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Excelitas Technologies Announces Agreement to Acquire Axsun Technologies

Excelitas Technologies, a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized photonic solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Axsun Technologies (Billerica, MA U...

From Excelitas Technology 13 Dec 2018

Delta Optical Thin Film A/S continues expansion with appointment of distributor for United Kingdom and Ireland

Delta Optical Thin Film, world leading manufacturer of advanced optical interference filters, including unique Continuously Variable Filters, is pleased to announce it has signed a distribution contract with UK-based com...

From Delta Optical Thin Film A/S 13 Dec 2018

New Method Throws Light on Cells Communication in Human Disease

Researchers at the University of York have formulated a new method that makes use of light to learn how cells communicate in human disease.

12 Dec 2018

Researchers Use Frequency Combs to Enable Chemical Analysis on Tiny Spaces

A majority of the lasers have just one color. All the photons emitted by a laser have precisely the same wavelength. However, there exist lasers that emit more complicated light.

11 Dec 2018

Researchers Discover Single Material Capable of Producing White Light

Physicists at The University of Toledo are part of an international team of researchers who discovered a single material that yields white light, paving the way to a new frontier in lighting, which accounts for one-fifth of world’s energy consumption.

5 Dec 2018

OmniVision’s Imaging Solution Enables Compact Design and Long Run Time for the OPKIX One Wearable Video Camera

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, in collaboration with OPKIX, maker of compact wearable smart cameras and companion studio editing/sharing applications, today anno...

From OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 3 Dec 2018

Commonly Used Imaging Technique Could Work with Particle Beam Cancer Treatment

For the first time, researchers from the Institute of Radiooncology–OncoRay at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have integrated magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, with a proton beam and thus demonstrated that technically, this oft-used imaging technique can certainly work with particle beam cancer therapies.

30 Nov 2018

New Enhanced, Less- Destructive Approaches Could Improve 3D Imaging Using X-Rays

Scientists reveal two new methods to forming three-dimensional (3D) images using X-rays that could enhance disease-screening, study of very rapid processes and enable analysis of the properties of materials and structural information of opaque objects with unparalleled detail.

30 Nov 2018

$First-Ever Refractive Lens Formed by Jet of Atoms Focuses Extreme Ultraviolet Beams$

First-Ever Refractive Lens Formed by Jet of Atoms Focuses Extreme Ultraviolet Beams

Researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) have created the first refractive lens with the ability to focus extreme ultraviolet (XUV) beams. Rather than using a glass lens, which is non-transparent in the XUV region, the scientists have exhibited a lens formed by a jet of atoms.

29 Nov 2018

Novel Technique to Achieve Holographic Control of Light Using Optical Trapping and Tweezing

When a beam of light is made to shine on your hand, nothing much is felt, except for a little bit of heat produced by the beam.

28 Nov 2018

Single-Ion, Light-Activated Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide into “Building Block” Molecules

Researchers have identified a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that is capable of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into “building block” molecules that can possibly be used for producing useful chemicals.

27 Nov 2018

Digital Surf and Image Metrology announce MountainsSPIP 8TM software

Since SPM specialists Image Metrology and Digital Surf joined forces in 2014, development teams from both companies have been working hard to create the next generation of SPM image analysis software. The new product lin...

From Digital Surf 27 Nov 2018

New Flow Focusing Technology Facilitates Success of First Experiment Performed by European XFEL Project

The Flow Focusing technology (also referred to as Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle [GDVN]), has been one of the core elements in the triumph of the first experiments performed by the European XFEL project, the largest source of X-rays in the world currently.

26 Nov 2018

Innovative Light Modulator Could Help Cover Last Mile Efficiently and Cost-Effectively

An ETH Zurich research team has created a new light modulator with which data relayed through millimeter waves can be directly changed into light pulses for optical fibers.

22 Nov 2018

New Approach to Creating Highly Efficient Organic-Light-Emitting Diodes

Researchers have found that semiconducting molecules with unpaired electrons, called as ‘radicals’ can be used to fabricate highly efficient organic-light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), manipulating their quantum mechanical ‘spin’ property to surpass efficiency boundaries for traditional, non-radical materials.

22 Nov 2018