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European Semiconductor Metrology Hub Launches: Week in Brief: 07/21/23
DRESDEN, Germany, July 21, 2023 — Applied Materials and the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (Fraunhofer IPMS) collaborated to create what will be Europe’s largest technology hub for semiconductor metrology and process analysis. The hub will be located at the Center Nanoelectronic Technologies of Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden, situated in Silicon Saxony, Europe’s largest semiconductor cluster. Applied Materials’ eBeam metrology equipment at cleanroom of Fraunhofer IPMS. Courtesy of
Optical Method Clocks Expansion of Universe
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 28, 2021 — Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy proposed an optical method that uses the light from quasars to determine the rate of the universe’s expansion. The method, the researchers said, is...
Menlo AstroComb Used in Very Large Telescope Light Analysis
MARTINSRIED, Germany, Aug. 15, 2018 — The AstroComb from Menlo Systems GmbH is analyzing the starlight from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. ESO engineers and astrophysicists have succeeded in combining the light collected by each of the...
Adaptive Optics Look Farther Than Ever Before
Mar 28, 2018 — Decades after the Cold War ended, technology developed for the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) missile defense program continues to be of use, emerging in fields ranging from space communication and exploration to brain...
ESO’s VLT Becomes Single Telescope
PARANAL, Chile, March 6, 2018 — With the first light of the ESPRESSO spectrograph using the four-unit telescope mode of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope (VLT), the device has become a single giant telescope. After extensive preparations...
Laser Guide Star Alliance Wins Leibinger Innovation Prize
DITZINGEN, Germany, Sept. 14, 2016 — The Laser Guide Star Alliance, the development team led by Dr. Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders and Dr. Wallace Clements at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany, along with Toptica Photonics AG in...
Very Large Telescope Reveals Low-Mass Bodies in Orion Nebula
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, July 20, 2016 — The HAWK-I IR instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been used to produce the deepest and most comprehensive view of the Orion Nebula to date. The striking images reveals an abundance of faint brown...
Toptica Lasers Operating in ESO's Very Large Telescope
MUNICH, May 5, 2016 — Using four independent lasers from Toptica Photonics AG, the Four-Laser Guide Star Facility housed at the Paranal Observatory in Chile is now fully operational. This phase is a major step toward the completion of the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF)....
Laser Guide Star System Installed at Very Large Telescope in Chile
MUNICH, May 22, 2015 — The first of four laser guide star systems developed by Toptica Photonics AG of Germany and MPB Communications Inc. of Canada has been installed and brought online at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. Previous...
Guide Star Set for VLT
MUNICH, April 1, 2014 — A new solid-state laser aims to give giant Earth-bound telescopes better vision by reducing atmospheric distortion.
ESO celebrates its 50th anniversary
Dec 1, 2012 — The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrated 50 years in October since the signing of its founding convention. Astronomers from five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden – decided in 2007 to...
Storage Keeps Pace with Data from Space
Nov 1, 2012 — As imaging technology improves, space researchers are accumulating incredible amounts of image data – all of which must be transmitted and stored for analysis. There are few fields in which the challenge of image storage and analysis is more...
RIT, Raytheon to Develop Advanced IR Detectors
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2012 — The Rochester Institute of Technology was awarded a $1.2 million National Science Foundation award to develop, fabricate and test a new family of detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates by Raytheon Vision Systems.
Young Star Really Gets Around
BALTIMORE, Dec. 7, 2011 — The fastest spinning star yet has been discovered, a hot blue giant rotating at a stupefying million miles an hour. Twirling 100 times faster than our sun does, the star VFTS 102 is very close to the limit at which it would be torn apart because of...
Marking 10 Years of Adaptive Optics at the VLT
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 30, 2011 — In November 2001, the NACO instrument — recently added to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile — captured its first light. Since then, its ability to bring stellar objects into sharp...
The Birth – and Growth – of Glass Ceramics
Oct 1, 2011 — When glass ceramics were first created in the 1950s, these novel optical materials rightfully caused a stir, and they remain widely desired today for a range of semiconductor, military sensing and astronomy applications. Glass ceramics are...
First Images from VLT Survey Telescope Revealed
PARANAL, Chile, June 8, 2011 — With a startling portrait of the Swan Nebula, images acquired at the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) have begun to reveal the universe in more detail than ever before from a terrestrial site. The latest telescope to be added to the Paranal Observatory...
ESO’s VLT Finds a Brilliant but Solitary Superstar
ARMAGH, Northern Ireland, May 26, 2011 — Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found that the star VFTS 682 is about 150 times the mass of the sun. But unlike other massive stars that have thus far been found only in the crowded...
Ground-based Lasers Map Earth's Magnetic Field
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 17, 2011 — Mapping the Earth's magnetic field to find oil, track storms or probe the planet's interior typically requires expensive satellites. University of California, Berkeley, physicists have now come up with a much cheaper way to measure the Earth's...
Guide Star Facility
Aug 1, 2010 — Toptica Photonics Inc. of Victor, N.Y., has won an approximately $6.4 million contract from the European Southern Observatory to develop four continuous-wave, high-power laser guide stars for its Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile. The guide...
Black Hole Emits Massive Microquasar
GARCHING, Germany, July 8, 2010 — Combining observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Chandra x-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets emitting from a stellar black hole that have ever...
Toptica Wins ESO Contract for Laser Guide Stars
VICTOR, N.Y., June 28, 2010 — Toptica Photonics has won a €5.2 million (about $6.4 million) contract from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to develop four continuous-wave, high-power laser guide stars for the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Paranal, Chile.
Chile Chosen as E-ELT Site
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, May 7, 2010 — The European Southern Observatory (ESO) Council has selected Cerro Armazones as the baseline site for the planned 42-m European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). Cerro Armazones is a mountain at an altitude of 3060 m in the central part of...
Exoplanet's Spectrum Revealed
MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 13, 2010 – By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our sun’s family of planets, astronomers have obtained the first direct spectrum of a planet orbiting a distant star, a milestone in the search for life elsewhere in...
A Closer Look at Betelgeuse
CERRO PARANAL, Chile, Oct. 15, 2009 – Two independent teams of astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever views of one of the biggest stars in the sky – a red supergiant called Betelgeuse. One of the most luminous stars known, Betelgeuse emits more light than 100,000 suns. But it is...
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