IMEC's associated laboratory at the Ghent University, INTEC, has made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible to make foils that sense changes in pressure. Such sensing, skin-like foils could be used for monitoring irregular or moving surfaces, e.g. in robots, pliable machinery, or as an artificial skin.
It's TAITRONICS time! That's right the days when every hotel room is booked out, and parking space is taken. This event, its 34th cycle, unfolds at the brand new TWTC NANGANG Exhibition Hall from October 7 to 11.
A new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging is being established at the University of Colorado at Boulder this fall with the awarding of a $3.2 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
Researchers at the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University and the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University were recently awarded a $3.7 million grant from The National Eye Institute to study depression in patients diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Cymer, Inc., the market's leading developer of light sources used to pattern advanced semiconductor chips, announced today that Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, a non-profit German foundation also dedicated to recognizing technical innovations in laser technology, has awarded two of Cymer's researchers with a "Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis" award.
A group of researchers in Lausanne, Switzerland has published a study appearing in the Oct 1 advance online edition of the Journal Nature that shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself.
Syntec Optics, recipient of the prestigious 2008 Frost + Sullivan Growth Excellence Award in the North American polymer optics market, announces new manufacturing capacity that directly correlates with its focus on innovation. Syntec is also actively seeking more staff. To quote the Frost and Sullivan award, "Syntec Optics, through its commitment to innovation and consistent focus on profitability, is rapidly growing at an average annual growth rate of 16%
A team of scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has created the first genetic research model for a microscopic part of the eye that when missing causes blindness. The research appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Researchers at NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Northwestern University have discovered that fiber optic technology can for the very first time effectively measure blood levels in the colonic lining (mucosa) in humans, thus having potential applications for analyzing risk of colon cancer. The study appears in the October 2008 issue of Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute.
Lucid, Inc. today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to market its VivaScope® System. VivaScope confocal imagers provide noninvasive, in vivo cellular resolution images of skin and are now specifically cleared "...for review by physicians to assist in forming a clinical judgment."
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