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New, Low-Cost Technique Uses Ultraviolet Light to Control Particle Motion and Assembly within Liquids

Chemical sensors, drug delivery, and fluid pumps could now be improved with an innovative, simple, and low-cost technique that utilizes ultraviolet light to regulate the motion and assembly of particles inside liquids.

23 Jan 2019

New Holographic Color Printing Increases Security and Prevents Counterfeiting

A new kind of anti-counterfeiting device that can be helpful in counterfeit deterrence of main documents like banknotes, passports, and identity cards has been developed by researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

9 Jan 2019

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

New Peltier Cooling Module Optimizes Conditions for Temperature Sensitive Assays

BioTek has released a Peltier Cooling Module for the Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers. The compact module keeps internal temperature rise to less than one degree over ambient, regardless of fluctuations from external and internal factors.

24 Oct 2018

Novel Structure for Enabling Computers to be Run on Near-Invisible Light

Operating computers on nearly invisible light beams instead of microelectronics would make them lighter, more rapid, and more energy efficient.

27 Aug 2018

Hollow Motorized Rotary Actuators

ServoBelt Rotary Stage offers an economical solution for a variety of light and medium-duty rotary motion applications.

From IntelLiDrives, Inc. 16 Aug 2018

DNA Drives Creation of Lighter, Thinner Optical Displays

By employing synthetic DNA to assemble particles into crystalline lattices, scientists have paved the way for much lighter and thinner optical displays.

27 Jun 2018

Researchers Develop First Chip-Based Dual-Comb Spectrometer in Mid-IR Range

For the first time, scientists from Columbia Engineering have developed and operated a chip-based dual-comb spectrometer in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range that avoids the need for moving parts and with the ability to obtain spectra in less than 2 μs.

24 May 2018

Gold Nanoparticle Array Allows Ultrafast Laser Generation

Innovative research has revealed that when an organic dye is combined with metallic nanostructures, the resulting structure can display ultrafast lasing with rapid short laser pulses.

3 May 2018

Mass-Manufacturable, Efficient Approach for Detection and Control of Mid-IR Waves

Scientists at MIT and other institutions have developed an innovative technique for capturing images in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) range of the spectrum, which could be used in a broad range of applications, such as free-space communication, biomedical sensing, and thermal imaging.

2 May 2018