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3D Facial Imaging Tool can Expedite Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Diseases

Most children with rare genetic diseases spend years undergoing medical tests and waiting for a diagnosis -- a long, exhausting process that takes its toll on children and their families.

9 Jun 2020

Researchers Trap Laser Light in Optical Whispering-Gallery Mode

When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul's cathedral, the sound runs so easily around the dome that visitors anywhere on its circumference can hear it.

8 Jun 2020

New Optical Framework Could Help Visualize Nanometric Objects

New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical new tool to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering including semiconductor wafer inspection, nanoparticle sensing, material characterization, biosensing, virus counting, and microfluidic monitoring.

8 Jun 2020

New Method to Calculate Simple Holograms for Heads-up, Near-Eye Displays

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new way of calculating simple holograms for heads-up displays (HUDs) and near-eye displays (NEDs).

8 Jun 2020

Near-IR Fluorescence Imaging Could be Improved by Stable, Functional Dyes

Researchers can track the biomolecular processes in live tissue through non-invasive optical methods, like fluorescence imaging.

5 Jun 2020

New Technique Helps Create Complex Perovskite Solar Cell Designs

Perovskites are a potential alternative to the silicon used for making a majority of the present-day solar cells. But despite this fact, novel manufacturing processes are required to make them viable for commercial production.

4 Jun 2020

New Deposition Method Offers Viable Pathway to Miniaturize Optical Devices

Smart phones, tablets and laptop displays, camera lenses, biosensing devices, integrated chips and solar photovoltaic cells are among the applications that could stand to benefit from an innovative method of nanocrystal assembly pioneered by Australian scientists.

4 Jun 2020

New Double-Sided Solar Panels Follow Sun, Produce 35% More Energy

Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and single-axis tracking technology that tilts the panels so they can follow the sun are the most cost effective to date, researchers report June 3rd in the journal Joule.

4 Jun 2020

New Compact Semiconductor Laser Works in Visible Range at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020

New Method Could Help Develop More Sophisticated, Sleeker LED Devices

UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting technology.

4 Jun 2020

Light Scattering Measurement Techniques Help Create Perfect Optical Systems

Some of the society’s major challenges can be primarily addressed through novel technologies—and a majority of these technologies feature an optical system at their hub.

3 Jun 2020

PDR’s New Affordable PCB X-ray Inspection Systems Offer Quality Image Clarity

PDR X-ray Solutions is pleased to announce that its 2D and 2D+ X-ray systems have set a new industry standard for high-quality X-ray images at an affordable price.

From PDR X-ray Solutions 3 Jun 2020

IQFROG Measuring Your Ultrashort Pulses

LASER COMPONENTS would like to introduce the IQFROG to measure the pulse intensity and phase in both the spectral and temporal domains, yielding a complete pulse characterisation.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 3 Jun 2020

New USB3 Cameras Engineered to Meet the Challenges of Modern Vision Systems

Teledyne Lumenera, a Teledyne Technologies company, and manufacturer and developer of digital cameras for industrial and scientific imaging applications, is pleased to announce the release of its new Lt Series USB3 cameras.

3 Jun 2020

New Stretchable Color Sheets for Adhesive-Type Display Elements

A joint research team of Hayato Kumagai in the latter half of the doctoral course and Kazuhiro Takahashi, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering of Toyohashi University of Technology, and Toshinori Fujie, Associate Professor (Lecturer) of the School of Life Science and Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, have succeeded in developing a variable color sheet with a film thickness of 400 nanometers (less than one-hundredth of the thickness of a human hair) that changes color when stretched and shrunk.

3 Jun 2020