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ficonTEC Q4 2020 Webinar Mini-Series

As an extension of our ficonTEC Insider Blog channel, we will be hosting a pilot webinar series through until the end of Q4 2020.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 14 Oct 2020

A Flash of Light to Identify Tumors: The Results of the VIBRA Project of the Politecnico di Milano

Funded by ERC and just completed, the project uncovers the cellular mechanisms underlying various diseases thanks to a new optical microscopy technique

14 Oct 2020

New GigE and USB3 Cameras Designed for Use in Challenging Lighting Conditions

Teledyne Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision, is pleased to announce the extension of its Teledyne DALSA Genie Nano-1G Camera Series and Teledyne Lumenera Lt Series USB3 cameras based on third generation Sony® Pregius® Global Shutter CMOS sensors.

14 Oct 2020

New Method for Assessing Traumatic Brain Injury at Point of Care

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed a technique to detect traumatic brain injury at the point of care.

13 Oct 2020

Surface Phonon-Polaritons can Help Nanostructured Devices Keep Their Cool

The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices is causing cooling of the device structures to become increasingly challenging.

13 Oct 2020

New Deposition Approach to Develop Grain-Boundary-Free Ultra-Thin Semiconductors

Moore's law is an empirical suggestion describing that the number of transistors doubles every few years in integrated circuits.

13 Oct 2020

Researchers Reveal Reason Behind Jet Formation at the Tip of Laser Optical Fiber

When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high temperature, high speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future.

13 Oct 2020

Researchers to Build Optical Communications Station in Australia

Scientists are set to build an advanced optical communications station in Western Australia. The new station will be able to receive high-speed data transmissions from space.

12 Oct 2020

Close-Up Monitoring of Radioactive Processes

The Model 214 Non-Browning fixed focus lens from Resolve Optics is designed for close-up monitoring of radioactive processes in nuclear power, reprocessing and waste storage plants.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 12 Oct 2020

New Breakthrough in Developing Miniaturized Organic Semiconductor

Field Effect Transistors are the core building blocks of modern electronics such as integrated circuits, computer CPUs and display backplanes.

9 Oct 2020

Researchers Find a Way to Generate Single, Identical Photons

Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible.

9 Oct 2020

Scientists Connect Optical Atomic Clocks Across the Earth Using Signals from Distant Stars

Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents.

9 Oct 2020

UNSW Researchers Create Semiconductor Qubits with Lowest Noise Level on Record

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have demonstrated the lowest noise level on record for a semiconductor quantum bit, or qubit. The research was published in Advanced Materials.

9 Oct 2020

World's Fastest UV Camera can Record Photons in the UV Range

The team of Professor Jinyang Liang, a specialist in ultrafast imaging at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, has developed the fastest camera in the world capable of recording photons in the ultraviolet range in real time.

8 Oct 2020

Researchers Engineer Optical Fibers with 2D Materials

At the latest since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2D materials - nanosheets with atomic thickness - have been a hot topic in science.

8 Oct 2020