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Researchers Create New Technique to Account for Changes in Illumination over Scan

While scanning cathedral stained-glass windows, scientists from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology developed a novel method to compensate for fluctuations in illumination. This technique might be extended to other culturally significant objects to help frame their colors in the most authentic way possible.

28 Mar 2022

LEC Components Made Flexible for Effective Emission of Light

Scientists from Umeå University and Uppsala University have formulated a new technique to regulate the light emission of light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). details of the study have been published in Advanced Materials.

18 Mar 2022

Bonding Exercise: Quantifying Biexciton Binding Energy

A rare spectroscopy technique performed at Swinburne University of Technology directly quantifies the energy required to bind two excitons together, providing for the first time a direct measurement of the biexciton binding energy in WS2.

2 Mar 2022

Application Optimised Machine Vision Lenses

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21 Feb 2022

Digital Lighting System for Greenhouses Could Cut Electricity Costs

According to a study from scientists at the University of Georgia, a new, internet-linked lighting system for greenhouses could drastically decrease the electrical bill of a farmer.

3 Feb 2022

Researchers Provide a Comprehensive Picture of White-Light Emission from Organic Aggregates

White light, which includes multicolored visible components, affects the rhythm of organisms and has the potential for advanced applications in communications, as well as illumination and display. Development and commercialization of white-light emitters based on inorganic diodes and phosphors has progressed rapidly within the past few decades.

12 Jan 2022

Meta-Optics with Waveguide Technologies Propels Photonic Integrated Circuits to New Heights

Comprised of judiciously engineered microscopic photonic structures with subwavelength features, the concept of metasurface and metamaterials have proven fruitful results in the realm of meta-optics. Previous research attentions are mainly devoted to applying meta-structures to tailor light in free space and develop relevant devices and applications.

28 Dec 2021

Experts Evaluate Recent Accomplishments in the Field of Holographic 3D Display

The pioneers of holography, Gabor, Leith, Upatnieks, and Denisyuk, predicted very early that the ultimate 3D display will be based on this technique. This conviction was rooted on the fact that holography is the only approach that can render all optical cues interpreted by the human visual system.

28 Dec 2021

NTT: Realization of Modularized Quantum Light Source Toward Fault-tolerant Large-scale Universal Optical Quantum Computers

NTT Corporation in cooperation with the University of Tokyo (President: Teruo Fujii, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) and RIKEN has developed an optical fiber-coupled quantum light source (squeezed light source), which is a key technology for realizing a fault-tolerant large-scale universal optical quantum computer.

24 Dec 2021

Allying Meta-Structures with Diverse Optical Waveguides for Integrated Photonics and More

Comprised of judiciously engineered microscopic photonic structures with subwavelength features, the concept of metasurface and metamaterials have proven fruitful results.

13 Dec 2021

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