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New Technique Allows Real-Time Microscopy at High Heat and Loading

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows them to track microscopic changes in metals or other materials in real time even when the materials are exposed to extreme heat and loads for an extended period of time — a phenomenon known as “creep.”

10 Jul 2019

New Imaging Method Aids in Water Decontamination

A breakthrough imaging technique developed by Cornell researchers shows promise in decontaminating water by yielding surprising and important information about catalyst particles that can’t be obtained any other way.

10 Jul 2019

“Smart” Glass Recognizes Images without Power Sources

The advanced technology that drives face recognition in a number of contemporary smartphones may one day receive a technological upgrade that looks and sounds amazingly low-tech.

9 Jul 2019

Innovative Portable Camera can See Polarization

In 1935, the first full-length movie produced with the advanced, three-color process of Technicolor premiered, and the New York Times stated that “it produces in the spectator all the excitement of standing upon a peak … and glimpsing a strange, beautiful, and unexpected new world.”

9 Jul 2019

Flexibility Comes in Threes: LEDVANCE Presents New Range of LED Strips and Accessories

LEDVANCE is offering wholesalers a new portfolio of LED strips for an enormous range of professional lighting tasks.

From LEDVANCE GmbH 5 Jul 2019

Linkam Launches New Modular Force Stage (MFS) for Characterising Complex Materials

Market leader in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, has launched the latest version of the tensile stage, the new Modular Force Stage (MFS).

From Linkam Scientific Instruments 5 Jul 2019

Researchers Manipulate Soliton Photonic Waves on a Silicon Chip

A tsunami is capable of holding its wave shape over vast distances across the ocean, preserving its “information” and power far from its origin.

4 Jul 2019

Mid-Infrared QCL Improves Signal Quality of Spectroscopic Measurements

Scientists performed an analytical technique called spectroscopic ellipsometry by using a very bright mid-infrared laser.

3 Jul 2019

New Device Enables Low-Cost and Clinically Accurate Eye Scans

A portable and low-cost optical coherence tomography, or OCT, scanner has been developed by biomedical engineers at Duke University. The tool has great potential to bring vision-saving technology to underserved areas, both across the United States and abroad.

1 Jul 2019

New Model to Calculate Pressure Distributions in Multi-Layer Polishing Tools

Optical smoothing is considered as an extremely effective technique to limit mid-to-high spatial frequency errors produced by sub-aperture polishing technologies controlled by computers.

1 Jul 2019

MIPT Researchers Create Cathodoluminescent Lamp Rivaling Cheap LED Bulbs

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have designed and tested a prototype cathodoluminescent lamp for general lighting.

29 Jun 2019

Design and Control Software Update: Meet Updated PHAROS

Today the largest manufacturer of femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifiers (OPAs) and Non-Collinear OPAs (NOPAs) Lithuania based company LIGHT CONVERSION is releasing update for femtosecond lasers PHAROS with new software interface and integrated power supply.

From Light Conversion 29 Jun 2019