Register
Sign In
Subscribe
Advertise
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Publications
Photonics Spectra
BioPhotonics
Vision Spectra
Photonics Showcase
Photonics Buyers' Guide
Photonics Handbook
Photonics Dictionary
Newsletters
Bookstore
News & Features
Latest News
Latest Products
Features
All Things Photonics Podcast
By Technology
Lasers & Light Sources
Optics
Materials & Coatings
Imaging
Sensors & Detectors
Test & Measurement
Integrated Photonics
Spectroscopy
Biophotonics
Machine Vision
Marketplace
Supplier Search
Product Search
Career Center
Webinars & Events
Webinars
Photonics Media Virtual Events
Industry Events Calendar
Resources
White Papers
Videos
Contribute an Article
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a Member
Register
Sign In
submit press release
optical materials News
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. Metamaterials traditionally have been made by depositing physical and chemical layers onto materials such as silicon and resin and following up the deposition process with lithography. This method is expensive and can be used only with certain
Amplitude-Only Modulator Targets Photonic Device Efficiency
EXETER, England, Aug. 21, 2023 — A thin-film, amplitude-only spatial light modulator made from phase-change-based material was developed by researchers at the University of Exeter and the Institute of Optics in Madrid. The device operates in reflection and modulates the amplitude...
Fused Silica: A Transparent Look at a Complex Material
Nov 2, 2022 — Many users of fused silica may ask why there are so many different grades of the glass. How much variety can you expect from the simple chemical formula SiO2 — and does this wide variety have any effect on real-world optics? Despite fused...
Mechanoluminescent Glass-Ceramic Could Provide Readout of Structural Strain
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 8, 2022 — A team at Friedrich Schiller University Jena has developed a glass-ceramic material that emits light in response to mechanical stress. With further development, the mechanoluminescent material could provide a means to detect and monitor mechanical...
Volvo Cars Invests in Optical, Imaging Tech Startup Spectralics
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Dec. 2, 2021 — Volvo Cars has invested in Israeli optical and imaging technology startup Spectralics through its Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm. The investment gives Volvo Cars access to technology at an early stage of...
Optifab Returns to Showcase the Latest in Optics Manufacturing
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2021 — Optifab, North America’s largest optical manufacturing conference and exhibition, will return to the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center Oct. 18-21. The biennial event, organized jointly by SPIE and the American Precision Optics...
Foldable Display Material Protects Smartphones, Increases Flexibility
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 24, 2021 — A cover window for foldable IT devices designed by LG Chem uses newly developed coating technology to make the display surface as hard as glass and the folding parts of the display as flexible as plastic. The coating material protects the display...
SERS Chip Senses Near the Quantum Limit
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2021 — University at Buffalo researchers have developed a chemical sensing chip that boasts a range of potential applications, from the detection of illicit substances and dangerous materials, to counterfeit prevention. The chip, which relies on...
SMILES Brighten Fluorescent Materials
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 11, 2020 — A joint effort between researchers at Indiana University and the University of Copenhagen has yielded a new class of materials, called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices (SMILES), which the researchers say are the brightest fluorescent...
AFM and Nonlinear Optics Combine to Improve Optical Defect Detection
MONTREAL, Aug. 7, 2020 — A technique for detecting nanosize imperfections in optical materials could lead to improvements in detector technologies for applications ranging from cellphones to solar cells. The technique developed by a McGill University research team uses...
Member Exclusive
Optical Materials Bending the Rules, Shaping Our World
May 29, 2020 — From the emergence of diverse 2D materials (perovskites for efficient solar cells) and twisted bilayer graphene (superconductive at a “magic angle”) to the boom in polymer science and the promise of quantum photonics, materials science...
To read:
Login
or
Register
Metamaterial Can Change Optical Properties, Become Invisible or Reflective in IR Spectrum
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 21, 2020 — Researchers at ITMO University and the University of Exeter have developed a metamaterial capable of changing its optical properties without any mechanical input. The new metamaterial could improve the reliability of complex optical devices while...
Butterfly Wing Nanostructures Achieve Ultrablack Coloration
DURHAM, N.C., March 13, 2020 — A team at Duke University is studying butterflies with wings that are 10 to 100 times darker than everyday black objects. As little as 0.06% of the light that hits the ultrablack butterfly wings is reflected back to the eye. This percentage is close...
2D Material Structures Can Emit Customized Light in Desired Color
GENEVA, Feb. 21, 2020 — Some atomically thin 2D materials can emit customizable light in the color desired when the materials are combined together to create an “artificial semiconductor.” The discovery, made by researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE)...
Laser-Printed Plasmonic Arrays Boost IR Emission of Colloidal Quantum Dots
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Feb. 7, 2020 — Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) that emit light in the near- and mid-infrared (IR) spectral ranges have the potential to power a range of optical devices. However, fundamental physical limitations decrease the intensity of IR-emitting QDs. At...
New Nano-Barrier for Composite Material Could Strengthen Spacecraft Payloads
GUILDFORD, England, Jan. 6, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Surrey have developed a robust nano-barrier for carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) that could be used to strengthen and stabilize high-precision instrument structures for space missions. CFRPs are used in...
New Ceramic Nanocomposite Demonstrates High IR Transmittance, Thermal Stability
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec. 27, 2019 — A research team that includes scientists from Russia, Ukraine, and China has developed a Y2O3-MgO fine-grained composite ceramic material that transmits over 70% of light in the infrared (IR) range with wavelengths up to 6000 nm. Ceramic...
Nontoxic Material Used to Upconvert Low-energy Photons
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Dec. 6, 2019 — Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) and the University of Texas at Austin demonstrated the use of nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones. The use of nontoxic materials for...
Study Illuminates ‘Hidden’ Phases of Matter
CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 26, 2019 — Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) demonstrated a metal oxide with a “hidden” ferroelectric phase, which can be activated with extremely fast pulses of light. The...
Graphene Sensor Detects Substances, Boosts Food Safety
HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 7, 2018 — A new sensor design makes use of the optoelectronic properties of graphene to enable simultaneous detection of multiple substances, including bacteria and other pathogens. The design is based on 2D graphene sheets, each just one atom thick, and was...
Engineers Create New Tunable Laser Materials
LA JOLLA, Calif., July 24, 2018 — Engineers doped alumina (Al2O3) crystals with neodymium (Nd) ions to develop a new laser material capable of emitting ultrashort, high-power pulses. Their approach to materials processing resulted in a Nd-Al2O3 laser gain medium that has 24×...
New Lens Provides Nanometer-Scale Resolution
HAMBURG, Germany, March 27, 2018 — A multilayer pair of materials, tungsten carbide and silicon carbide, was used to prepare high-efficiency, high-numerical aperture (NA) multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs). In a series of studies, Saša Bajt of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton (DESY)...
Germanium Alternative Gaining Momentum for IR Optics
Feb 23, 2018 — When it comes to designing IR imaging systems, manufacturers have traditionally worked with crystalline materials such as germanium. To make compact, lightweight systems, fabricators are driven to use aspheric surfaces, which has meant diamond...
Optically Imaging the Fourth Dimension
ZÜRICH, Jan. 8, 2017 — A visual representation of the fourth dimension has been observed in two independent experiments. The theoretical groundwork for these experiments was laid by researchers at ETH Zürich. In both experiments the quantum Hall effect was applied to...
Team Studies Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanovesicles
AUSTIN, Texas., Dec. 12, 2017 — An on-demand, light-triggered drug release method — vesicular assembly of small plasmonic nanoparticles, or plasmonic vesicle — could aid in treatment of disease, support efforts to study the nervous system in real-time, provide insight...
1
2
3
>
(51 results found)
May 2024
Subscribe
Advertise
Issue Library
Latest Products
High-Power Supercontinuum Laser
SuperLight Photonics BV
Twin Table Laser System
eurolaser GmbH
Measurement Vision System
Bowers Group
Smart Camera Solutions
Pekat Vision
MicroLED Sputtering System
Singulus Technologies AG
Radiometric Camera Platform
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
Quantum Dot SWIR Sensor
Quantum Solutions
Three-Axis Stages
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
Surface-Mount MiniLEDs
Vishay Intertechnology Inc.
Wavefront Phase Camera
Wooptix
Features
Rare-Earth Doped Fibers Deliver Critical Elements to Dynamic Systems
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Bottlenecks in Process and Production Hinder Micro-LED Adoption
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Beam Deflection Units Increase the Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Photonics Spectra
, May 2024
Explore Our Content
News
Features
Latest Products
Webinars
White Papers
All Things Photonics Podcast
Videos
Our Summits & Conferences
Industry Events
Bookstore
Join Our Community
Subscribe
Advertise
Become a member
Sign in
Contribute a Feature
Suggest a Webinar
Submit a Press Release
Mobile Apps
About Us
Our Company
Our Publications
Contact Us
Career Opportunities
Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
©2024 Photonics Media
100 West St.
Pittsfield, MA, 01201 USA
[email protected]
We use cookies to improve user experience and analyze our website traffic as stated in our
Privacy Policy
. By using this website, you agree to the use of
cookies
unless you have disabled them.