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New Enhanced, Less- Destructive Approaches Could Improve 3D Imaging Using X-Rays

Scientists reveal two new methods to forming three-dimensional (3D) images using X-rays that could enhance disease-screening, study of very rapid processes and enable analysis of the properties of materials and structural information of opaque objects with unparalleled detail.

30 Nov 2018

$First-Ever Refractive Lens Formed by Jet of Atoms Focuses Extreme Ultraviolet Beams$

First-Ever Refractive Lens Formed by Jet of Atoms Focuses Extreme Ultraviolet Beams

Researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) have created the first refractive lens with the ability to focus extreme ultraviolet (XUV) beams. Rather than using a glass lens, which is non-transparent in the XUV region, the scientists have exhibited a lens formed by a jet of atoms.

29 Nov 2018

Novel Technique to Achieve Holographic Control of Light Using Optical Trapping and Tweezing

When a beam of light is made to shine on your hand, nothing much is felt, except for a little bit of heat produced by the beam.

28 Nov 2018

Single-Ion, Light-Activated Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide into “Building Block” Molecules

Researchers have identified a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that is capable of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into “building block” molecules that can possibly be used for producing useful chemicals.

27 Nov 2018

Digital Surf and Image Metrology announce MountainsSPIP 8TM software

Since SPM specialists Image Metrology and Digital Surf joined forces in 2014, development teams from both companies have been working hard to create the next generation of SPM image analysis software. The new product lin...

From Digital Surf 27 Nov 2018

New Flow Focusing Technology Facilitates Success of First Experiment Performed by European XFEL Project

The Flow Focusing technology (also referred to as Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle [GDVN]), has been one of the core elements in the triumph of the first experiments performed by the European XFEL project, the largest source of X-rays in the world currently.

26 Nov 2018

Innovative Light Modulator Could Help Cover Last Mile Efficiently and Cost-Effectively

An ETH Zurich research team has created a new light modulator with which data relayed through millimeter waves can be directly changed into light pulses for optical fibers.

22 Nov 2018

New Approach to Creating Highly Efficient Organic-Light-Emitting Diodes

Researchers have found that semiconducting molecules with unpaired electrons, called as ‘radicals’ can be used to fabricate highly efficient organic-light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), manipulating their quantum mechanical ‘spin’ property to surpass efficiency boundaries for traditional, non-radical materials.

22 Nov 2018

Materials with Phase-Changing Capabilities Could Be Used to Propagate Photons for Data Transmission

A new study into vanadium dioxide’s phase-changing capabilities and hexagonal boron nitride’s infrared properties holds promise for faster, more efficient optical data transmission, especially in big data “farms” where numerous computers must communicate to offer answers.

20 Nov 2018

High-Performance Spectrograph Provider Adds New FERGIE Dealers in Europe and Asia

Princeton Instruments, a world-renowned manufacturer of scientific cameras and spectroscopy equipment, is pleased to announce that it has expanded its FERGIE® distribution and support network in Europe and Asia.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 19 Nov 2018

Researchers Develop Ultrathin Metalenses from Layered 2D Materials

The age of glass lenses may be declining in optics. In the recent past, various types of ultrathin materials that could substitute the thick glass lenses currently used in cameras and imaging systems have been designed, constructed, and tested by engineers and physicists.

15 Nov 2018

Researchers Find New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

A study team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that various metasurfaces display the same behavior provided a symmetry breaking is added to their unit cells "meta-atoms".

15 Nov 2018

Study Shows Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanostructures Could be Better Light Detectors

Using self-assembling wire-like nanostructures that conduct electricity, researchers from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—have considerably enhanced graphene’s response to light.

14 Nov 2018

New Fabrication Method Creates Ultra-Thin Transparent Silver Films for Solar Cells

A new fabrication method for transparent ultra-thin silver films has been formulated by scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal. The material may aid in developing very efficient solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

13 Nov 2018

Physicists Develop New Lens for Microscopy

Physicists at BFU proposed a new model of a variable focus lens known as a mini transfocator. It could be used in microscopic research that requires compact and mobile optical platforms.

9 Nov 2018

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New Enhanced, Less- Destructive Approaches Could Improve 3D Imaging Using X-Rays

First-Ever Refractive Lens Formed by Jet of Atoms Focuses Extreme Ultraviolet Beams

Novel Technique to Achieve Holographic Control of Light Using Optical Trapping and Tweezing

Single-Ion, Light-Activated Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide into “Building Block” Molecules

Digital Surf and Image Metrology announce MountainsSPIP 8TM software

New Flow Focusing Technology Facilitates Success of First Experiment Performed by European XFEL Project

Innovative Light Modulator Could Help Cover Last Mile Efficiently and Cost-Effectively

New Approach to Creating Highly Efficient Organic-Light-Emitting Diodes

Materials with Phase-Changing Capabilities Could Be Used to Propagate Photons for Data Transmission

High-Performance Spectrograph Provider Adds New FERGIE Dealers in Europe and Asia

Researchers Develop Ultrathin Metalenses from Layered 2D Materials

Researchers Find New Way of Resonance Tuning for Nonlinear Optics

Study Shows Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanostructures Could be Better Light Detectors

New Fabrication Method Creates Ultra-Thin Transparent Silver Films for Solar Cells

Physicists Develop New Lens for Microscopy

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