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Microscope beats diffraction limit
MANCHESTER, UK – A new microscope has shattered the record for the smallest object the eye can see, beating the diffraction limit of light and promising to promote understanding of the causes of many diseases. Standard optical microscopes can see items clearly at only about 1 μm; electron microscopes can see only the surface of a cell rather than its entire structure, and there is no tool that can see a live virus. Until now, that is. By combining an optical microscope with a transparent microsp...
Microscopy Mode Garners Prize
May 1, 2011 — WITec GmbH’s True Surface Microscopy mode won the Pittcon 2011 Editor’s Gold Award for the most outstanding new product at this year’s conference and exhibition, which was held in March in Atlanta. The True Surface Microscopy...
MMIs targeted for quantum computers
BRISTOL, UK – Quantum circuits based on optical multimode interference (MMI) are being used to advance quantum computers. Building a quantum computer requires a large number of interconnected components, or gates, whose function is similar to that of a...
North American Distribution
May 1, 2011 — The Life Sciences and Instrumentation Div. of Gooch & Housego has entered into an agreement with TechnoTeam Bildverarbeitung GmbH of Ilmenau, Germany, to distribute the German company’s LMK imaging photometer systems in North America. The...
Sensors Map Planet’s Surface
May 1, 2011 — Onboard NASA’s Messenger, the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, CCD imaging sensors from e2v Technologies plc have captured new views of Mercury. The sensors were used in Messenger’s Mercury Dual Imaging System, which...
Software Maker Acquired In France
May 1, 2011 — Optis Group of La Farlède, a software editor and scientific simulator of light and human vision within virtual reality, has acquired SimplySim SAS of Sophia Antipolis, a software provider for rendering, simulation and robotics. The SimplySim...
Solar power pack lightens load for military ops
SWINDON, UK – With the aim of being up to 50 percent lighter than conventional chemical battery packs used by British infantry, the system is being developed by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with the universities of Loughborough, Strathclyde, Leeds,...
Ultrafast photodetectors made from carbon nanotubes
MUNICH, Germany – A new time-resolved laser spectroscopy process enables scientists to measure the dynamics of electrons in nanoscale photodetectors – and it’s 100 times faster than existing methods. This research is expected to lead to advances in solar...
Vision Engineering Opens Division
May 1, 2011 — Vision Engineering Ltd. of Woking, UK, has set up a manufacturing services division for optical, mechanical and electronic instrument design. Employing 120 staff in two sites in Surrey, and with international offices across North America, Europe and...
Autonomous cars to “green” up the streets
BERLIN – In no more than 30 years, possessing a driver’s license may become passé, according to automotive engineers and computer scientists at Free University of Berlin. Instead, unmanned vehicles will come to you at the press of a smartphone...
CCTV technology to foil terrorism
ESPOO, Finland – In recent history, un-attended luggage at airports, railway stations, trade fairs and other public places has become synonymous with terrorism. On many occasions, abandoned suitcases containing explosives or other dangerous substances have claimed...
New CMOS image sensor is useful in extreme temperatures
DUISBURG, Germany – A CMOS image sensor that can withstand temperatures ranging from —40 to 115 °C – making it perfectly suited for harsh industrial environments – has been developed by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic...
Cluster to boost silicon photonics transfer
Oct 1, 2010 — A number of European research and development project consortia have clustered to facilitate the transfer of silicon photonics technology from the research stage to industrial development. The 10 projects – called Boom, Historic, Helios,...
Europe’s displays of innovation
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – As the European display industry looks to expand, companies are working to innovate, pushing the boundaries of existing display technologies. “The main issues for the display industry in Europe at this time are sustaining investment with...
QDs in microcavities advance blue diode lasers
BREMEN, Germany – Newly developed monolithically integrated nitride laser microcavities that incorporate quantum dots (QDs) could be an important step in making better blue and green diode lasers as well as single-photon sources. A team of solid-state physicists at...
Quantum dot ink will make lasers printable
CLAYTON SOUTH and MELBOURNE, Australia, & PADUA, Italy – Printing techniques that already have been incorporated into solar cell manufacturing could prove useful for the production of lasers and other emitting optoelectronic devices, according to researchers from Australia and Italy. Quantum dots are...
EMCCD camera redraws the boundaries of superresolution 3-D imaging
BELFAST, UK – Researchers in the US have developed a superresolution 3-D imaging technique that resolves single fluorescent molecules with >10 times the precision of conventional optical microscopy. Using an iXon+ electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera from...
Europe makes gains in FTTH
ZAVENTEM, Belgium – There were close to 41 million fiber-to-the-home/ building (FTTH/B) subscribers worldwide in 2009, and the figure is expected to rise to 52 million in 2010, according to IDATE Consulting and Research, based in Montpellier, France. The company...
Laser facility launched for welding research
GEESTHACHT, Germany – A new facility complete with a semi-industrial laser system has been built at the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, in collaboration with Airbus Deutschland GmbH. According to professor Norbert Huber, head of material mechanics at GKSS, the center...
Optically trapped nanotools push nanoscience and applications
BRISTOL, UK – Researchers from the University of Bristol have assembled tools at nanometer scales that can be manipulated with laser tweezers to probe extremely small particles, surfaces and membranes. These so-called holographically trapped nanotools can now be...
Lasers reinforce lightweight structures
PARIS and AACHEN, Germany – At the JEC Composites Show in Paris, researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer institutes showed how lasers can make the manufacturing of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic structures more efficient, reliable and automated. Fiber-reinforced plastics...
Could it be lights out for the traditional bulb?
REGENSBURG, Germany – After 120 years of faithful service, the incandescent bulb is bowing out in favor of more energy-efficient lighting. All over the world, governments are introducing new rules to phase out the traditional lightbulb. In September 2009, the European...
Photonics in Spain: Open for business
CASTELLDEFELS, Spain – “Several industrial sectors related to photonics are growing in Spain, especially those related to energy efficiency and health,” said Silvia Carrasco, knowledge and technology transfer director at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic...
Simpler, more cost-effective biosensing
GÖTEBORG, Sweden – There are two challenges facing optical label-free biosensing, especially for clinical applications, according to Alexandre Dmitriev of Chalmers University of Technology.< “The system should be able to work in physiological fluids –...
Twisted physics
BRISTOL, UK – A group of UK scientists has light theory all tied up in a paper published in the February 2010 issue of Nature Physics. Using lasers under holographic control, Dr. Mark Dennis and fellow physicists at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and...
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