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Light-Emitting Flexible Semiconductors Unraveled by Researchers in U.S.

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell nanotechnology researchers has unraveled some of the fundamental physics of a material that holds promise for light-emitting, flexible semiconductors.

9 Oct 2007

Scanning Surface Veins With Laser Can Detect Cancer Cells

Technology that can detect tumour cells by scanning surface veins with a laser, eliminating the need for drawing blood, has been developed by Purdue University researchers.

7 Oct 2007

Programs Aimed to Improve OCT Imaging Techniques Could Revolutionize Diagnosis of Cancer

Imagine Optic, a French developer of wavefront sensors and optical measurement equipment, is to lead a consortium committed to finding new applications for adaptive optics in bioimaging. The MICADO (Microscopy improved with Adaptive Optics) consortium is a 3-year project bringing together France's leading neuroscience and cellular imaging experts.

5 Oct 2007

Breakthrough in Electron Microscopy - TEAM Project

The highest-resolution images ever seen in (S)TEM electron microscopy have been recorded using a new instrument developed jointly by U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, FEI Company and CEOS GmbH, in Heidelberg, Germany.

3 Oct 2007

Fluorescence Microscopy May Be Used to Detect Tumours in Cancer Patients

Scientists have used near-infrared fluorescence microscopy to image carbon nanotubes inside a living organism for the first time.

2 Oct 2007

Thorlabs and BMC Joined Forces to Bring Deformable Mirrors to Photonics Research

Thorlabs Inc. a Newton, N.J.-based developer of laser and fiber optic systems, and Boston Micromachines Corp. (BMC) of Watertown, Mass., have announced a partnership to enable BMC, a provider of advanced MEMS (microelectromechanical systems)-based mirror products, to bring its deformable mirrors to photonics research.

30 Sep 2007

Adaptive Optics Technologies Targeted at Bioimaging Applications

Three adaptive optics technologies available from Imagine Optic have been packaged together into a kit targeted at bioimaging applications.

20 Sep 2007

Fluorescence Filters for Various Biomedical Instrument Applications

JDSU, the leading enabler of broadband and optical innovation, introduced a new line of fluorescence filters utilizing its industry-leading and proprietary UCP-1 coating platform for use in various biomedical instrument applications. These filters were most recently showcased at the International Biomedical Optics Symposium in San Jose, California.

10 Sep 2007

Document Authentication and Brand Protection: Latest Sophisticated Security Solution by JDSU

JDSU today announced the release of a new weapon in the fight against counterfeiters with the introduction of its latest sophisticated security solution for document authentication and brand protection. The market leader in overt printed security features, JDSU has applied its optical technology expertise to develop Charms™, a groundbreaking covert security product.

10 Sep 2007

UV Imaging for Microspectrophotometers

CRAIC Technologies, the leader manufacturer of UV-visible-NIR microscopes and microspectrophotometers, today released the new QDI ImageUV™ imaging system for the QDI 2010™ microspectrophotometer. This new system represents a major step forward in the fields of microscopy and microspectroscopy in that it allows users of the QDI 2010™ to acquire both images and spectra in the UV, visible and NIR regions of micron-scale samples. Images and spectra can be acquired in transmittance, reflectance, polarization and even fluorescence from the deep UV to the NIR.

7 Sep 2007