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Well-rounded Molecules Make Better Light Emitters
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 30, 2013 — The more well-rounded the organic molecule the better when it comes to maximizing light emission, an international team of physicists and chemists have found. A team led by the University of Utah working to develop more efficient OLEDs believes it has solved a major problem with today’s LEDs: that much of the light is polarized in one direction and trapped within the diode. They discovered their new organic molecule — shaped like a wagon wheel — emits light randomly in all...
Tunable Polymer Could Make Truly White OLED
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 13, 2013 — Doping an organic polymer with platinum atoms makes the light it emits tunable, which could lead to the realization of cheaper, more efficient and truly white OLEDs. Existing white OLED displays use different organic polymers that emit different...
Light Moves, Molds Gels
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 5, 2013 — Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh used light to reconfigure hydrogels and induce self-sustained motion. This biomimetic behavior in a non-living organism could have significance for a host of applications in the medical arena, including...
Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency Hits 8.9 Percent
ULSAN, South Korea, May 8, 2013 — The highly purified silicon crystal used in today’s commercial solar cells could be replaced with more economical, disposable, polymer-based materials if their efficiency and stability could be improved. A team at Ulsan National Institute of...
Plugged Polymer Holes Boost Laser Potential
RALEIGH, N.C., March 18, 2013 — Plugging the holes of a polymer called MEH-PPV prevents light from leaking out, providing a low-cost way to enhance the material for use in photonic devices.
Material Could Provide Self-Cleaning, Waterproof Optics
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17, 2012 — Inspired by butterfly wings, a new material that repels water and shines with beautiful, brilliant hues could provide the foundation for optical devices that are self-cleaning and waterproof.
Metamaterials Pave Way for Superlens
ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 11, 2011 — Casting tiny, oddly shaped metal structures inside plastic molds could give a boost to creating metamaterials for making “superlenses” that can image proteins, viruses and DNA. Metamaterials, which offer new ways to manipulate...
Self-assembling polymers could enable ultracheap solar panels
Sep 1, 2011 — It is no surprise that many solar developers believe that polymer (plastic) cells that can cover huge areas could help bring us into a new age of renewable energy. Polymer solar cells are much cheaper to produce than conventional silicon types and...
The Colors of Money
Aug 1, 2011 — Who wouldn’t want a machine that prints $100 bills? But such a dream machine would have to outsmart advanced anticounterfeit technology – and this technology gets smarter all the time. One recent advance involves pigment-free,...
Group to Develop Stroke Sensor
MONS, Belgium, Jan. 14, 2011 — The P3SENS consortium has been formed to develop an immunoassay detection device suitable for emergency stroke diagnosis. Co-funded by the Seventh EU Framework Program, the €3.6 million project will develop photonic crystal technology for...
DARPA Awards Georgia Tech $4.3M
ATLANTA, Dec. 8, 2010 — A new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach, thanks to the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of...
Atlas Material Testing Sold
CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2010 — Ametek has acquired Atlas Material Testing Technology, the world’s leading provider of weathering test instruments and related testing and consulting services, from Industrial Growth Partners for approximately $159 million in cash. Atlas is...
High-Precision Wafer-Level Optics Fabrication and Integration
Dec 1, 2010 — The evolution of micro-optical components for camera modules is today being strongly driven by the mobile phone industry, while manufacturers of conventional camera modules – which are assembled from a multitude of individual parts – are...
G-S Plastic Optics Expands Metrology Capability
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 17, 2010 — G-S Plastic Optics has announced an upgraded metrology laboratory with the addition of a PerkinElmer Lambda 950 spectrophotometer. The company’s goal is to improve its core competencies of creating high-precision polymer optics. The...
Sterilizing with Fluorescent Light
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2010 — The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections is well-known, causing an estimated 19,000 deaths yearly in the US and $3 billion to $4 billion in health care costs. What is less well-known is that this increased...
Specialty Optical Fibers for Harsh Environments
Oct 12, 2010 — Fiber optic sensing is one of the fastest developing technologies today, and fiber sensors have seen increased acceptance and widespread use in many commercial applications. These include structural sensing, smart structures and civil engineering;...
Potomac Photonics Buys Coherent Excimer Laser
LANHAM, Md., Oct. 5, 2010 — Microfabrication company Potomac Photonics announced Friday that it purchased a Coherent Inc. excimer laser for its contract laser micromachining unit. Suitable for rapid prototyping and production of miniature parts, the laser will be integrated on...
GigOptix Seeks $5M in Federal Funding
BOTHELL, Wash., April 19, 2010 — GigOptix Inc., a fabless manufacturer of electronic engines for the digital industry, announced that US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has requested $5 million in government funding for the development of the company’s on-chip integrated photonic...
Advantages of Polymer and Hybrid Glass-Polymer Optics
Apr 12, 2010 — Polymer materials with optical properties are being thrust into the design forefront for new, sophisticated electro-optical applications, enabling commercial markets and applications including medical disposables, bar-code scan/recognition, security...
Giving a lift to thin films
Villigen, Switzerland – If you have ever played with one of those desk ornaments with the suspended metal balls called a Newton’s cradle, you know that when you pull back and release one or more balls on one side, an identical number of balls on the other side moves...
PolyBright to Advance Polymer Welding
AACHEN, Germany, March 22, 2010 — New high brightness laser sources in the near-infrared (NIR) range are being developed for the welding of polymeric materials without the use of an IR absorber under the European U...
GigOptix Enters SOFI Project
ZURICH, March 11, 2010 – GigOptix-Helix AG, a subsidiary of Palo Alto, Calif.-based fabless semiconductor company GigOptix Inc., announced that it will participate in the European Union funded project Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits...
Agilent Acquires Novelx
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2010 - Novelx, a Lafayette, Calif.-based maker of field emission scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), has been acquired by measurement company Agilent Technologies for an undisclosed amo...
3-D PV Cell Folds, Travels
ATLANTA, Nov. 5, 2009 – A new technology for growing nanostructures on optical fibers can be used to make 3-D photovoltaic systems foldable and portable, no longer confined to traditional locations such as rooftops.
Raydiance Sets Milestone
Oct 21, 2009 — Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes and with no heat-affected zones. Raydiance has...
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