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StarLab Pushes Autonomous Tech To New Boundaries
With Dr. James Hubbard Jr.’s relocation to Texas A&M, he brings with him a state-of-the-art motion capture studio — a tool he plans to use to push new boundaries in the development of autonomous vehicle... -
First Walking Robot That Moves Without GPS
Desert ants are extraordinary solitary navigators. Researchers were inspired by these ants as they designed AntBot, the first walking robot that can explore its environment randomly and go home automatically, without GPS or... -
Pre-Surgery Vision Simulator Shows Effects of Cataract Surgery
Thanks to a new wearable visual simulator, patients and surgeons are able to see the effects of an intraocular multifocal lens — which allows seeing at different distances — in a realistic way before being implanted.... -
Holographic Microscopy Investigates Cell Stress for Better Health and Better Beer
Human beings are not the only ones who suffer from stress – even microorganisms can be affected. Now, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have devised a new method to study how single biological... -
Photonics Allows for Better On-Chip Real Estate Management in Devices
Have you ever stood in a checkout line at a store with 10 other people, waiting for one cashier to serve you? Now imagine how much faster it would be if there were 10 cashiers available. Similarly, the operation of a silicon... -
UA Optical Sciences Named Chairs Created With $20M Gift From Founding Dean
James C. Wyant, founding dean of the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, has been taken up on his offer to add $1.5 million to gifts of $500,000 to create an endowed chair in the donor's name. Renowned optical... -
Attosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy Accelerated
It may sound paradoxical, but capturing the ultrafast motions of subatomic particles is actually very time-consuming. Experiments designed to track the dynamics of electrons often take weeks. Mapping the frantic gyrations of...
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Programming Information on Transparent Organic Luminescent Tags
Researchers at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany, have developed a new method for storing information by introducing organic luminescent molecules into transparent plastic foils, thinner than a human hair. Writing and... -
Integrated Photonics Platform Enables Programming Light on a Chip
A new integrated photonics platform developed at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) can store light and electrically control its frequency in an integrated circuit. The research work represents the first... -
Holographic Color Prints for Enhanced Optical Security
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have invented a new type of optical anti-counterfeiting device they call holographic color prints. "The holographic color print consists of materials that are... -
Silicon Photonics Device Screens for Arterial Stiffness, Cardiovascular Diseases
Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology, and Ghent University, together with Medtronic and other CARDIS project partners, have developed a prototype medical device based on silicon photonics for the screening... -
Iron Molecule Creates Photoluminescence
For the first time, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used advanced molecule design to create an iron molecule that can function as a photocatalyst to produce fuels as well as in solar cells to produce electricity. The... -
Optical Trapping and Tweezing System: Moving tiny objects with light
Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (WIT) in Johannesburg, South Africa, have demonstrated the first vector holographic trap. While the technique called holographic optical trapping and tweezing is not new, the Structured Light... -
Microstructured Foil Optimizes Light in Solar Cell
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany have achieved a record 25.5% conversion efficiency in a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell after adding a microstructured foil over the perovskite layer to optimize the light...
