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Ultrasensitive Chirality Detector Could Improve Drug Design and Efficacy
ORLANDO, Fla., April 1, 2024 — Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) are investigating ways to enhance the development of new drugs and therapies. A tunable plasmonic platform from UCF, which enables accurate detection of chiral molecules, could help pharmaceutical companies and biomedical labs classify enantiomers with speed and precision, leading to more efficient drug development. The platform for sensing chiral molecules is the work of a team led by professor Debashis Chanda at the UCF Nanoscience
Electro-Optic Modulators Improve Signal Quality and Cancel Noise
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 12, 2023 — Delays in optical data transmission cause inconvenient lag times in communications and interfere with immersive experiences like gaming. Two factors that adversely affect the speed and reliability of optical communication are signal distortion over...
Liquid Crystal Optics Support High-Performance Compact VR Display
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 10, 2023 — Virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) devices are used to access applications in a growing number of fields, from entertainment to health care to manufacturing to tourism. These applications are transforming the way that people perceive and...
SPIE Elects de Groot into its Presidential Chain
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 23, 2022 — Peter de Groot, chief scientist at Zygo Corp., was elected to serve as the 2023 vice president of SPIE. The election brings de Groot into the SPIE presidential chain. He will serve as president-elect in 2024 and as the society’s president in...
Materials-Based Solution Accelerates Photonic Computing
ORLANDO, Fla., May 31, 2022 — Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have introduced a previously undescribed class of topological insulators. The researchers increased the speed and efficiency of light as it flows through photonic circuits, in a demonstration...
Optical Oscilloscope Could Increase Data Rates by Factor of 10,000
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 23, 2021 — Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have developed an optical oscilloscope. The instrument converts light oscillations into electrical signals to measure the electric field of light. Due to the high speed at which light...
Miniature Telescope Could Improve Lidar Performance, Advance Planar Optics
ORLANDO, Fla., July 16, 2021 — A University of Central Florida (UCF) team led by professor Shin-Tson Wu has developed a device made with cascaded liquid crystal (LC) flat optical elements, called a miniature planar telescope, that allows efficient, wide-angle, high-precision...
People in the News: 06/16/21
Jun 16, 2021 — GLASGOW, Scotland — Vector Photonics appointed Jon Orchard principal device engineer. Orchard will be focused on the company’s PCSEL technology, which it seeks to deploy in next-generation datacom, additive manufacturing, and 3D-printing...
David Hagan Named Dean of UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics
ORLANDO, Fla., June 14, 2021 — David Hagan will serve as dean of the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Hagan joined UCF in 1987 and is a founding faculty member of CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers). Hagan has...
Researchers Confirm Drastically Reduced Noise in Room Temperature Optical Fiber
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2020 — A hollow optical fiber developed by researchers at the University of Central Florida greatly reduces noise that interferes with transmitted signals, compared to single-mode fibers that are currently used to reduce noise. Researchers at the...
Industrial Laser Generates Attosecond Light
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 27, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) showed that industrial-grade lasers can be used to generate attosecond pulses. “One of the main challenges of attosecond science is that it relies on world-class laser facilities,”...
Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials Could Provide More Natural Color for Displays
ORLANDO, Fla., June 9, 2020 — Ultralow-power, ultrahigh-definition displays and screens that will be easier on the eyes could be possible with technology being developed by researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Their approach illuminates the display by...
Protective Coating Could Destroy COVID-19 Virus on Hospital Masks
ORLANDO, Fla., April 10, 2020 — The masks that health care workers wear to protect them from the virus that causes COVID-19 block the virus before it reaches their faces, but do not destroy it. To further protect doctors, nurses, and others on the front lines of the pandemic,...
Optoelectronic Superstructure Could Be Applied in Neuromorphic Computing
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 20, 2020 — University of Central Florida (UCF) researchers have taken a step toward developing neuromorphic computers — computers that mimic neurobiological architectures present in the human nervous system — by demonstrating how to create a...
Machine Learning Predicts How to Develop High-Performing Solar Cells
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17, 2019 — To determine the best way to optimize the materials used to build perovskite solar cells, a research team at the University of Central Florida turned to machine learning techniques. The researchers reviewed more than 2000 peer-reviewed publications...
Edmund Optics Announces Educational Award Recipients
BARRINGTON, N.J., Nov. 26, 2019 — Edmund Optics has announced the recipients of its 2019 Educational Award program. The award is given in recognition of outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs at nonprofit...
Infrared Detector Improves Night-Vision Capabilities at Room Temperature
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 25, 2019 — Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have devised a strategy for uncooled, tunable, multispectral infrared (IR) detection. The team showed that room-temperature photodetection using 2D monolayer graphene is possible through the...
Researchers Control Speed of Light in Free Space
ORLANDO, Fla., April 5, 2019 — Using a technique that someday help alleviate data congestion and prevent information loss, University of Central Florida (UCF) researchers have developed a way to speed up and slow down a light pulse. The new technique allows the speed of the pulse...
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Consumer AR/VR Headsets Focus on Nontraditional Optics
Mar 25, 2019 — The promise of commercial augmen-ted and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies seems always to be just around the corner. Nearly three decades have passed since the Sega Corporation announced its Sega VR gaming headset, which was one of the first of...
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IR Image Encoding and Camouflage System Uses Plasmonics to Hide Images from Naked Eye
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 22, 2018 — Using a plasmonic nanostructure, researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) have devised a way to hide information on the surface of a material, so that it is only visible through an IR lens or camera that is tuned to the correct IR...
Novel Material Demonstrates Quantum Properties
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 6, 2018 — Researchers have discovered a novel material with multiple quantum properties: Hf2Te2P, a material that is chemically composed of hafnium, tellurium, and phosphorus. The team is using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and...
Arecibo Observatory to be Led by UCF Consortium
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, March 17, 2018 — The Arecibo Observatory, the largest fully operational radio telescope in the world, will soon be under new management. A consortium led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) will start formal transition activities to take on the management of...
UCF Team Using Microscopy to Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 19, 2018 — Kyu Young Han’s group at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) and Yoon-Seong Kim’s lab at Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida are using single-molecule pull-down (SiMPull) assays to...
Team Taps Chalcogenide For Flexible Devices
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 20, 2017 — A method for making photonic devices that can bend and stretch without damage could find uses in cables to connect computer devices, or in diagnostic and monitoring systems that could be attached to the skin. A new material produced by Juejun Hu and...
NSF Awards $400K Grant to UCF for Photon Tunnel Development
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 7, 2017 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a University of Central Florida-led team $400,049 to develop photon tunnels, new devices for concentrating and controlling light. Concentrating light is used in a range of electronics and machines...
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