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More Cost-Effective Method for Measuring Photovoltaics Efficiency Using Thermal Imaging

Researchers have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with an infrared (IR) imager to detect hotspots on solar panels.

16 Aug 2022

High-Speed Imaging Accelerates Dust Explosion Investigation

In a pre-proof study from the Process Safety and Environmental Protection journal, researchers have implemented highspeed, broadband and species-specific chemiluminescence imaging diagnostics to explore similarities and differences between organic and metal powder ignition kernel development.

12 Aug 2022

Making Soft Optoelectronic Sensors More Resilient

In an article published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers have presented an infrared (IR)-based highly flexible soft optoelectronic sensor with pigmented cladding that is efficient in multimodal sensing.

12 Aug 2022

Study Introduces New LiDAR Signal Denoising Method

To find the most suitable denoising method for LiDAR signals, a study published in Sensors compared various single and joint denoising algorithms. The result indicates that the WT-VMD joint algorithm has the best noise reduction effect, the highest signal-to-noise ratio, and can increase LiDAR signal inversion accuracy.

12 Aug 2022

Algorithms Streamlining Optical Systems Design

A study published in ACS Photonics discusses how deep learning and conventional optimization-based methods create a new conceptual foundation for freeform optical engineering.

11 Aug 2022

Novel Blue Phosphor Material Could Speed Up WLED Lighting Industrialization

A prototype LED chip-pumped system employing blue phosphor reported by a recently published study in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering can create full-spectrum warm white light with diminished blue light intensity. The proposed blue phosphor has the potential to accelerate the manufacturing of human-centric WLED lighting.

11 Aug 2022

New Method to Pattern Gold Nanorods Using Deep-UV Lithography

In an article published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, the researchers presented a novel method to pattern gold nanorods' (GNRs) assemblies on substrates and studied the near-field coupling induced by the aggregation of the nanoparticles.

11 Aug 2022

Using a Digital Optical Phase-Locked Loop to Generate Linear Frequency Swept Optical Waves

In a pre-proof study from the journal Optics Communications, the researchers present a method for generating linearly frequency swept optical waves using a digital optical phase-locked loop (OPLL).

10 Aug 2022

How Optical Lattice Illumination Patterns Help Axial Resolution and Optical Sectioning

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers evaluated the variations between Gaussian and lattice light sheets related to beam homogeneity, axial precision, transverse resolution, and photo-bleaching, using computations and experimental measurements on fixed cells.

10 Aug 2022

$Study Sheds Light on Optical Refractive Index Sensing of High Sensitivity and Ultra-High FOM$

Study Sheds Light on Optical Refractive Index Sensing of High Sensitivity and Ultra-High FOM

An Optics Communications pre-proof study proposed a novel optical refractive index sensor design based on electromagnetic multipolar quasi-bound states in the continuum (BICs) to enhance its figure of merit (FOM). This creates opportunities for ultra-high FOM optical refractive index sensing with high sensitivity.

9 Aug 2022