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Special Holograms can be Easily Inserted into Solar Panel Package

The energy available from sunlight is 10,000 times more than what is needed to supply the world's energy demands. Sunlight has two main properties that are useful in the design of renewable energy systems.

26 May 2021

Optical Forging can Make Graphene Ultrastiff

Graphene is an ultrathin material characterized by its ultrasmall bending modulus, superflimsiness.

26 May 2021

Large Diameter Reference Optical Flats

Optical Surfaces Ltd, a leading supplier of high precision reference optical flats to leading research establishments and national standards laboratories worldwide, reports on growing demand for larger (350 - 600mm clear aperture) diameters.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 26 May 2021

CEA-Leti Unveils World’s First Autonomous Imager for Smartphones, Smart-Home Appliances and Automobiles

CEA-Leti today announced the world’s first autonomous imager technology that activates smartphones and small appliances through face recognition or other specific patterns.

From CEA-Leti 26 May 2021

New Method Enables Scanning Electron Microscopes to See Real-Time Growth of Graphene

Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed a new method that enables common laboratory scanning electron microscopes to see graphene growing over a microchip surface in real time.

25 May 2021

Reflectionless Metasurface can Offer an Accessible Platform for Terahertz Flat Optics

Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may eventually be used in practical applications to send, receive, and manipulate light and radio waves in the terahertz waveband (THz).

25 May 2021

New Optofluidic Technology Enables Reliable Manipulation of Droplets

Microfluidic technologies have seen great advances over the past few decades in addressing applications such as biochemical analysis, pharmaceutical development, and point-of-care diagnostics.

24 May 2021

New Platform Equipped with Light Source and Imager can Switch Between Reflective and Transmissive Sensing

One of the key aspects of academic and industrial research today is non-destructive imaging, a technique in which an object or sample is imaged (using light) without causing any damage to it.

24 May 2021

Ti:Sapphire Laser Crystals are Key for Super-Intense Ultrafast Laser Devices

A group of researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently came up with a new theory on the source of residual infrared absorption in Ti:sapphire laser crystals.

24 May 2021

Ultrathin Carbon Nanotube Films Could Enable Terahertz Polarization Rotation

It's always good when your hard work reflects well on you. With the discovery of the giant polarization rotation of light, that is literally so.

21 May 2021

New Light-Detecting Device can More Accurately Amplify Weak Signals Bouncing off of Faraway Objects

Realizing the potential of self-driving cars hinges on technology that can quickly sense and react to obstacles and other vehicles in real time.

21 May 2021

Researchers Discover New Way to Transform CO2 into Light-Emitting Carbon

A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa has found a way to use visible light to transform carbon dioxide gas, or CO2, into solid carbon forms that emit light.

21 May 2021

A Promising Engineering Tool for Microring Lasers

Problems for eigenmodes of a two-layered dielectric microcavity have become widespread thanks to the research of A.I. Nosich, E.I. Smotrova, S.V. Boriskina and others since the beginning of the 21st century.

20 May 2021

Microscopic Diamond Tracers can Provide Information via MRI and Optical Fluorescence Simultaneously

When doctors or scientists want to peer into living tissue, there's always a trade-off between how deep they can probe and how clear a picture they can get.

20 May 2021

New Method Helps Identify the Contributors and Origins of Stray Light on Space Telescopes

A team of researchers at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) of the University of Liège has just developed a method to identify the contributors and origins of stray light on space telescopes.

20 May 2021