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Laser-Based Gas Analyzer Developed to Detect Air Pollution
DUESSELDORF, Germany, April 29, 2024 — Researchers from Photonics21, a European technology platform with the goal of uniting photonics industries and relevant research and development stakeholders throughout Europe, have developed a miniature hyperspectral optics-based air quality monitoring system. Called PASSEPARTOUT, the €6.9 million ($7.4 million) E.U.-funded project uses laser technology to detect the smallest amount of toxic gases in large, densely populated regions. The World Health Organization estimates that 4.2
SCHNEIDER Partners with Micro-LAM; Laser Light Companies Receive $100M in Debt Financing: Week in Brief: 11/17/23
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 17, 2023 — US Capital Global has entered into a term sheet to provide credit facilities totaling a minimum of $100 million to Laser Light Companies, a global networking platform designer and builder. The financing will help Laser Light accelerate the beginning...
Spectroscopy Rides a Rising Tide of Water-Monitoring Applications
Oct 1, 2023 — In 2018, when California became the first state to pass legislation requiring the measuring of microplastics in drinking water supplies, it essentially set off a competition that would pit photonic technologies against one another as well as...
Underwater Laser Cutting Method Optimizes Efficiency
DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. 11, 2023 — The need for modern technologies to dismantle existing underwater infrastructure is growing due to increasing demand for renewable energy sources. For example, to bring a wind power plant in the sea up to higher powers, the existing old steel...
Industrial Photocatalyst Harnesses the Visible Spectrum
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 4, 2023 — Photocatalysts show the potential to be used in energy generation and environmental detoxification applications. This is an intriguing quality, since reducing energy use in bulk industrial processes can create a trade-off between efficiency and...
Autonomous Inspection Firm Percepto Raises $67M in Series C
AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2023 — Autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider Percepto has raised a combined $67 million in series C financing to bring its total amount raised to over $120 million. Percepto Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring (AIM), the company’s...
Breakdown Spectroscopy Modifications Set Sensitivity Benchmarks
SHANGHAI, June 7, 2023 — Researchers at East China Normal University have developed a trio of techniques to elevate the sensitivity of ultrafast laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The techniques — plasma grating-induced breakdown spectroscopy (GIBS),...
Low-Cost Camera Helps Forecast Volcanic Eruptions
SHEFFIELD, England, April 20, 2023 — To help scientists track volcanic events over the long term and predict future eruptions, an international team has designed a low-cost, low-power sulfur dioxide (SO2) camera for permanent deployment on volcanoes around the world. The camera will...
Virtual Semiconductor Fab Reduces Manufacturing Carbon Footprint
LEUVEN, Belgium, March 9, 2023 — Imec has developed a virtual fab model that the Belgium-based research and innovation hub said enables it and its partners to assess current manufacturing choices, identify areas of focus, and project the future in semiconductor manufacturing. Imec...
Unconventional Perovskite Growth Method Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency
GOLDEN, Colo., Jan. 10, 2023 — To improve the efficiency and stability of wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Toledo used a gas-quenching process to produce...
Biosolar Cell Draws Electricity from Photosynthesis Process
HAIFA, Israel, Dec. 27, 2022 — Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) used a succulent plant to create a living “bio-solar cell” that runs on photosynthesis. The demonstration showed how the natural processes that take place in living plants...
US Department of Energy Details Net Energy Gain from LLNL Fusion Work
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2022 — Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition, marking a groundbreaking advance in the decades-long...
LLNL’s Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Offers Step to Clean Energy
LIVERMORE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2022 — Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have made a significant breakthrough in ongoing nuclear fusion research. The scientists created a fusion reaction that produced more energy than...
Companies Cooperate to Upgrade Laser System of ELI for Nuclear Physics
MAGURELE, Romania, Dec. 8, 2022 — Advanced technology corporation Thales has partnered with German fusion technology company Marvel Fusion and the ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics) in Romania to upgrade the laser system and to perform research relevant to...
Infrared Cameras Inc. Partners to Equip Drones with Imaging Tech
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 15, 2022 — Infrared Cameras Inc. (ICI), a developer of thermal cameras and infrared systems, formed a technology partnership with Ondas Holdings Inc., a provider of private wireless data and drone solutions through its wholly owned subsidiaries Ondas Networks...
Quantum-Assisted Coating Could Cool Indoor Spaces Without Using Energy
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 15, 2022 — To cool buildings more efficiently, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Kyung Hee University in South Korea developed a high-performance, transparent radiative cooler (TRC) using quantum annealing (QA) combined with artificial...
Airline Tests Laser-microfabricated Friction-reducing Film
TOKYO, Nov. 1, 2022 — Nikon Corp. is providing Japan’s largest airline with a film treated by riblet processing — a processing that forms structures that emulate shark skin on surfaces in contact with fluid. The laser microfabricated film reduces the friction...
Raman Instrument Advances Study of Greener Fuels for Aerospace
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 20, 2022 — There is much interest in developing aerospace engines that run on renewable, hydrogen (H2-rich) fuels. In addition to providing sustainability, these fuels exhibit a high specific impulse (i.e., the measure of how efficiently the chemical reaction...
Luminate, Qubits Ventures Launch Quantum and Photonics Pitch Competition: Week in Brief: 09/02/2022
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 2, 2022 — Lidar technology company Cepton received a non-binding letter of intent for an investment of up to $100 million from its long-term automotive Tier 1 partner and current shareholder Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The proceeds from the proposed...
Silicon Component Keys Environmental Satellite’s Optical System
JENA, Germany, Aug. 3, 2022 — Two Fraunhofer institutes have delivered the core optical innovation supporting a recently launched space-based environmental mapping and analysis initiative. The components and devices supplied by the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and...
Perovskite Cell, Test Method Set High Bar for Advancing Technology
PRINCETON, N.J., June 27, 2022 — Researchers at Princeton University have developed a perovskite solar cell device that can perform above industry standards, maintaining operation for approximately 30 years — compared to the widely used 20-year threshold for solar cell...
Air Lasing Augments Spectroscopic Method for Remote Detection
SHANGHAI, June 24, 2022 — Researchers at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) demonstrated how air lasing, a technique deployed in ambient air that is induced by femtosecond laser pulses and that generates cavity-free amplification in the air, could be...
Reusable Light-Writing Solution Reduces Paper Waste
RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 14, 2022 — A team led by professor Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside formulated a light-sensitive coating material for rewritable light-printing. The material is made from doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocrystals that are synthesized in a...
Self-Cleaning Optical Fiber Generates Supercontinuum Light Sources
TAMPERE, Finland, May 11, 2022 — Researchers at Tampere University collaborated with colleagues at the University of Warsaw and the University of Burgundy France-Comté to create a supercontinuum light source in the mid-infrared, using a nonsilica, graded-index, multimode...
Remote Sensing, Neural Networks Combine to Measure Tree Height
ZURICH, April 29, 2022 — Scientists at ETH Zurich’s EcoVision Lab have developed a deep learning framework to map treetop height globally at high resolution, using publicly available optical satellite images as input. The Global Canopy Height Map is the first map of...
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