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Combining Thin Layers of Different Materials Greatly Enhances Photovoltaic Effect

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice.

21 Jul 2021

High-Speed Cameras Used to Capture Bubbles Popping Like Blooming Flowers

The oil industry, pharmaceutical companies and bioreactor manufacturers all face one common enemy: bubbles. Bubbles can form during the manufacturing or transport of various liquids, and their formation and rupture can cause significant issues in product quality.

20 Jul 2021

New Zealand Aviation Security Service to Introduce UV Light Tray Disinfection with Smiths Detection

Smiths Detection today announced with New Zealand Aviation Security Service that it has completed deployment of 18 units of its new Ultraviolet light tray disinfection kit to help enhance public health and safety at airports across the country.

From Smiths Detection Group Ltd. 20 Jul 2021

Scientists Ramping up Net Speeds to 40 Tb/s

An industrial research collaboration between scientists and engineers from Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany have found a way to pack more data into existing internet cables to ramp up speeds to 40 Tb per second – fast enough to download 5,000 Standard Definition Netflix films in a second.

20 Jul 2021

PhotonicLEAP Awarded Over €5m in European Funding to Develop Disruptive Low-Cost Photonic Packaging and Test Technologies

PhotonicLEAP, a European Horizon 2020 collaborative research project, has been awarded over €5 million Euros in funding from the European Commission to develop disruptive technologies that will drive down the cost of integrated photonic packaging and test processes.

20 Jul 2021

Lasers that Harvest the Best of Both InP and SiN Worlds – Chilas Product Launch

Providing top-rated lasers for high-end customers is the core of the Chilas mission. For those with demanding laser requirements for their product, this is an opportunity to attend Chilas’ new product launch and be among the first to discover the possibilities it can offer.

20 Jul 2021

RIT Scientists Receive Grant to Study the Limits of Spectral Remote Sensing Imaging Systems

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is funding a team of Rochester Institute of Technology imaging scientists to study the limits of spectral remote sensing imaging systems.

19 Jul 2021

New Label-Free, Non-Invasive Optical Microscopy to Image Deep Inside the Brain

Diseases in the central nervous system (CNS), like Alzheimer’s disease (AD), show up early at the microscopic, or cellular, level deep within the brain.

19 Jul 2021

New, Simple Technique to Calibrate Optical Tweezers

A newly developed multi-frequency method results in a brief measurement time of just a few seconds rather than the traditional 10 minutes.

19 Jul 2021

Chromasens 3D Road Surface Inspection Camera Automatically Detects Potholes and Cracks

Manual road surface inspection is a costly, tedious process for municipalities and is strongly subject to interpretation error.

From Chromasens GmbH 19 Jul 2021

New Method to Use Fluorescence to Detect Hydrocarbons and Pesticides in Water

Detecting pesticides and hydrocarbons in water in real-time could be achieved by shining a light beam into potentially contaminated water samples.

16 Jul 2021

Scientists Design a High-Performance Photoelectric Conversion System Using 2D Nanosheets

Two-dimensional “nanosheets” made of bonds between metal atoms and organic molecules are attractive candidates for photoelectric conversion, but get corroded easily.

16 Jul 2021

Researchers Create Performance Art from Temperature-Induced Material Phase Change Microscopy Images

Researchers at Art-Science production company, Ohme, in Brussels, have created a choreographed audio-visual performance, ‘Tales of Entropy’, following the physical changes of organic materials as temperature changes (from crystal, to liquid crystal, to liquid), using Linkam temperature controlled stages.

From Linkam Scientific Instruments 16 Jul 2021

Vision Research Launches Phantom T3610 and TMX 5010 Ultrahigh-Speed Cameras with Back Side Illumination

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of digital high-speed imaging systems, introduces two models in its Ultrahigh-speed performance line of Phantom® cameras.

From Vision Research 16 Jul 2021

Learning Aids: Skoltech Method Helps Train Computer Vision Algorithms on Limited Data

Researchers from Skoltech have found a way to help computer vision algorithms process satellite images of the Earth more accurately even with very limited data for training.

16 Jul 2021