Raman Microscopy Examines Gemstones
Gemstones are pieces of mineral crystal cut and polished for use in the gem and jewellery industry. The term gemstone covers a wide variety of gems, roughly over 200 types of natural gemstones... Read More
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Apple Awards Corning $45 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund
Apple is awarding $45 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning Incorporated, a supplier of precision glass for iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad. The funding will expand Corning’s manufacturing capacity in the... -
OptoSigma and Laser Point srl Announce a New Partnership
A world specialist for laser measurement instruments, Laser Point srl and OptoSigma, a global manufacturer based in the USA, Japan, and Europe, have entered into a new partnership and distribution agreement. The agreement... -
MedPhab Launches Open Call to Support Photonic Medical Device Innovation
MedPhab, Europe’s first pilot line for photonics-based medical devices announces a call for proposals to support companies adopting advanced photonics technologies for the development of new medical diagnostics solutions.... -
Craic Technologies Establishes New Microspectroscopy Lab
CRAIC Technologies, a specialist in UV-visible-NIR and Raman microspectrometers, announces the opening of its newest microspectroscopy applications and demonstration laboratory in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea. Called... -
AR/VR Display Market to Grow at a CAGR of Nearly 40% through 2026
According to the new market research report "AR and VR Display Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis by Device Type (AR HMDs, VR HMDs, AR HUDs, VR Projectors), Technology (AR, VR), Display Technology (LCD, OLED,... -
GaN Semiconductor Device Market to Grow Over 16% CAGR through 2018
Verified Market Research recently published a report, “GaN Semiconductor Device Market” that sees the Global GaN Semiconductor Device Market valued at USD 1.63 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 5.53... -
Silicon Software GmbH and Basler AG Merge Under Basler Name
Silicon Software GmbH has been merged into Basler AG. Basler had acquired Silicon Software in 2018 and managed it as an independent GmbH within the group structure. Functions such as production, logistics, sales and technical... View All
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Portable Non-Invasive Bioluminescent Imaging
A biochemical reaction between an enzyme called luciferase and oxygen causes fireflies to glow and is considered one of the most well-known examples of bioluminescence in nature. Now, an international team of researchers led by Elena Goun at the... -
The Neural Mechanism of Autonomous Learning
Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain tasks. But do these... -
Rochester Researchers Use Freeform Optics to Redesign AR/VR Glasses
“Image” is everything in the $20 billion market for AR/VR glasses. Consumers are looking for glasses that are compact and easy to wear, delivering high-quality imagery with socially acceptable optics that don’t look like... -
Hydrogen in Hybrid Perovskites
Researchers in the Materials Department at the UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering have uncovered a major cause of limitations to efficiency in a new generation of solar cells. Various possible defects in the lattice of what are known as hybrid... -
Silicon Could be a Photonics Game-Changer
While computer chips' extraordinary success has confirmed silicon as the prime material for electronic information control, silicon has a reputation as a poor choice for photonics; there are no commercially available silicon light-emitting... -
Clearing Space Debris with a Laser
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have harnessed a technique that helps telescopes see objects in the night sky more clearly to fight against dangerous and costly space debris. The researchers´... -
3D Holographic Head-Up Display Could Improve Road Safety
Researchers have developed the first lidar-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that it could improve road safety by ‘seeing through’ objects to alert of... View All
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Artificial Intelligence Tool Uses Chest X-ray to Differentiate Cases of COVID-19
Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up to 80 percent accuracy which COVID-19 patients would develop life-threatening complications within four days, a new study finds. Developed by... -
Testing PLATO Mission Cameras at the Institute of Space Astrophysics
Symetrie delivered a ZONDA hexapod to IAS (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale) in Orsay, France, for the thermal vacuum tests and calibration of some of the cameras of PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission. PLATO is an ESA... -
Autonomous Robotic Apple Picking Helps Alleviate Labor Shortage
New autonomous robotic technology developed by Monash University researchers in Australia has the potential to alleviate Australia's labor shortages and help satisfy the increased demand for fresh produce. A research team, led... -
Combining Solar Panels and Lamb Grazing Increases Land Productivity
Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and solar energy production on the same land, according to new research by Oregon State University scientists. This is believed to be the first study to investigate... -
Streaming Video from the Mayflower Autonomous Ship
UK-based Videosoft’s adaptive low bandwidth video streaming technology has been selected and installed on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) to help relay high-quality footage of the ship’s various missions back to humans on land.... -
Establishing Pollinator Habitats in Solar Projects
Navisun LLC, a solar independent power producer that co-develops, acquires, owns, and operates distributed and small utility-scale solar projects, announced that it has completed two solar projects in Massachusetts for a total of 3.8MW of... -
Ecoppia Robots Perform Automated Solar Panel Cleaning
Ecoppia, a specialist in robotic cleaning technology for photovoltaic solar sites, announced today that it has completed the installation of its robots at a solar site in California, USA, operated by The AES Corporation, a Fortune 500 global energy... View All
