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Metalens Coalition Details Manufacturing Benefits
PITTSFIELD, Mass. March 19, 2024 — Representatives from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech), the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), and Electro Magnetic Applications (EMA) gathered at the Berkshire Innovation Center to discuss the metalens technology benefitting from a previously announced grant from MassTech. The grant is establishing an open-access manufacturing and design/testing at UMass Amherst equipped with nanoimprint lithography equipment used to manufacture metalenses at a
Researchers Develop High-Precision Dual-Color Optogenetic Brain Probe
AMHERST, Mass., Dec. 26, 2023 — Optogenetics promises to manipulate brain circuitry by exciting or inhibiting neurons with different wavelengths of light. Until now, neural probes have largely been limited to single colors, only capable of either excitation or inhibition. Probes...
Myrias Optics Secures $3M to Support Optics Offerings
AMHERST, Mass., Dec. 14, 2023 — University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst spinout company Myrias Optics has secured a $3 million seed investment. Myrias, a developer of all-inorganic printed meta-optics, said that it will use the funding to meet growing customer demand and...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 08/20/21
Aug 20, 2021 — BALTIMORE — Pixelligent and the University of Massachusetts Amherst were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their collaborative project titled “Research Partnership for Scalable Metalens Fabrication.”...
Device Uses AI, Thermal Imaging to Survey Public Areas for Flu-Like Illness
AMHERST, Mass., March 20, 2020 — A contactless, portable surveillance device, developed by a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), can capture crowd-level bioclinical signals directly related to physical symptoms of influenza-like illnesses from public waiting...
Nanopillars Enhance Solar Efficiency
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‘Electrode Barrier’ Broken for Organic Solar Cells
AMHERST, Mass., Sept. 19, 2014 — A new organic solar cell has broken the “electrode barrier” known to hamper efforts to enhance efficiency. A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed the cell, which can use virtually any metal as the electrode. Many...
Bennett Joins Till Photonics
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An Optical Diode From Nonlinear Light Absorbers
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Self-Assembled Nanostructure
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 19, 2009 – By manipulating the magnetization of a liquid solution, researchers from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have for the first time coaxed magnetic and nonmagnetic materials to form intricate nanostructures. The resulting...
Obama, Don't Let Pot Research Go Up In Smoke
Feb 3, 2009 — Try as they might, researchers in the United States have a hard time obtaining permits to grow marijuana. Take University of Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker, for instance. He did win a recommendation from an "administrative" (In other words,...
A Higher-Temperature Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector
Oct 1, 2007 — Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Ariz., have produced a long-wave infrared quantum dot photodetector with a responsivity of 2.5 A/W at operating temperatures as high as 190 K (–83 °C)....
Colleges Put on Spy Alert
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UV Alert, Gotta Fly
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Verizon to Upgrade UMass Memorial Network
Jun 3, 2004 — WORCESTER, Mass., June 3 -- UMass (University of Massachusetts) Memorial Health Care, a health care system serving central Massachusetts, has signed a seven-year, $9.6 million agreement with Verizon for managed high-speed broadband services that...
'Smart' Sensor Network Team Gets Funding Boost
Oct 23, 2003 — AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 23 -- With virtually every segment of modern life -- from healthcare and manufacturing to homeland security -- relying increasingly on remote sensing technology, a group of researchers is working to create a new generation of...
Researchers to Develop Sensor Networks that 'Talk' and 'Think'
Oct 23, 2003 — AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 23 -- With virtually every segment of modern life -- from healthcare and manufacturing to homeland security -- relying increasingly on remote sensing technology, a group of researchers is working to create a new generation of...
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Oct 1, 2003 — BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems business unit in Nashua, N.H., has received a $5 million subcontract for the Army's Objective Force Warrior (OFW) program. Under the 25-month Phase II contract with Eagle Enterprise Inc., of...
Art, Science Merge at UMass Polymer Research Center
Apr 18, 2003 — AMHERST, Mass., April 18 -- Images printed from micrographs -- photographs taken with optical, electron and atomic force microscopes -- have entered the realm of art, thanks to a new program at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst....
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