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New Wearable Headset for Noninvasive Optical Neuroimaging

Recent advances in brain imaging techniques facilitate accurate, high-resolution observations of the brain and its functions.

19 Jan 2022

Researchers Build an Ultrafast Quantum Battery

Quantum batteries are a new class of energy storage devices that operate according to the principles of quantum physics, the science that studies the infinitely small where the laws of classical physics do not always apply.

19 Jan 2022

Real-Time, In Situ Monitoring of Early Cellular Apoptosis by Using a Nano-Optical Device

The biological intracellular microenvironment is complex, made up of various cell compartments and intracellular substances. To fully characterize the physiological function of living cells, one of the key factors is the development of micro/nanoprobes for subcellular measurement.

19 Jan 2022

Scientists Discover New Photonic Effect in Semiconducting Nanohelices

A new photonic effect in semiconducting helical particles with nanoscale dimensions has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Bath. The observed effect has the potential to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines and photonic technologies.

19 Jan 2022

New Technique to Convert Greenhouse Gasses into Clean Energy Using Photonics

A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.

19 Jan 2022

Blue LEDs Find Potential Use in Pharmaceutical and Photoelectronic Development

The need for precious metals has been eliminated by the advancement of a new method that has helped create a highly useful chemical subunit. This possibly results in the sustainable production of electronics and pharmaceuticals.

18 Jan 2022

Radiant Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation in Imaging Metrology

REDMOND, Wash. – January 17, 2022 – Radiant Vision Systems announces its 30th anniversary as a leading provider of optical test and measurement solutions for displays and light sources. In celebration of this...

From Radiant Vision Systems 18 Jan 2022

Drug Development Could Be Accelerated Using New Photonic Effect

Twisted semiconductor nanostructures turn red light into twisted blue light in minuscule volumes, which may help create chiral drugs.

17 Jan 2022

Spin Qubits can be Potentially Useful for Quantum Networks that Employ Optical Fibers

Quantum computers may be able to solve science problems that are impossible for today's fastest conventional supercomputers. Quantum sensors may be able to measure signals that cannot be measured by today's most sensitive sensors. Quantum bits (qubits) are the building blocks for these devices.

17 Jan 2022

First-of-Its-Kind Smart Catalyst Turns Off When Illuminated with Light

Catalysts are compounds that enable and accelerate desired chemical reactions without themselves degrading and are pivotal in virtually all of applied chemistry.

17 Jan 2022

Research Could Open Up a New Route for the Realization of High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronics

Semiconductor electronic devices can be made of either inorganic crystals, formed by the strong bonding of atoms and ions, or organic crystals, which demonstrate weaker bonds held together by van der Waals forces (weak electric forces of attraction between neutral atoms or molecules that do not share a chemical bond).

17 Jan 2022

New Method Combines Ghost Imaging and X-Ray Fluorescence to Produce Chemical Element Maps

Researchers have developed a new, focus-free technique for creating chemical maps using x-ray fluorescence.

17 Jan 2022

Waters Accelerates Quantitative Mass Spectrometry with New Application on waters_connect Informatics Platform

Waters Corporation today announced it is expanding its waters_connect™ informatics software platform to support customers analyzing food and environmental samples with Waters’ tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers.

From Waters Corporation 13 Jan 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

TU Wien Produces an Extremely Simple and Compact Source of Terahertz Radiation

Terahertz radiation has a wavelength of typically a little less than one millimetre - a technically difficult range. Electromagnetic waves with longer wavelengths can be generated with ordinary electronic components (such as transistors) and antennas.

12 Jan 2022