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Uniklasers Launch World’s First Laser to Operate With 349 nm Single Frequency

UniKLasers Limited, a leading manufacturer of high precision scientific laser instrumentation, has launched its new ultra-violet (UV) laser – The Duetto 349 – a single frequency DPSS CW device which emits at 349 nanometres (nm) with a 50 mW output – making it the world’s first laser to operate with single frequency at 349 nm.

From Skylark Lasers 12 Feb 2021

Researchers Create High-Torque Light-Powered Actuators

If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, you may see them shift and turn toward the sunlight through the day. It happens slowly, but surely.

11 Feb 2021

2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Awarded for Development of LED Lighting

The 2021 QEPrize is awarded for the creation and development of LED lighting, which forms the basis of all solid-state lighting technology. Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell Dupuis are recognized not only for the global impact of LED and solid-state lighting but also for the tremendous contribution the technology has made, and will continue to make, to reducing energy consumption and addressing climate change.

3 Feb 2021

New Magnet Prototype Meets the Requirements for Use in Light Source Facilities

With a powerful enough light, you can see things that people once thought would be impossible. Large-scale light source facilities generate that powerful light, and scientists use it to create more durable materials, build more efficient batteries and computers, and learn more about the natural world.

29 Jan 2021

CYNORA Announces Availability of Industry’s First Device Test Kits for TADF Deep Green Emitters for Next-Generation OLED Displays

Marking a new innovation trajectory for the OLED industry, CYNORA today announced that device test kits for its Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)-based Deep Green emitter for next-generation OLED displays are now available to customers. The development is an industry-first milestone for TADF technology, and validates CYNORA’s roadmap commitment.

20 Jan 2021

DELO Introduces Compact and More Efficient Control Units for LED Spot Lamps

DELO has launched two new devices for controlling and powering LED curing lamps. The DELOLUX pilot S4i and S4T models allow the use of more powerful lamp heads in an extremely compact design.

From DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA 7 Jan 2021

Researchers Examine Concepts Surrounding the Origins of Light

Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves.

24 Dec 2020

Traffic Light System Intervention Reduces Treatment Inertia in Neurologists

New research reports that one in four clinical decisions by physicians does not meet best practices, but when they reviewed a simple traffic light system before making a clinical decision, uncertainty was minimized by 70% and treatment decisions improved.

17 Dec 2020

Graphene-Based Hybrid Material Enables Efficient Light Conversion of Invisible Light

Nonlinear optical conversion – i.e. the process by which an incident light beam of a certain wavelength turns into rays of different wavelengths, due to its interaction with the material it passes through – is relevant to for many current and future technologies, such as imaging, information storage and processing, telecommunication, quantum technologies, and other fields.

16 Dec 2020

Intelligent Lighting for Maximum Flexibility

A new lighting solution from LEDVANCE has been installed at Siemens Campus Erlangen providing ordinance-compliant, flexible and intelligent lighting in office spaces used for a variety of purposes.

From LEDVANCE GmbH 15 Dec 2020

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