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Researchers Create Sapphire Fiber Sensor With Potential to Reduce Emissions

Researchers at Oxford University have invented a sapphire fiber sensor that can withstand severe temperatures, with the potential to increase aerospace and power generating efficiency and reduce emissions significantly.

22 Apr 2022

Air-Lasing-Assisted Coherent Raman Spectroscopy for Greenhouse Gas Detection

The innovative advances in ultrafast laser technologies provide new strategies for remote sensing of atmospheric pollutants and hazardous biochemical agents.

22 Apr 2022

Scientists Find New Way to Overcome Perovskite Solar Cell Scalability Problems

Perovskites are hybrid materials made from metal halides and organic compounds. They have attracted a lot of interest in the field of solar energy because of their light-harvesting capacities combined with a low cost of manufacturing, making them prime candidates for overtake the market from their silicon counterparts.

22 Apr 2022

Breakthrough Invention Could Accelerate the Commercialization of Perovskite Photovoltaic Technology

A research team co-led by chemists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Imperial College London (Imperial College) has developed new, highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.

22 Apr 2022

Researchers Take a Closer Look at Polymer Solar Cells in Operation

Solar cells will doubtless play a significant part in a sustainable energy future. Polymer solar cells (PSCs) specifically provide an excellent option because they are cheap to produce and can be both flexible and semitransparent.

22 Apr 2022

Using Light to Propel Micrometer-Sized Drones

A hand-held laser pointer produces no noticeable recoil forces when it is "fired" - even though it emits a directed stream of light particles. The reason for this is its very large mass compared to the very small recoil impulses that the light particles cause when leaving the laser pointer.

22 Apr 2022

Novel Imaging Approach to Examine and Measure Critical Dimensions of Semiconductor Devices

Semiconductor fabrication technology, used commonly in modern electronics, has been steadily advancing for decades. Today, semiconductor devices have shrunk to miniature sizes but are capable of performing unprecedented complex functions.

22 Apr 2022

New Material Could Lead to the Development of Cheaper and Efficient Solar Cell Devices

New solar cell devices that are cheaper and easier to make could soon make their way to market thanks to materials made at Imperial College London.

22 Apr 2022

KAUST Researchers Shine Light on Perovskite Photophysics

A detailed view of how electrical charges behave inside perovskites could guide efforts to improve the performance of next-generation solar cells based on these materials, KAUST research has shown.

21 Apr 2022

Telescope System for Zettawatt Equivalent Laser

Optical Surfaces Ltd has been selected by the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at the University of Michigan (USA) to provide beam expander optics for its ground-breaking Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS).

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 21 Apr 2022

Prehistoric Creature-Inspired Tiny Lenses to See Both Near and Far

The oceans, some five hundred million years ago, were full of trillions of trilobites. Trilobites were distant relatives of the horseshoe crab.

20 Apr 2022

Astronomers Run an All-Sky Camera Network That Scans Sky Meteors

At 11:37 PM on Sunday, April 17th, 2022, a brilliant fireball was seen throughout southern Ontario by a network of all-sky cameras. According to the video data, bits of the meteor are most likely to have landed near the eastern coast of Lake Simcoe, approximately north of the town of Argyle.

20 Apr 2022

Research Develops Ultrawide Bandgap Photodetectors in Real-World Applications

Several technologies and detectors detect and categorize deep UV frequencies that would otherwise be absorbed by the Earth’s ozone layer.

20 Apr 2022

Specialist Optics for Nuclear Systems Integrators

Drawing upon over 25-year experience of the nuclear industry – Resolve Optics can quickly adapt existing designs to produce optimised non-browning fixed focus and zoom lenses for Nuclear Systems Integrators supplying monitoring systems to operate in medium and high radiation environments.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 20 Apr 2022

Scientists Take First Step Toward Developing a Micro-Scale Camera for Microrobots

Georgia State University researchers have successfully designed a new type of artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture and allows for greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level. The new research is published in the top journal ACS Nano.

19 Apr 2022