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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

Alluxa’s New Catalog of Products with Extended Spectral Performance from UV to IR

Alluxa, Inc., a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies, announces the expansion of the online product catalog featuring hard-coated specialty filters with ext...

From Alluxa 19 Apr 2022

New Machine Learning System Could Speed Up the Production of Advanced Solar Cells

Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today's silicon-based solar photovoltaics. They hold the promise of panels that are far thinner and lighter, that could be made with ultra-high throughput at room temperature instead of at hundreds of degrees, and that are cheaper and easier to transport and install.

18 Apr 2022

Scientists Develop Ultrathin Wide-Angle Camera with Flat Metalenses

Researchers have developed a novel compact camera that uses a variety of metalenses—flat nano-patterned surfaces used to modulate light—to capture high-quality wide-angle photos. The novel technique could allow wide-angle cameras to be included in smartphones and portable imaging equipment for vehicles such as cars or drones by removing the bulky and heavy lenses currently required for this type of photography.

15 Apr 2022

New Microscopy Approach can Make the Smallest Objects Clearly Visible Without Fluorescence

When cities transform into a colorful world of lights as darkness falls, it's often only possible to estimate their contours, which depending on the perspective can draw the attention to key details or trivia.

15 Apr 2022

Rapid Fabrication of Optical Interconnects using New Polymer Materials

Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. The polymers can be used to easily create interconnects between photonic chips and optical printed circuit boards, the light-based equivalent of electronic printed circuit boards.

15 Apr 2022

Researchers Develop a Tandem Solar Cell that Achieves Record Efficiency

A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 per cent efficiency – measured according to the fraction of photons converted into electricity (i.e. electrons). This sets a new world record as the highest efficiency achieved so far with this combination of organic and perovskite-based absorbers.

15 Apr 2022

High-Speed and Cost-Effective Dual 10GigE Line Scan Camera from Chromasens

Offering CCD quality at a CMOS price, the new Chromasens allPIXA evo 8K DXGE Color X camera supports the most challenging color line-scan vision tasks, such as food, PCB, and EV battery inspection, and is especially effective in high-speed web and print verification where it reduces waste, improves quality, and ensures color precision.

From Chromasens GmbH 14 Apr 2022

Researchers Use Modular Waveguide-Based Light Source to Generate Strongly Nonclassical Light

For the first time, researchers have successfully generated strongly nonclassical light using a modular waveguide-based light source. The achievement represents a crucial step toward creating faster and more practical optical quantum computers.

13 Apr 2022