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Novel Double Perovskites Could Help Advance Clean-Energy Applications

High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple of decades with advances in previously difficult experimental techniques and from technologies such as diamond anvils, which squeeze samples of materials between two diamonds at pressures up to millions of times greater than that at the Earth's surface.

1 Jul 2020

Selective Laser Sintering System to Create Complex Blood Vessel Networks

Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body's intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues.

30 Jun 2020

Wasatch Photonics Adds 1600 nm OCT Spectrometer for Deep Tissue Imaging

Wasatch Photonics has expanded its Cobra OCT spectrometer product line with a new 1600 nm OCT spectrometer for deep-tissue, SD-OCT imaging. The Cobra 1600 builds on the company’s existing line of more than 25 off-the-shelf OCT spectrometer models at visible, 800 nm, 1050 nm, and 1300 nm wavelengths, with camera speeds up to 250 kHz.

From Wasatch Photonics, Inc. 30 Jun 2020

New Image Processing Techniques for Microscopes Reduce Post-Processing Time

Scientists have developed new image processing techniques for microscopes that can reduce post-processing time up to several thousand-fold.

30 Jun 2020

New Polarized Light-Matter Interaction Could Help Study Unique Molecules

A scientist might want to do cartwheels upon making a discovery, but this time the discovery itself relies on cartwheels.

30 Jun 2020

New Method to Enhance Versatility and Precision of Atomic Force Microscopy

At the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, scientists have designed a latest technique to enhance the detection ability of nanoscale chemical imaging by making use of atomic force microscopy.

29 Jun 2020

Scientists are Developing Low-Cost Imaging Systems to Help Museums Preserve Historical Collections

Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology are developing affordable imaging systems to help libraries and museums preserve and expand access to their historical collections.

29 Jun 2020

New Molecule can be Incorporated into Existing Workflows for Calcium Imaging

When neurons fire an electrical impulse, they also experience a surge of calcium ions. By measuring those surges, researchers can indirectly monitor neuron activity, helping them to study the role of individual neurons in many different brain functions.

29 Jun 2020

Radiant Webinar Introduces First Software for Backlit Component Inspection

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of automated visual inspection systems for light sources and displays, announces that it will host a webinar to introduce its new VIP™ (Vision Inspection Pack) software—the first solution for backlit component inspection that combines the benefits of photometry for light and color measurement with machine vision for defect detection.

From Radiant Vision Systems 26 Jun 2020

$New Technique to Develop More Precise, Efficient Diffraction Gratings$

New Technique to Develop More Precise, Efficient Diffraction Gratings

The importance of light-based technologies for our society was demonstrated once more in recent weeks.

26 Jun 2020

New Technique to Monitor Quality of Laser Welding in Real Time

Laser welding is a process suitable for joining metals and thermoplastics.

26 Jun 2020

Light Weighted Mirrors

Optical Surfaces Ltd has developed proprietary light weighting techniques that can reduce the weight of a mirror by as much as 60%.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 26 Jun 2020

Laser-Driven Proton Radiography Used to Measure Magnetic Fields in Plasma

The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma instability predicted by the physicist Erich Weibel about 50 years ago has been evidenced at surprisingly large scales in a laser-driven plasma in the prestigious journal Nature Physics.

25 Jun 2020

New Pulsed Force Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy to Measure Surface Potential

As technology shrinks, the need to characterize the properties of very small materials-measured in nanometers (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter)-has become increasingly important.

25 Jun 2020

Lasers can Redefine Bio-Imaging and Quantum Communication

A research team has applied an infrared laser technique to cool a solid semiconductor. As demonstrated by the researchers in a study published in Nature Communications on June 23rd, 2020, an infrared laser could be used to refrigerate the solid semiconductor by a minimum of 36 °F, or 20 °C, below room temperature.

24 Jun 2020