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Researchers Develop RoHS-Compliant, High-Performance Infrared Photodetectors Using Material Defects

ICFO scientists have developed an extremely sensitive CMOS compatible broadband photodetector by modifying material defects.

3 Apr 2019

New Ultra-Thin, Miniaturized Optical Chip Could Play a Key Role in Personalized Medicine

Every individual may have a simple device in the near future. This device would be so small that it can be kept on a nightstand, or can even be accommodated in people’s pocket.

3 Apr 2019

National Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Line

Tyndall National Institute and ficonTEC Service, along with other industry partners including Eblana Photonics, Faz Technology, mBryonics and Sanmina, have come together to build the National Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Line, an integrated photonics manufacturing ecosystem located within a single state-of-the-art facility and designed to advance disruptive photonic technologies from concept to commercialisation.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 2 Apr 2019

Researchers Use Laser Technology to Examine Cancer Cells

Doctors need to know something about the traits of cancer from which a patient is suffering to be able to devise the best treatment for the patient. But one of the extreme challenges in treating cancer is that not all cancer cells are the same.

2 Apr 2019

A Two-Pronged Approach Helps Measure and Self-Adjust the Spectral Power Distributions of LED Lighting Systems

An article titled, “Arbitrary spectral matching using multi-LED lighting systems” has been recently reported in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, highlighting a significant development in lighting science and technology.

1 Apr 2019

New Perovskite-Based LEDs Offer Record Efficiency of 21.6%

Linköping University (LiU) has successfully produced efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) of perovskite in a laboratory.

29 Mar 2019

$Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses$

Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses

A research team at Northwestern University has created tiny optical elements from metal nanoparticles and a polymer that soon might replace traditional refractive lenses to realize portable optoelectronic devices and imaging systems.

29 Mar 2019

Gardasoft Launches New Generation Of Machine Vision Lighting Controllers

Gardasoft Vision has announced the launch of the FP220 series of high speed lighting controllers for machine vision.

From Gardasoft Vision Limited 29 Mar 2019

Efficient Cathode Interlayers Composed of Ionene Polymers Enhanced with Pendant Fullerenes

Organic photovoltaics have realized extraordinarily high efficiencies, but discovering ideal combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still poses a challenge.

28 Mar 2019

Sandia Researchers Develop Mirage Software that Makes Optical Engineering Relatively Easy

An innovative software now allows users to create science-fiction-like materials with the same level of efficiency that designs draft-building plans.

28 Mar 2019

High Performance Infrared Imagers to Match Demanding Industrial Markets

Xenics, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared sensors, cameras and customized imaging solutions from the SWIR to the LWIR realm, will be exhibiting in the Automate show.

From Exosens 27 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence Techniques Could Help Improve Energy Production of Photovoltaic Panels

A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has come up with a novel approach based on artificial intelligence methods that accounts for the difference in the atmosphere when fabricating the solar cells to generate more amounts of energy.

27 Mar 2019