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BioTek Announces New Epoch™ 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer

BioTek Instruments introduces their next generation Epoch™ 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer; with added features that enable multiple conveniences for performing absorbance measurements.

4 Jan 2019

New Optical Memory Cell Offers Large Data Storage Option than Before

A new method demonstrated by scientists can store more optical data in a smaller space than was earlier conceivable on-chip. This method enhances the phase-change optical memory cell, which uses light to write and read data, and could provide a faster, more power-efficient form of memory for computers.

21 Dec 2018

New Method Throws Light on Cells Communication in Human Disease

Researchers at the University of York have formulated a new method that makes use of light to learn how cells communicate in human disease.

12 Dec 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

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 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

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

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