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3D Printing High Quality Optics with Blurred Light
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 20, 2024 — Researchers from the National Research Council of Canada have developed a 3D printing method called blurred tomography that can rapidly produce microlenses with commercial-level optical quality. The method may make it quicker and easier to design and fabricate a variety of optical devices. “We purposely added optical blurring to the beams of light used for this 3D printing method to manufacture precision optical components,” said Daniel Webber from the National Research
Material Offers Efficient, Sustainable Emission for OLEDs
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 6, 2024 — A new, 3D-printable material that is a highly efficient emitter could lead to cheaper, more sustainable manufacturing processes for OLED devices. The material, called supramolecular ink, demonstrated the ability to convert nearly all absorbed light...
TRUMPF Collaborates with The Exploration Company on Spacecraft Parts
DITZINGEN, Germany, Jan. 30, 2024 — TRUMPF is collaborating with European space-travel startup The Exploration on the construction of core components for spacecrafts designed for missions in the earth’s orbit and to the moon. As early as spring of 2024, the Exploration Company...
4D Printing Scheme Enables Light-Controlled Soft Robotics
ST. LUCIA, Australia, Jan. 15, 2024 — The process of 4D printing is an extension of 3D printing, in which solid objects are created using materials that can change shape when exposed to certain stimuli like heat, water or light. At the University of Queensland’s Australian...
Multimodal Solution Points to Broader Adoption of Metamaterials
POHANG, South Korea, Nov. 9, 2023 — Metamaterials, artificial nanostructures that manipulate light, are costly and technologically challenging to fabricate. The broad, practical use of metamaterials depends on lowering their manufacturing cost and making them easier to create....
Airbus Helicopter to Further Employ TRUMPF 3D Printer Technology
DITZINGEN, Germany, Oct. 26, 2023 — Airbus Helicopters will use 3D printers from TRUMPF to manufacture components for its helicopters, as well as for aircraft from the parent company Airbus, as the aerospace company expands its additive manufacturing capabilities with a new...
UV-based 3D Printing Accelerates Multipurpose Glass Production
ATLANTA, Oct. 18, 2023 — Current 3D-printing techniques for fabricating glass involve time-consuming processes that require high temperatures and considerable resources to complete. In a new approach, a research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)...
Ocean Insight Names President; Bluglass, TeraXion Add to Executive Teams: People in the News: 09/13/2023
OBERKOCHEN, Germany, Sept. 13, 2023 — ZEISS CFO Christian Müller will step down from the executive board at the end of this month. Company president and CEO Karl Lamprecht will temporarily take over CFO duties. Christian Müller. Courtesy of Carl Zeiss AG. ORLANDO, Fla. —...
Exail to Provide Navigation Tech to US Coast Guard: Week in Brief: 06/02/23
PARIS, June 2, 2023 — Exploration technology company Exail received a $2.2 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to replace obsolete gyrocompass systems on the 175-ft Keeper-class buoy tenders. The contract includes Octans gyrocompasses and Netans navigation data...
ADVA Details CEO Change; VELO3D Names CTO: People in the News: 05/31/23
MUNICH, May 31, 2023 — Christoph Glingene, CEO of optical networking company ADVA, will step down and transition to his previous role as CTO for ADVA, effective June 30, and will continue as CTO for Adtran. Tom Stanton will be appointed as ADVA’s CEO, effective July...
Hamamatsu to Establish New Factory for Semiconductor Laser Manufacturing: Week in Brief: 04/28/23
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper outlining its vision and strategy for a National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), a component of the R&D program established by...
Diffractive Optical Network Enables Snapshot Multispectral Imaging
LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2023 — UCLA researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi have developed a multispectral imaging technology capable of turning a monochrome sensor into a multispectral one. Rather than the traditional absorptive filters used for multispectral imaging,...
3D Printing Eases Electronic Device Implantation
LANCASTER, England, March 30, 2023 — A team led by researchers at Lancaster University has developed a method to 3D-print flexible electronics using a conducting polymer, and the team has demonstrated a method to directly print these electrical structures on or in living organisms....
Simulation Process Optimizes Additive Manufacturing Parameters
MUNICH, Jan. 12, 2023 — A method of simulation of the additive manufacturing process could enable better yields and higher-quality results. Researchers from Fraunhofer member institutions combined different methods to develop a simulation of the 3D-printing process itself,...
Lasers Shape a New Future for Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts
Jan 6, 2023 — Aerospace and automotive manufacturers initially adopted additive manufacturing (AM) methods as a means to rapidly prototype new parts or to fabricate more complex or consolidated components in a single step. They applied additive manufacturing to...
TRUMPF Manufactures Particle Accelerator Component for CERN
DITZINGEN, Germany, Nov. 25, 2022 — TRUMPF has additively manufactured a core component of future particle accelerators as part of the EU-funded I.FAST (Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology) project coordinated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research...
IDEA Project Lights Way for Industrial-Scale Laser 3D Printing
AACHEN, Germany, Nov. 21, 2022 — Following completion of a multiyear project, collaborators on an initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have reported their demonstration of a production approach they believe will enable large corporations, as...
Technique Reduces Warpage in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
TOKYO, Nov. 7, 2022 — In laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) for the additive manufacture of metal parts, local high-temperature molten metal fits the surrounding solid part as a result of thermal expansion. As a negative byproduct of this process, the molten metal generates...
Low-Cost Method Offers Solution for Small-Volume MEMS Sensor Production
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 14, 2022 — Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a 3D-printing technique for specialized manufacturing of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The approach offers a cost-efficient way to manufacture custom-designed MEMS devices, in...
'Meta-Lidar' Developer Lumotive Secures Funding Round: Week in Brief: 08/26/22
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 26, 2022 — Optica launched a campaign to highlight the achievements of the global photonics community. The “Optica Community” campaign presents a series of life stories celebrating the society’s global diversity and the shared values of its...
3D Printing Creates New Optical Possibilities
Aug 25, 2022 — Emerging 3D printing technology is transforming once-impossible designs of optical components into optimized elements that can improve medical instruments, research tools, communications systems, and consumer devices. In 3D printing, an additive...
NIST Awards Nearly $4M Toward Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 8, 2022 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded $3.7 million in grants to address current and future challenges to the implementation of metals-based additive manufacturing through research in metrology. NIST awarded $3.7 million...
LZH and TU Berlin Bring 3D Printing to the Moon
HANNOVER, Germany, June 28, 2022 — Scientists from the Laser Zentrum Hannover eV (LZH) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) are planning a flight to the moon to melt lunar dust with laser radiation. Researchers, on a project called MOONRISE, are looking to AI-aided...
Photonic Wire Bonding: Using Lasers to Integrate Lasers
Jun 27, 2022 — Just as electronic integrated circuits have revolutionized computing, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are poised to transform applications such as high-speed optical communications, optical signal processing, optical sensing, and quantum...
Liquid Silica Resin Optimizes 3D Printing for Complex Micro-Optics
TUCSON, Ariz., June 1, 2022 — A liquid silica resin (LSR) developed by researchers at the University of Arizona has proven successful as a 3D-printing medium for complex micro-optics. The organic-inorganic hybrid material has shown high curing speeds, better mechanical...
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