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Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 13, 2020 — In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and other institutions, are being used to screen large numbers of people for elevated body temperatures quickly and reliably. FLIR thermal imaging products for temperature screening, which include hand-held and permanently mounted systems, are among the systems being used. The same FLIR sensor,
COVID-19 Increases Demand for Disinfecting UVLEDs ANSAN, South Korea, March 12, 2020 — Seoul Viosys, a developer of UV LED technology and a subsidiary of Seoul Semiconductor, announced this week that customer inquiries for its violeds UV LED products, which can be used for sterilizing bacteria, increased more than five times over the...
Coronavirus Testing Kits to Be Developed Using RNA Imaging Technology BURNABY, British Columbia, March 20, 2020 — A Simon Fraser University (SFU) research team will be using RNA imaging technology it has created to develop coronavirus testing kits. The decision to apply the technology, called Mango, to COVID-19 testing is in response to a funding opportunity...
Smartphone-Based System Tests for Infectious Diseases, Sends Results to Doctor CINCINNATI, March 20, 2020 — Engineers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into a smartphone. The lab, which is about the size of a credit card, can diagnose infectious diseases such as coronavirus, malaria, HIV, or Lyme. It can also...
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...
CRISPR Technology to Target RNA Viruses Such as Coronavirus NEW YORK, March 17, 2020 — Researchers at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a new kind of CRISPR screen technology to target RNA. Many CRISPR-based genetic screens can only edit or target DNA, and cannot target RNA viruses like coronavirus or...
Optomagnetic Technology Could Reduce Coronavirus Diagnostic Time RAMAT GAN, Israel, March 16, 2020 — A technology developed at Bar-Ilan University, based on a combination of optics and magnetic particles, can rapidly test samples of patients potentially infected with the coronavirus. Current methods for diagnosing coronavirus take approximately one...
Energy Department Labs Close to Thousands of Visitors WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun to restrict access and to ramp down activities at its national laboratories in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The labs serve more than 30,000 visiting researchers each year. Of the 10 Office of...
AR Rapid Deployment Kits Aid Response to COVID-19 JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 13, 2020 — To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing...
Photonics Market Begins to Feel Impacts of COVID-19 PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2020 — With COVID-19 now declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and states of emergency declared around the globe, the photonics market is starting to feel the impacts of the virus — global supply chains are beginning to slow, and...
Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From Photonic Crystal at Optical Wavelengths TROY, N.Y., March 23, 2020 — Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. But a material that appears to exceed the limits set by Planck’s law has been experimentally...
Chip-Based Quantum Key Distribution Could Secure Quantum Networks Cost-Effectively BRISTOL, England, March 19, 2020 — A research team at the University of Bristol has demonstrated chip-based devices that contain all the optical components necessary for quantum key distribution (QKD). The team showed that secure quantum key exchange could be accomplished between two...
SPIE Cancels DCS In-Person Conference, COVID-19 Leads to Surge in Online Conferences PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2020 — SPIE has announced that it is canceling the in-person format of April’s Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference and moving online in the wake of increased coronavirus awareness. With WHO officially declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, several optics...
Researchers Call for Robots to Fight COVID-19 PITTSBURGH, March 23, 2020 — Robots conceivably could perform such tasks as disinfecting surfaces, taking temperatures of people in public areas and at ports of entry, providing social support for quarantined patients, collecting nasal and throat samples for testing, and...
Hamamatsu Photonics Acquires 55% Share in Korean Branch HAMAMATSU CITY, Japan, March 20, 2020 — Hamamatsu Photonics has acquired a 55% stock share in Hamamatsu Photonics Korea Co. Ltd., a new company where Hamamatsu Photonics has shifted its local sales distributor activities. Hamamatsu aims to increase sales in Asia by strengthening its sales...
Supercomputing Centers Will Expedite Access to Fight Coronavirus MUNICH, March 17, 2020 — Effective immediately, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of Germany’s three national supercomputing centers, will help researchers working on COVID-19 research gain expedited access to computing resources. This includes...
Dancing Electrons Solve Long-Standing Puzzle of Oldest Magnetic Material CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 23, 2020 — An international team of experimental and theoretical researchers has discovered fingerprints of the quasiparticles that drive the phase transformation in magnetite, according to a paper published March 9 in Nature Physics. Using an ultrashort laser...
Imaging Agent Illuminates Cancer and Surrounding ‘Hijacked’ Cells ST. LOUIS, March 18, 2020 — Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have developed an imaging agent that can identify multiple types of tumors as well as the surrounding normal cells that the cancer uses as a shield against attempts to destroy it. “This...
High-Speed Microscopy Tracks Millisecond Voltage Changes in Neurons of Awake Mice BERKELEY, Calif., March 23, 2020 — University of California, Berkeley, researchers have built a microscope that can image the brain of an alert mouse 1000 times a second and record the passage of millisecond electrical pulses through neurons. The new imaging technique combines...
Atomic-Scale Imaging Reveals Strength Capabilities of Thin Film MINNEAPOLIS, March 18, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used high-resolution TEM microscopy to image the atomic structure of ultrathin zeolite nanosheets, which are used by industries as specialized molecular filters. The researchers observed...
Researchers Fool Autonomous Vehicle Systems with Phantom Images BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9, 2020 — Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Research Center found that they can trick the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response to “phantom” images projected on a...
Rensselaer Offers AiMOS Supercomputer to Combat COVID-19 TROY, N.Y., March 23, 2020 — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is enlisting AiMOS, one of the world’s top supercomputers, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. RPI said it is reaching out to the research community, including government entities, universities,...
Metasurface-Based Contact Lenses Could Correct Red-Green Color Blindness TEL AVIV, Israel, March 6, 2020 — A custom contact lens could offer a convenient way to help people who experience color blindness. Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) embedded large-scale, plasmonic metasurfaces into off-the-shelf contact lenses and studied the ability of the...
Light and Heat Create New Biocompatible Microparticles DURHAM, N.C., March 16, 2020 — Using light and heat, researchers at Duke University developed a technique for manufacturing biocompatible microparticles for potential use in drug delivery, diagnostics, and tissue engineering. According to research scientist Stefan Roberts, the...
NIH Challenge Encourages Development of Hand-Held Devices for Disease Diagnosis BETHESDA, Md., March 16, 2020 — To spur the development of noninvasive, hand-held, digital technologies to detect, diagnose, and guide therapies for diseases with high global and public health impact, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a Technology Accelerator...
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