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WITec ParticleScout™ Enhanced with New Features

WITec GmbH, the pace-setting leader in Raman microscope technology, has enhanced its ParticleScout automated particle analysis tool to offer even greater speed and versatility for finding, classifying and identifying microparticles.

From WITec GmbH 3 Feb 2021

Skoltech Imaging Equipment Used to Study Crystal Structure, Optical Properties of Photocatalysts

Skoltech researchers helped their colleagues from Japan, Germany, the United States, and China study the crystal structure and optical properties of a new class of two-dimensional compounds, which can be used as effective visible-light-responsive photocatalysts for energy and chemical conversion.

2 Feb 2021

Researchers Develop New Approach for Designing Photonic Devices

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas have developed and demonstrated a new approach for designing photonic devices. The advance allows them to control the direction and polarization of light from thin-film LEDs, paving the way for a new generation of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies.

2 Feb 2021

New Insights on True Catalytically Active Species Involved in Photocatalytic Systems

A collaboration between the Pericàs group with Prof. Timothy Noël and Dr. Paola Riente at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands), has crystallised in a Nature Communications paper where they provide key insight into the chemical nature of the true photocatalyst involved in the Bi2O3-driven atom-transfer radical addition (ATRA) reaction.

2 Feb 2021

Research Explores Future Potential for Computers Based on Photonics

Researchers from the University of Exeter have now offered an interesting new understanding of the future steps to create energy-efficient, fast modern computing systems that use light in the place of electrons to process and store information.

1 Feb 2021

New Magnet Prototype Meets the Requirements for Use in Light Source Facilities

With a powerful enough light, you can see things that people once thought would be impossible. Large-scale light source facilities generate that powerful light, and scientists use it to create more durable materials, build more efficient batteries and computers, and learn more about the natural world.

29 Jan 2021

Adaptive Driving Beam System with MEMS Optical Scanner Provides Better Road Visibility for Drivers

Car accidents are responsible for approximately a million deaths each year globally. Among the many causes, driving at night, when vision is most limited, leads to accidents with higher mortality rates than accidents during the day. Therefore, improving visibility during night driving is critical for reducing the number of fatal car accidents.

28 Jan 2021

Solid-State Light Converters Optimized for High-Power LED Systems

Materials scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) worked with an international team of researchers team to optimize the design of composite ceramic materials (Ce3+:YAG-Al2O3), that is, solid-state light converters (phosphors) that can be employed in-ground and aerospace technologies.

27 Jan 2021

New Metamaterial Tiles Improve Sensitivity of Telescopes

New metamaterial tiles designed by a multi-institutional research team will help enhance the sensitivity of telescopes that are being constructed at the distinguished Simons Observatory in Chile.

27 Jan 2021