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Solar Farms will Capture Greenhouse Gases to Store in the Soil
What if renewable energy was not just sustainable but was also regenerative? This is the goal of a partnership between White Oak Pastures and Silicon Ranch Corporation, one of the nation’s largest independent solar power... -
Phabulous Pilot Line for Free-Form Micro-Optical Solutions
PHABULOuS consortium is unifying Europe’s leading Companies and Research & Technology Organizations (RTOs), through the creation of a self-sustainable pilot line for the design and manufacturing of free-form... -
Optical Frequency Measurement to the 21st Significant Digit
Today’s best optical clocks achieve an amazing accuracy and would be off by less than one second over the age of the universe. These clocks rely on probing optical transitions in cold atoms with very stable and narrow... -
Solar Outdoor Furniture Offers USB Charging, Lighting and Research Data
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in collaboration with ARMOR, a global technology company and pioneer of solar solutions has created a new style of outdoor seating, incorporating flexible, lightweight... -
Dedicated Photonics Pilot Line for Medical Diagnostics
The European Commission decided to expand the existing photonics pilot-line offering by funding the establishment of MedPhab pilot-line under Horizon 2020, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Photonics is based... -
Teraboard Solves Challenges of High Bandwidth Density Communications
Teraboard (High bandwidth density and scalable optically interconnected Terabit/s Board), EU project granted in 2015, during 48 months of developments has solved a number of challenges regarding high bandwidth density... -
Palomar Presenting Low Latency Manufacturing for Lidar at Photonics West 2020
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Building the Factory of the Future
With flexible, intelligent production technology, factories can thrive in a market defined by a demand for personalized products The age of mass production is rapidly giving way to the age of personalization. According to a study by Deloitte,... -
Laser Micromanufacturing of Medical Devices
Micromanufacturing becomes increasingly important in medical manufacturing where precise tolerances, minimal heat output and miniaturization are critical. Lasers add many benefits to the manufacturing process, such as the ability to remove material... -
An Innovative Dual Perspective for Live Cell Imaging
Although fluorescence microscopy has played an important role in the recent explosive advancements in live cell imaging (LCI), it still presents challenges. Photobleaching and phototoxicity limit repeat measurements. Rendering high-contrast... -
Simplified Data Processing with Drone-based Lidar
Professionals who work in construction, engineering, surveying, or land development have probably either experienced or considered the awesome power of drone-based lidar to improve workflows. As technology transforms these industries, professionals... -
Advances in Fluorescence Microscopy
“I’m terrified of having my head cut open. While surgery doesn’t frighten me, brain surgery really does. There’s a reason that people say, ‘at least it’s not brain surgery.’ Turns out this saying makes me... -
Perovskites Benefit X-ray, Laser and Other Applications of Light Technologies
Perovskites are mainly known for what they bring to the field of solar cells. Researchers from IMO-IMOMEC, an associated laboratory of imec at the University of Hasselt, and colleagues from KU Leuven, UGent and UAntwerpen, are tuning... -
Machine Vision Improves Ice Cream Production
One of Romania’s leading ice cream producers implemented an automated vision solution that can detect badly shaped, broken or stitched-together ice creams and facilitate their fast removal from the production line. With more than 10...
