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Technique to Develop Class of Optical Materials and Devices

A method for developing new categories of optical materials and devices, which would enable the creation of cloaking/light bending devices has been devised.

19 Jan 2018

Powerful Spectroscopy Tool to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life

Scientists have created a powerful new spectroscopy instrument to assist in the search for extra-terrestrial life.

19 Jan 2018

Innovative Micro-Spectrometer Might Make Its Way into Smartphone in the Future

An innovative spectrometer, small enough to be inexpensively and easily incorporated into a smartphone, gets us one step closer to checking whether food is fresh, the quality of ambient air, or whether a lump is malignant.

21 Dec 2017

New Detector Module Further Enhances the Efficiency of Using Beam Time

Beam time at a neutron instrument is considered to be important – generally, users have just a few days for their measurements. For an experiment, scientists frequently travel from other countries or even continents. They naturally want to make the most use of these days for their research.

4 Dec 2017

Diagnosing Tumors and Other Pathologies by Adopting Microspectroscopy

Very similar to the way chemical compositions and mechanical characteristics are basically significant in buildings, the cells constituting living organisms have various disparate characteristics and shapes based their state and function.

17 Nov 2017

Princeton Instruments' Versatile New SpectraPro HRS-500 High-Resolution Imaging Spectrograph with Exclusive ResXtreme Spectral Deconvolution Technology

Princeton Instruments is pleased to introduce the SpectraPro HRS-500, our most recent addition to the SpectraPro HRS series of spectrographs and monochromators.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 25 Oct 2017

10th European Short Course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”

The course held by PicoQuant offers an in-depth introduction into time-resolved microscopy techniques through lectures and practical sessions.

From Picoquant GmbH 24 Oct 2017

$New Technique Helps Carve Optical Diffraction Gratings from Pure Diamonds$

New Technique Helps Carve Optical Diffraction Gratings from Pure Diamonds

EPFL Researchers have developed a novel technique to microscopically cut diamonds into a specific shape and smooth them down at an atomic level. Thanks to this latest method, optical diffraction gratings with incredibly smooth surfaces can now be manufactured from pure diamonds.

5 Sep 2017

Researchers Create Compact Mass Spectrometer Capable of Analyzing Mars' Atmosphere

BYU researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars’ atmosphere — and that’s just one of its myriad possible uses.

1 Sep 2017

Researchers Succeed in Photoelectron Spectroscopy Under Real Atmospheric Pressure

For the first time in the world, researchers, from the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells, University of Electro-Communications, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, and JASRI (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute), have enhanced an ambient-pressure photoelectron spectroscopy instrument by using hard X-rays produced at SPring-8 and succeeded in photoelectron spectrometry under real atmospheric pressure.

28 Jun 2017