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OCT Vibrography Captures How Sound Moves Through Ear
Researchers have developed a new device that can be used to visualize how sound-induced vibrations travel through the ear. The technology is providing new insight into how the ear receives and processes sound waves and, with... -
Scottish Photonics Consortium Gets Grant to Develop Miniaturized RGB Laser Sources
PowerPhotonic, Fraunhofer UK, Optoscribe and Optocap have announced that they have been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop novel optics for miniaturized RGB laser sources, as part of the £900,000 project. The... -
Laser Components and Fraunhofer IMS Cooperate on Lidar Technologies
Laser Components USA, a specialized provider of laser and optoelectronic components in the US and Canada, is proud to inform that Laser Components GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS... -
TwoCure: A new dimension in resin-based 3D printing
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT has taken its “TwoCure” process to the next level by developing it into an industry-ready machine technology. The team of scientists from Aachen, Germany will be... -
Imaging through Tissue: Seeing the unseeable
A UK-wide research team, led by the University of St Andrews, has developed an innovative new way to optically image through tissue, which could allow for a more detailed understanding and diagnosis of the early stages of... -
Trapping Toxic Compounds With So-Called Molecular Baskets
Researchers have developed designer molecules that may one day be able to seek out and trap deadly nerve agents and other toxic compounds in the environment — and possibly in humans. The scientists, led by organic chemists... -
Army Research Lights the Way for New Materials
What happens when gold and silver just don't cut it anymore? You turn to metallic alloys, which are what Army researchers are using to develop new designer materials with a broad range of capabilities for soldiers. This is...
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Gold-Nanoparticle-Spiked Photodiode Harvests 85% of Visible Light
A photoelectrode developed by researchers at Hokkaido University, Japan, can harvest more than a surprising 85% of visible light across a wide spectral range by using a 30-nanometer titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin-film semiconductor sandwiched... -
Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cell Sets 22.4% Efficiency Record
Materials scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have set a new power conversion efficiency record with a conventional CIGS solar cell by depositing an inexpensive perovskite layer atop the original device, boosting its... -
Researching Photocatalysis More Efficiently: A new measuring tool
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig, Germany, have developed a new device that measures the photocatalytic effectiveness of surfaces more accurately and quickly, even in the... -
Transparent Optics-Less Camera Uses Window as Lens
Engineers at The University of Utah (US) have created an optics-less camera that can use a regular pane of glass or any see-through window as the lens. “We showed that by placing an image sensor — with no optics — at the edge of a... -
Photoluminescence Pinpoints Interfacial Recombination in Perovskite Solar Cells
New findings by researchers from the University of Potsdam and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) could revolutionize the design of perovskite solar cells. Photoluminescence techniques with high precision, spatial and temporal resolution allowed... -
Inverse Charge-Funneling Enables Hot-Carrier Extraction
A technique discovered by researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK allows for the movement of excited charges through a non-uniform energy-gap landscape. This effect could make solar cells three times more efficient by... -
Autonomous Soaring with Onboard Solar Power
Combining autonomous soaring and onboard solar power, new technology developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) allows unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly for more than 12 hours. The solar-soaring technology uses both thermal...
