Blind individuals can have visual advantage through special glasses that intensify near-infrared signals to a device inserted within the retina. With further developments, this method can be used to successfully restore vision for the blind in future.
By Will Soutter
18 May 2012
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted a five-year, $2.6 M to Thomas Jefferson University’s Department of Radiology as well as Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center to study an efficient revolutionary method, through which prostate cancers as well as recurrent diseases can be precisely identified and staged, without the need for more confirmation biopsies.
By G.P. Thomas
18 May 2012
NLT Technologies, along with Renesas Electronics in America and Europe, recently declared the construction of a new 9.0-in (23 cm diagonal) full high-definition (FHD) LCD module.
By G.P. Thomas
18 May 2012
The Magnalight PML-40W-PAR46 vehicle mount LED light generates powerful low amp utilization, capable of replacing vehicle lights and incandescent equipment. It has been widely deployed by operators in law enforcement, military, and industrial services and professional utility.
By Will Soutter
18 May 2012
LED light bulbs have been a major part of lighting industry. In order to go green, LED light bulbs replace the existing bulbs, thereby promoting green technology in the environment. Compared to the traditional incandescent bulb, LEDs consume minimal energy, followed by energy transfer into light.
By Will Soutter
18 May 2012
Engineers at Brown University and QD Vision Inc. have created nanoscale single crystals that can produce the red, green, or blue laser light needed in digital displays.
Zephyr Photonics today announced that it has received accreditation as a Category 1A Trusted Source by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA.
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical solutions to the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce the first UK workshop at their new premises in Swavesey, Cambridge. Run in partnership with leading analytical instrument company, Agilent Technologies, the free-to-attend meeting will focus on portable & handheld molecular spectroscopy.
Kansas State University scientists and an international team of researchers are now able to observe double ionization events at attosecond timescale, thus paving the way to better understand the interactions between light and matter.
By Will Soutter
17 May 2012
Purdue University researchers have discovered a way to synthesize metamaterials without using conventional gold or silver, which are expensive and incompatible with semiconductor production processes.
By Will Soutter
17 May 2012
Jenoptik's Lasers and Material Processing division exhibits its laser sources and laser machines to promote effective and innovative photovoltaic production in the markets of Asia.
By G.P. Thomas
16 May 2012
Following six-day long technical and business program promoting the R&D segments of lasers and electro-optics, the CLEO: 2012 was drawn to closure in San Jose. World-class engineers, researchers and business professionals delivered presentations based on optical sensing, ultrafast lasers, OCT, and nanophotonic devices.
By Will Soutter
16 May 2012
Canon Australia recently declared that the EF8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM interchangeable lens has been designated in Japan to receive the Camera Grand Prix 2012 “Lens of the Year Award.”
By Will Soutter
16 May 2012
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, along with economy and science partners, has won the ‘Stifterverband science prize’ in Aachen on May 8, 2012.
By G.P. Thomas
16 May 2012
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are now able to study an electron’s removal from an atom by a powerful laser beam with a time resolution of below 10 as.
By Will Soutter
16 May 2012