Photonics Spectra: Singapore This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: Singapore. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=Singapore Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:45:26 GMT Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMT 1800 Fraunhofer Achieves 47%-Efficient Four-Junction Solar Cell: Week in Brief: 06/03/22
Laser technology company Lumibird inked two acquisition agreements, one to acquire the Saab Group’s defense laser rangefinder business, and one to acquire Areva’s 37% stake in optics and laser company CILAS, a developer of laser weapons. Both acquisitions serve to strengthen Lumibird’s position in the European defense markets. Lumibird has served as a key component supplier for Saab for more than 15 years. Lumibird additionally formed a subsidiary in India, Lumibird Medical India. The new company aims to boost sales of Quantel Medical and Ellex products in India with a shared range of ultrasound platforms, ophthalmic lasers, and equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Allegro...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Fraunhofer_Achieves_47-Efficient_Four-Junction/p5/a68071 A68071 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Imaging Method Gauges Quality of 3D-Printed Metal
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University developed a fast, low-cost imaging method that can analyze the structure of 3D-printed metal parts to assess the quality of the material. The system uses an optical camera, a light source, and a notebook computer running a proprietary machine-learning software developed by the team.

Most 3D-printed metal alloys are composed of a variety of microscopic crystals, which differ in shape, size, and atomic lattice orientation. Mapping this information out, one can infer the alloy’s properties, such as strength and toughness. To analyze this microstructure, typically a scanning electron microscope is used, which is an expensive and time-consuming process. The microscopes themselves cost...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Imaging_Method_Gauges_Quality_of_3D-Printed_Metal/p5/a67817 A67817 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 07:00:00 GMT
JAI Opens Production Facility in Singapore
Industrial line-scan and area-scan camera manufacturer JAI opened its new office and production facility in Singapore. The company also operates offices in Denmark, Germany, the U.S., United Kingdom, China, and Japan.

Kevin Dominic Cordeiro. Courtesy of JAI. Kevin Dominick Cordeiro, who the company hired as regional sales director for the Asia region in January, is heading the office. Cordeiro is responsible for customer and distribution partner contacts in countries in the Asia-Pacific region (except the Japanese market), with special focus on supporting customers and partners in China, Korea, and Taiwan.]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/JAI_Opens_Production_Facility_in_Singapore/p5/a66596 A66596 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:00:00 GMT
CompoundTek Launches Silicon Photonics Testing Services Hub
The new facility will offer production and engineering test services to commercial industry customers. Additionally, because the testing service is independent of CompoundTek’s foundry services, even companies that are not CompoundTek customers will be able to use the open testing platform. The facility, which will house SiPh on-wafer testing, has been designed to help developers find solutions to improve data-transmission capabilities used in data centers and in applications such as lidar and smart sensors.

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https://www.photonics.com/Articles/CompoundTek_Launches_Silicon_Photonics_Testing/p5/a65515 A65515 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:00:00 GMT
National University of Singapore Develops Large-Area, Flexible NIR LEDs
A research team led by Tan Zhi Kuang from the Department of Chemistry and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) has developed high-efficiency, near-infrared LEDs that can cover an area of 900 mm2 using low-cost solution-processing methods.

SERIS notes that infrared LEDs have applications in optical communications and covert illumination, and are commonly found in remote controls and security camera setups. Infrared LEDs are generally small point sources, and according to the institute this limits their efficacy if illumination is required in larger areas when in close proximity, such as those found on wearable devices.


Electroluminescence from the SERIS large-area flexible perovskite LED. Courtesy of:...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/National_University_of_Singapore_Develops/p5/a65418 A65418 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:40:50 GMT
DenseLight to Expand in Singapore and China Following Ownership Transfer
Photonics integration technology company DenseLight Semiconductors Technology Co. Ltd. has become an independent organization following its divestment by POET Technologies Inc. for a total consideration of $26 million.

This news comes three years after DenseLight’s acquisition by POET, during which DenseLight expanded its market presence in China and the U.S. The company recorded a year-on-year revenue growth of 29% in 2017 and 39% in 2018 and reported that it is on track to surpass that growth in 2019.

DenseLight Semiconductors’ headquarters in Singapore. Courtesy of DenseLight.
Commenting on the transaction, DenseLight’s president and CEO, Rajan Rajgopal, said his company has been working hard over the...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/DenseLight_to_Expand_in_Singapore_and_China/p5/a65415 A65415 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:38:59 GMT
Keysight, FormFactor, and CompoundTek Join Forces
Keysight Technologies Inc. — a technology company that aims to help enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation — has partnered with FormFactor Inc., a provider of test and measurement technologies along the full integrated circuit life cycle, and CompoundTek, a global foundry services company in emerging silicon photonic solutions, to accelerate integrated photonics innovations.

Silicon photonics multiply data transfer capacities while reducing power consumption and cost. While Silicon photonics offer an alternative to the limitations of traditional data center networking, they also introduce new design and test challenges for component and device manufacturers. Adoption is primarily dependent...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Keysight_FormFactor_and_CompoundTek_Join_Forces/p5/a65316 A65316 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:54:50 GMT
AI-Powered Robot Could Improve Productivity, Reduce Defects in Optics Manufacturing
A robotics technology startup from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has introduced a new robot that can pick up delicate optical lenses and mirrors with care and precision, just like a human hand. Named Archimedes, the robot can slot lenses and mirrors of different sizes into a custom loading tray to get them ready for coating.

NTU spinoff company Eureka Robotics developed Archimedes, which has the precision and dexterity of a human hand. Courtesy of NTU Singapore.
Archimedes has a six-axis robot arm controlled by algorithms that use artificial intelligence (AI) to plan its motion and how much force to exert in its grip. The system can mimic the dexterity of human fingers and the visual acuity of human...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/AI-Powered_Robot_Could_Improve_Productivity/p5/a65192 A65192 Fri, 11 Oct 2019 06:00:00 GMT
Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore
The Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore (OPSS) evolved from the SPIE Singapore Chapter that originally formed in 1994. In 2008, OPSS reorganized. Since then it has aimed to promote optics and photonics to industries, academia, and students through interaction and networking, both locally and globally. Recently, OPSS established offices in China and India, initiated the formation of ACOP (the ASEAN Commission on Optics and Photonics), and formed alliances with the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering, the Taiwan Photonics Society, and the Optical Society of Japan. In addition to offering yearly workshops, courses, and conferences in Singapore, OPSS also supports regional conferences and provides student travel grants to some of...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Optics_and_Photonics_Society_of_Singapore/p5/a64949 A64949 Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:31:13 GMT
Robot Equipped With 3D Camera Makes Swift Work of IKEA Chair Assembly
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a robot that can independently assemble the individual components of an IKEA chair without interruption in less than 10 min. The robot uses an Ensenso N35 3D camera from IDS and two robot arms equipped with grippers to pick up objects.

The robot hardware is designed to simulate how people mount objects. In this case, the eyes are replaced by a 3D camera and the arms by industrial robot arms capable of moving in six axes. Each arm is equipped with parallel grippers for picking up objects. Force sensors are attached to the wrists to determine how strongly the fingers grip and how strongly they bring objects into contact with each other.

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https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Robot_Equipped_With_3D_Camera_Makes_Swift_Work_of/p5/a63897 A63897 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:35:44 GMT
NTU, Volvo Buses Testing Self-Driving Electric Buses in Singapore
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Volvo Buses will begin testing autonomous electric passenger buses in Singapore in 2019.

NTU and Volvo will begin testing autonomous electric passenger buses at the CETRAN test center starting in early 2019, and each 40-seater bus will be equipped with GPS and integrated navigation systems that will enable it to drive, park and even charge itself. Courtesy of JTC.
For Volvo, this will be its first autonomous application in public transportation. It has already demonstrated its autonomous technology in mining, quarry and refuse collection operations.

The 12-m Volvo 7900 Electric bus is already in service around the world, providing a quiet and emission-free...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/NTU_Volvo_Buses_Testing_Self-Driving_Electric/p5/a63110 A63110 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT
An International Meeting of Optical Minds
SPIE Optics + Photonics, scheduled for Aug. 6-10 at the San Diego Convention Center in California, is an international, multidisciplinary optical sciences and technology meeting that annually presents the latest research in optical engineering and applications, nanotechnology, sustainable energy, organic photonics and astronomical instrumentation.

Four conference topics are held, providing an in-depth look at specific research and other work:

Nanoscience + Engineering: Advancement of nanotechnology is enabling new applications in medicine, computing, information storage and others. In this track, researchers focusing on such areas as metamaterials, nanophotonic materials, plasmonics, quantum science and technology,...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/An_International_Meeting_of_Optical_Minds/p5/a62279 A62279 Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:49:37 GMT
Technica Opens Singapore Facility
The new operation, Technicasa Singapore Pvt. Ltd., is equipped with femtosecond laser stations, nanoscale positioning, micromachining equipment and advanced proprietary fiber processing technologies.

"Demand for FBG sensors is growing in energy, security, transportation, structural health monitoring, civil engineering, medical, industrial and other fields,” said Andrei Csipkes, president and CEO of Technica. “Immune to electromagnetic interference, small, light, multiplexible and highly reliable, our new generation of FBG sensors, FBG...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Technica_Opens_Singapore_Facility/p5/a62130 A62130 Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT
Singapore’s A*Star Forms Consortia to Advance IC Packaging
The Chip-on-Wafer Consortium II and the Cost-Effective Interposer Consortium will leverage the IME’s expertise in IC integration, bonding technologies, and design and packaging for semiconductor dies to develop advanced chip packaging with the goal of reducing production costs and enabling volume manufacturing.

Through the Chip-on-Wafer Consortium I, IME and its partners have already demonstrated chip-on-wafer bonding with Cu-Cu diffusion bonding...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Singapores_AStar_Forms_Consortia_to_Advance_IC/p5/a60889 A60889 Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:21:48 GMT
Zecotek’s Scintillation Crystals Ordered for Radiation Detectors
The LFS crystals will be tested in devices used in homeland security and border protection and safety, specifically border security, land crossings, airports, harbors and strategic government buildings.

A scintillation detection system consists of scintillation crystals, photodetectors, an electric signal and processing electronics. The scintillation crystals generate photons in response to incident radiation, and a sensitive photo detector converts the light to an electrical signal.

The systems, which can be...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Zecoteks_Scintillation_Crystals_Ordered_for/p5/a59533 A59533 Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:55:25 GMT
Heptagon Expands, Reaches Shipment and Miniaturization Milestones
Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd. has announced a shipment milestone of over 2 billion systems, the opening of two new facilities and the development of what they said is the world’s smallest wafer sensing module.

"We are well positioned to pursue new market opportunities with the expansion of our fab in Woodlands, Singapore, and the opening of our new factory in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore," says S.C. Leong, Heptagon’s chief operating officer.
Heptagon's new module is 4 times thinner than a U.S. penny. Courtesy of Business Wire. The new factory expands the company’s shipment capacity to 1 billion units per year. In addition to the new Singapore location, Heptagon has expanded its sales, marketing and engineering...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Heptagon_Expands_Reaches_Shipment_and/p5/a58394 A58394 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:48:50 GMT
Zecotek Secures Scintillation Crystal Order for Brain Imaging Device, Patents Display Technologies
The company has also secured two patents for technology related to its front- and rear-projection autostereoscopic 3D display systems, respectively.

The crystal customer is a company that has developed a state-of-the-art molecular brain imaging device for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. The initial LFS crystal order will meet the need for a single, specialized positron emission tomography (PET) medical imaging scanner, which is...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Zecotek_Secures_Scintillation_Crystal_Order_for/p5/a58085 A58085 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:14:57 GMT
Zecotek Receives Orders Worth $750K for PET Scanner Scintillation Crystals
Zecotek Photonics Inc. recently received two orders for its patented lutetium fine silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals totaling $750,000. The crystals are used in positron emission tomography (PET) systems.

One order, placed by an unnamed medical imaging device manufacturer in China, is valued at $500,000. Details on a second, $250,000 order, were not provided.

"Although estimated to be the fourth largest in size today, the Chinese medical scanning device market is one of the world's fastest growing,” said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, chairman, president and CEO of Zecotek.

In the U.S., there are approximately 2,000 PET medical scanners in operation, or about 6.5 scanners per million Americans. China, with a population of...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Zecotek_Receives_Orders_Worth_750K_for_PET/p5/a57910 A57910 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:17:00 GMT
Zecotek Adds Robotics to Scintillator Crystal Production
A new manufacturing process that uses robots to assemble lutetium fine silicate (LFS) crystal arrays has been developed by Zecotek Photonics Inc., positioning the company and its partners for photodetector device expansion.

"By introducing robotic automation into manufacturing process, we are now able to produce LFS crystal arrays much faster and cheaper than before," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, chairman, president and CEO of Zecotek. "The importance of accuracy and precision of LFS crystal arrays cannot be overstated."

The Beijing Opto-Electronics Technology Co. Ltd. (BOET) is the main supplier and grower of Zecotek's LFS scintillation crystals using the Czochralski method with Zecotek modifications. The growing method produces...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Zecotek_Adds_Robotics_to_Scintillator_Crystal/p5/a57725 A57725 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:17:34 GMT
Solid Tunable Lens Aims for Gentler Colonoscopies
An endoscopic probe with adjustable-focus capabilities in a slim package could facilitate more effective and less painful colonoscopies.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed the instrument using prototypical solid tunable lens technology. Although this new device still is in its early stages and has not yet been tested in a clinical setting, it is less bulky than current high-magnification endoscopes.

It's a case of function following mechanical form, as current endoscope technology attempts to zoom in to the best of the camera's ability in order to reduce need to physically move the device. Physical movement is the root cause of discomfort experienced by patients during colonoscopies.

Two...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Solid_Tunable_Lens_Aims_for_Gentler_Colonoscopies/p5/a57653 A57653 Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:40:33 GMT