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Artificial Intelligence Predicts Nonlinear Ultrafast Dynamics in Optics
Researchers at Tampere University in Finland have successfully used artificial intelligence to predict nonlinear dynamics that take place when ultrashort light pulses interact with matter. This novel solution can be used... -
Tiny Sensor Measures Subtle Pressure Changes Inside the Body
Researchers have developed an extremely sensitive miniaturized optical fiber sensor that could one day be used to measure small pressure changes in the body. “Our new pressure sensor was designed for medical applications... -
Intelligent Robots for Targeted Combating of Viruses and Bacteria
Service robots can help ensure that buildings and means of transport are cleaned and disinfected regularly and with consistently high quality. Since October 2020, twelve institutions of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have been... -
Metasurface Poised to Improve Communication and Biosensing
Researchers have created a new plasmonic metasurface that achieves record high light efficiency over the entire centimeter-scale metasurface. The advance makes the new nanostructured thin film practical for use in a variety of... -
Making Foldable Cells a Practical Reality
With the recent development of foldable mobile phone screens, research on foldable electronics has never been so intensive. One particularly useful application of the foldable technology is in solar panels. Current solar cells... -
20nm Pitch Line/Spaces using Interference Lithographic Imaging
Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports for the first time the use of a 13.5 nm High Harmonic Generation source for the printing of 20nm pitch line/spaces using... -
Low-Energy Laser Treatment Study Supported by National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University $15.2 million to study how a treatment called selective laser trabeculoplasty...
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Advancements in Lighting Technologies
It has been nearly 200 years since the first constant electric light was demonstrated, spurring researchers throughout the world to advance the technology that brought illumination to homes and businesses.While the light that glows in our homes has... -
Light Technologies in the Fight Against COVID-19
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and while far too many people have lost their lives or are suffering long-term symptoms, today’s light-based technologies offer hope by advancing methods of disinfection, diagnostics, treatment and... -
Optical Tools Enable the Study of Microplastics
Plastics have only been around since the 1950s and yet they’re everywhere: scattered in our lakes, rivers, floating on the top of oceans, and dropping to the bottom. Back in the 1950s and 60s, plastics were hailed as a useful invention, used... -
Light Research Advances Medical Diagnostics & Health
Light technologies are increasingly contributing to our health and longevity. While, for example, cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide, death rates for individual cancer types have declined in part due to advanced research on light... -
Thin Film Hides Objects from Infrared Detectors
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an aerogel film made of DuPont Kevlar fibers that makes objects invisible to infrared detectors. A successful method for hiding objects from heat-sensing cameras could be... -
Measuring and Self-Adjusting Spectral Power Distribution of LED Systems
Researchers from the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) at the University of Barcelona and its spin-off Ledmotive Technologies in Spain have combined two computational methods to enable solid-state lighting (SSL) to measure and... -
Perovskite NIR LED with Record External Quantum Efficiency
Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden have produced near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes (LED) of perovskite with a record external quantum efficiency of 21.6%. Because perovskites have good light-emitting properties and...
