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Teledyne Princeton Introduces New OEM Spectroscopy Detector

Teledyne Princeton Instruments, a Teledyne Technologies company, announces the release of LANSIS—a new spectroscopy detector designed specifically for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 30 Mar 2022

Analyzing the Interconnection Between Defects and Thermal Quenching in Quasi-2d Perovskite Emitters

Low-cost, strong photoluminescence quantum yield, and excellent color purity define metal halide perovskites. Perovskite light-emitting diodes have made rapid progress in recent years, with intriguing applications in lighting and display.

29 Mar 2022

Simple Design Plus Smart Engineering Enable Simple Cameras to See in 3D

Regular image sensors, the same as the billion or so already fixed into almost all smartphones currently in use, capture color and light intensity.

29 Mar 2022

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

Physicists Discover the Maximum Speed of Signal Transmission in Microchips

The maximum speed of signal transmission in microchips is about one petaherz (one million gigahertz), which is about 100,000 times faster than current transistors.

28 Mar 2022

HKUMed Develops Photo-Responsive Nanomedicine for Light-Controlled Colorectal Cancer Therapy

A research team from Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed a photo-responsive nanomedicine for light-controlled colorectal cancer therapy.

28 Mar 2022

New Approach for Generating THz Bessel Beams from Superluminal Laser Plasma Filaments

Terahertz (THz) radiation from laser plasmas features with ultrabroad bandwidth, which is attractive for many applications. Significant efforts have been made to enhance its conversion efficiency, tune its frequency spectrum, and even manipulate its polarization.

28 Mar 2022

Researchers Explore the Speed Limit of Optoelectronics

How fast can electronics be? When computer chips work with ever shorter signals and time intervals, at some point they come up against physical limits.

28 Mar 2022

Radiant Vision Systems Announces New XRE Lens Solution with Electronic Focus for Near-Eye Display Testing

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of visual test and measurement solutions for light sources and displays, announces the release of its new XRE Lens for near-eye display testing of extended reality (XR) headsets and smart glasses.

From Radiant Vision Systems 28 Mar 2022

Research Sheds Light into Specialty Optical Fibers Based on 3D Printing Technology

Experiments with 3D printing of silica glasses and silica optical fiber performed have recently proven successful. One difficulty in 3D printing silica optical fibers is extending previous findings of small-scale glass “bulk or slice” print from very few millimeters to centimeters.

25 Mar 2022

AI and Ghost Imaging Enhances Super-Resolution Imaging

Super-resolution methods based on frequency shift can boost the resolution of microscope images by two times. STORM, STED, and other methods in fluorescence microscopy can boost spatial resolution to more than 10 times the diffraction limit, and the latter received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014.

25 Mar 2022

Photonic Quantum Memristor may be the Missing Link Between AI and Quantum Computing

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, with applications such as speech interpretation, image recognition, medical diagnosis, and many more. At the same time, quantum technology has been proven capable of computational power well beyond the reach of even the world's largest supercomputer.

25 Mar 2022

Lights Makes Electrons Bend in Bilayer Graphene

The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical current.

25 Mar 2022

New Analog Photonic Correlator can Help Locate Radio Signal-Emitting Devices

Researchers have developed a new analog photonic correlator that can be used to locate an object transmitting a radio signal.

25 Mar 2022

Two-Photon MINFLUX Pushes the Boundaries of Achievable Resolution in Optical Nanoscopes

While many researchers use optical nanoscopes for their research, they are currently limited in their resolution due to how light diffracts. While techniques have been developed to combat this, there are still improvements. One research team in Beijing believes that multi-photon microscopy is the answer.

25 Mar 2022