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Newly Developed Laser Diode Benches to Power Franco-German Satellite MERLIN

MERLIN, the Franco-German satellite, is scheduled for launch into space in 2025 to quantify the concentration of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere—a milestone in climatic studies.

17 Jul 2020

Researchers Use Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microstructures to Build Light-Powered Micro-Tool

Researchers at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, used the liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a series of micro-tools grown on optical fibers.

16 Jul 2020

Hybrid Circuit Allows Wideband Actuation on Photonic Waveguides with Ultralow Electrical Power

Piezoelectric materials can convert electrical voltage to mechanical displacement and vice versa. They are ubiquitous in modern wireless communication networks such as in cellphones.

16 Jul 2020

Lidar Technology can Enable Higher-Resolution Detection of Nearby Fast-Moving Objects

A self-driving car has a hard time recognizing the difference between a toddler and a brown bag that suddenly appears into view because of limitations in how it senses objects using lidar.

16 Jul 2020

Ultra-Fast Extreme Ultraviolet Lasers Measure Properties of Very Thin Materials

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.

16 Jul 2020

Radiant Presents a Method for Improving Accuracy in Pixel-Level Measurement

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of photometric imaging solutions for light and display measurement, announces that it will present a technical paper during the 2020 Display Week Symposium taking place online from August 3-7.

From Radiant Vision Systems 16 Jul 2020

Spectrograph to Record Near-IR Spectrum of Stars in a Single Exposure

Optical Surfaces Ltd reports delivery to the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) of high precision disperser prisms and folding mirror components that lie at the heart of the ground breaking SPIRou / SPIP near infrared spectrograph.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 16 Jul 2020

Zero- to Ultralow-Field NMR Spectroscopy to Observe Reactions in Metal Containers

The technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used in an extensive range of applications.

16 Jul 2020

IDEMIA Wins the Security Industry Association (SIA) Award for the Best New Biometric Product for Its VisionPass Advanced Facial Recognition Device

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, today announces that VisionPass, its newly launched advanced facial recognition device, won the SIA New Product Showcase Award in the Biometric category, at a virtual ceremony held on July 9th.

From IDEMIA 16 Jul 2020

Home-Grown Tech: Australian Collaboration to Deliver World-Leading Gyroscope Technology

Australian researchers and industry partners will collaborate to design and manufacture the world’s most precise, compact and cost-effective gyroscope, in a new $8.7 million project.

From Advanced Navigation 16 Jul 2020

UniKLasers Targets Wide Range of Applications with Launch of Powerful Single Frequency Red Laser Series

UniKLasers Limited, a leading manufacturer of high precision scientific laser instrumentation, has launched a second-generation series of its Solo 640 range of laser equipment,offering greater precision and feature enhancement in areas reliant on single frequency laser technology such as high-resolution Holography, Interferometry, Raman and Brillouin Spectroscopy.

From Skylark Lasers 16 Jul 2020

Cerno Bioscience Releases GC/ID V2.0 Software for Highly Confident GC/MS Compound ID

Cerno Bioscience announced today that it has released version 2.0 of its innovative MassWorks Rx GC/ID software. GC/ID is a fully automated data processing software that enables dramatic improvements for GC/MS qualitative analysis.

From Cerno Bioscience 16 Jul 2020

Cerno Bioscience Releases Latest Version of Its Mass Spec Software

Cerno Bioscience announced today that it has released the first shipments of its innovative mass spec calibration and analysis software, MassWorks Version 6.0. The software boasts a host of new features and improvements that extend the versatility of the software including support for Agilent OpenLab data

From Cerno Bioscience 16 Jul 2020

Vector Vortex Beams are Suitable for Quantum Applications in Medical Technology

Propagate light through any kind of medium - be it free space or biological tissue - and light will scatter.

15 Jul 2020

Perovskite Solar Mini Module Achieves Highest Power Conversion Efficiency

A team of researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has created a perovskite solar mini module that has recorded the highest power conversion efficiency of any perovskite-based device larger than 10 cm2.

15 Jul 2020