geim and Novoselov first isolated graphene, a one-atom-thick form of carbon with a hexagonal (six-sided), honeycomb-like structure, in 2004. Potential applications of this material, sometimes described as "the perfect atomic lattice," include the development of new super-strong and lightweight materials for making satellites, aircraft, and automobiles. Electronics applications may include the development of ultra-fast and ultra-high-bandwidth transistors, innovative displays, biodevices, single-molecule gas detectors, and ultracapacitors.

Robert Green, one of the Keithley employees on hand in the winners' labs when the call came from the Nobel committee, explains, "They've been using two of our Model 2400 SourceMeter instruments and one of our Model 2182A Nanovoltmeters to characterize both the resistivity
and the very high carrier mobility of the thinnest crystalline material ever isolated. Ultra-sensitive, precision sourcing and measurement equipment such as the Model 2400 SourceMeter instrument, which can output very low levels of current, and the Model 2182A, which can measure the smallest voltages, are essential to making repeatable and reliable measurements."

Big physics solutions

NI COTS Instrumentation and Vitrociset Services Offer Complete Solutions for Advanced Physics Applications

National Instruments is collaborating with Vitrociset, a leading European technical services provider for highly complex systems, to offer complete solutions for big physics applications such as particle accelerators and fusion devices. Vitrociset will integrate NI commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software into its service packages to offer an innovative product portfolio to organizations developing sophisticated physics projects. By combining NI experience in delivering COTS products for advanced physics with the service expertise of Vitrociset in large control applications, the collaboration will provide the physics community well-integrated, efficient solutions to its challenges.
“When two impressive companies like Vitrociset and NI collaborate, organizations like ITER benefit,” said Paola Batistoni, industry liaison officer for ITER Italy, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor fusion project. “This collaboration will make it possible for us to more fully implement COTS solutions in our projects, which ultimately will save us development time and costs.”
Stefano Concezzi, director of big physics at National Instruments, added, “Both NI and Vitrociset have provided a variety of impressive solutions for advanced control projects. Because Vitrociset has a solid reputation and long track record of addressing large, demanding control challenges, we at NI are excited about the many ways we can team up to help streamline the development of big physics projects.”

Rome (I) -based Vitrociset has delivered successful solutions for numerous complex applications ranging from European government space vehicle control and launching projects, avionics and air traffic management to environmental monitoring, telecommunications and security. By incorporating NI products such as NI LabVIEW graphical system development software and high-performance PXI instrumentation into its services, Vitrociset can provide solutions for governments and other large organizations seeking to address advanced control challenges.

“National Instruments has consistently provided Vitrociset engineers with innovative products that help us meet even the most demanding application requirements,” said Lorenzo D’Onghia, general manager of Vitrociset. “We look forward to giving NI tools center stage in helping the physics community achieve its goals.”

NI has contributed product solutions to some of the world’s most advanced physics projects including the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a tokamak fusion device control system at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. With LabVIEW and instrumentation based on the PXI standard, as well as the NI CompactRIO programmable automation controller (PAC), National Instruments has helped many physicists and engineers streamline project development and simplify solutions that otherwise would be cost-prohibitive.