An atomic-scale ID based on quantum technology has been demonstrated using a smartphone application. The quantum ID (QID) could potentially be used for verifying the authenticity of many types of...

The Thinky PR-1 Nanoparticle Dispersion Machine from Intertronics is a desktop unit which can disperse carbon nanotubes, graphene and other 2D nanomaterials within a closed container. The...

Last April, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his 10-year roadmap for Facebook. According to the plan, users of the popular social media channel can expect to see an increase in the use of high-definition...

The 308 Perfect Vision UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer from Craic Technologies Inc. is designed to be added to an open photo port of a microscope or probe station. The device non-destructively...

Today’s data centers deliver millions of services, processing terabytes of data per second around the world for billions of devices. Considering the volume, it’s amazing that we ever have...

SPIE Optics + Photonics, to be held Aug. 28-Sept. 1 in San Diego, is touted the largest international, multidisciplinary optical sciences and technology meeting in North America. The event highlights...

A material that can control excitons — bound pairs of electrons and electron holes — at room temperature could enable optoelectronic devices for commercial applications. Excitons...

Join us for a FREE webinar! CMOS-integrated nanophotonics (CINP) has the potential to bring traditional semiconductor industry efficiency and low-cost manufacturing to single-mode, short-reach...

Eastern Europe, like many other regions, is putting great thought and effort into producing the next generation of photonics and optics researchers and engineers. Countries including Romania are...

Flexible Film Creates Colors from Reflected Light June 2015 A team at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) in June developed an ultrathin,...

A combined interferometric and microscopy technique has revealed the strange ways in which light moves when confined inside hyperbolic materials. Researchers at CIC nanoGUNE in the Basque...

A hybrid photocatalyst that can break down bisphenol A (BPA) using visible light could eventually be used to help safely dispose of the widely used chemical. Because BPA doesn’t degrade easily,...

A novel imaging approach has brought light’s split personalities together for the first time. The wave-particle duality of light is well known, though experiments to date have only been...

Endocrine disruptors mimic or block hormones, interfering with humans’ and animals’ reproductive organs, and causing other health problems. A class of pollutants that negatively...

Quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corp. has named Dr. Michael Krueger vice president of nanomaterials. Krueger holds a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of...

Mimicking the highly efficient light-harvesting structures of blades of grass could boost power-conversion efficiency in solar panels. “For decades, scientists and engineers have placed...

The 20/30 Perfect Vision from Craic Technologies now integrates Raman microscopy capabilities. The microspectrometer can now acquire Raman spectra, with multiple laser wavelengths, in addition...

A new material with five times the light sensitivity of current silicon-based sensor technology could yield cameras sensitive enough to capture photos using only starlight. All digital cameras...

A new spectroscopy method takes advantage of a fundamental property of thin films – interference – and could help optical devices like LEDs and solar cells make better use of these...

Five photonics researchers working in areas from nonlinear materials to undersea wireless optical communications to solar power are among the 16 recipients of Young Investigator awards, given by the...