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HELIOS Program Develops Supply Chain for...
CEA-Leti announced that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the recently completed HELIOS program. The €8.5 million EUR (~$11 million USD)... -
Wallenberg Prize to Derek Gray for...
The 2013 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is being awarded to Professor Derek Gray of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, for his pioneering study of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC). The official announcement is made by the... -
Doping Quantum Dots Produces Vivid Colours
Quantum dots are tiny nanocrystals with extraordinary optical and electrical properties with possible uses in dye production, bioimaging, and solar energy production. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have... -
Imaging Technique Helps Traumatic Brain Injury...
Approximately 1.7 million people in the US receive traumatic brain injuries every year. The most common forms of traumatic brain injury are suffered by athletes, members of the military and those involved in motor vehicle... -
2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering...
The Optical Society (OSA); SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics; and the Materials Research Society (MRS) today announce their 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Carly Robinson, a PhD... -
Display Week 2013: Fraunhofer and Von Ardenne...
Fraunhofer Institute for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices (COMEDD) has been working for several years on the integration of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in silicon. The OLED-on-silicon technology is key in the... -
Photonics West 2014: Call for papers
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, issued a call for papers for the 2014 Photonics West conference and exhibition, taking place 1 to 6 February 2014 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California...
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The Role of 2-D MoS2 in Display Technologies
Graphene was just the beginning. New research suggests there is a whole array of two-dimensional materials that could change many aspects of modern life. The latest discovery is the 2-D version of a material already used as an industrial lubricant,... -
Research Trends in Optical Nanostructures
The explosion of interest in nanotechnology and nanoscience, combined with the study of nanoscale optical phenomena, has led to the emergence of new disciplines: nano-optics and nanophotonics. These, in turn, have spawned sub-disciplines such as... -
Naval Research Laboratory: Scientists develop underwater solar cells
It may seem rather unlikely but scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing specialised solar cells that can operate underwater. The aim of the research group from the NRL’s Electronics Science and Technology...
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Modelling Technique Predicts Colour of OLEDs
Organic light-emitting diodes — or OLEDs — could soon revolutionise the way we light our homes and workspaces. A challenge for manufacturers and designers, however, had been that it was impossible to predict the exact light colour a... -
Stealthy ToF Imaging System Creates Hi-Res 3-D Images from a Kilometre Away
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland have developed a new camera system that creates high-resolution 3-D images from up to a kilometre away, even of object that are typically difficult to image because they do not reflect... -
Quasicrystal Could Hold Promise for Next-Generation Photonic Devices
Scientists from Syracuse University in New York State (US) and The University of Utah have investigated the physics and applications of a novel class of optical devices, photonic quasicrystals, which exhibits “surprising” optical... -
NTA-Based Fluorescent Method Estimates Purity of Vesicles
The School of Medicine at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom reports a new method to estimate the purity of vesicle preparations. The novel approach, based on Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA), compares the ratio of nano-vesicle... -
Electric Nanolaser Continually Operates at Room Temperature
With an electrically powered nanolaser that operates at room temperature engineers at Arizona State University (ASU) have achieved a major breakthrough in nanolaser technology — an advance the global research community had considered a... -
Shrinking Optoelectronic Devices with Organic Nanowire Phototransistors
Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, have developed high-performance organic phototransistors (OPTs) based on single-crystalline n-channel organic nanowires. While, to date, most research has... -
Nanosheets Made from Ancient Egyptian Blue Emit Invisible IR Radiation
In a surprise discovery, researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, Georgia (US), found that the calcium copper silicate in Egyptian blue — humanity's first artificial pigment, used in paintings on tombs and artifacts...
