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Optical Device Allows Engineers to Fine Tune the Color of Light

Among the first lessons any grade school science student learns is that white light is not white at all, but rather a composite of many photons, those little droplets of energy that make up light, from every color of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

26 Apr 2021

New LiDAR-Based Augmented Reality Head-Up Display Could Improve Road Safety

Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles.

26 Apr 2021

Research Paves the Way for More Efficient Photocatalysts

Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints and coatings, hydrogen production and CO2 conversion to sustainable fuels.

23 Apr 2021

New Photonics Research Paves the Way for Improved Lasers, Optical Communications

New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed computing and optical communications for the Army.

23 Apr 2021

Hard X-Ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy Used for Investigating Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a medium by creating an interference pattern made of parallel stripes of excitations that can be thermal, electronic, magnetic or even structural.

23 Apr 2021

Metso Outotec Launches Robust Camera Solution for Smelting Furnaces to Increase Safety and Availability

Metso Outotec is launching a robust Furnace Camera to reduce or even eliminate the need to power off or cut the feed to inspect the furnace.

From Metso Outotec Corporation 22 Apr 2021

Research may Pave the Way for Development of More Efficient Optoelectronic Devices

Diodes are widely used electronic devices that act as one-way switches for current. A well-known example is the LED (light-emitting diode), but there is a special class of diodes designed to make use of the phenomenon known as "quantum tunneling".

21 Apr 2021

Nanophotonic Technology Used to Develop Implantable Tool for Optical Imaging of Brain Activity

Tools that allow neuroscientists to record and quantify functional activity within the living brain are in great demand.

20 Apr 2021

Rust can be Used as Photoelectrode Material to Produce Green Hydrogen with Light

Hydrogen will be needed in large quantities as an energy carrier and raw material in the energy system of the future.

20 Apr 2021

Researchers Discover the World's Fastest Photoreversible Exfoliation

Look at any piece of machinery and you will see a complex network of moving parts, or actuators, each with its own function, all working together for a common goal.

20 Apr 2021

New Method Helps Create Colors on Metal that can be Changed, Erased, Rewritten

Scientists are slowly clearing the boundary between science and art by exhibiting how to use a laser to make artistic masterpieces such that they replicate classical brushes and paints.

20 Apr 2021

New Tactics to Illuminate Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter

Astronomers are finding ways for smart alternatives to keep answering basic questions in physics after experiencing the devastating loss of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the usually prohibitive cost of satellite missions.

19 Apr 2021

Graphene Oxide Metalenses Used to Generate Super-Resolved Optical Needle and Multifocal Array

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2021.200031, Researchers led by Professor Baohua Jia at Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia, Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu at National University of Singapore, Singapore and Professor Tian Lan at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China considered the generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalenses.

19 Apr 2021

High-Definition Nuclear Inspection In Colour

Ahlberg Cameras Mini-Rad 30 HD camera with radiation resistant lenses. Resolve Optics reports on its development of a radiation-resistant fixed focus lens for Ahlberg Cameras AB to enable high-definition Nuclear Inspe...

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 19 Apr 2021