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David Shelton. Courtesy of AmeriCOM. AmeriCOM, the American Center for Optics Manufacturing, has added David Shelton as its president and CEO. Shelton has previous experience in the optics and...

Coherent Corp. appointed two directors to its board: Elizabeth Patrick and Michelle Sterling. Patrick recently served as senior vice president and chief people officer for Diebold Nixdorf, a...

Hamamatsu Photonics started construction on a factory at its Shingai site in Japan. The new site will serve to increase overall construction capacity in the post-processing (dicing, assembly, and...

Laser technology startup Femtum has closed a 5 million CAD ($3.7 million) seed round. The funding accelerates its commercialization of mid-IR fiber lasers tailored to semiconductor manufacturing...

The Model ZMM-1 industrial inspection monocular zoom microscope from Titan Tool Supply Inc. is designed to provide manufacturers of smaller components and materials with reliable, accurate, real-time...

The Dektak Pro from Bruker is a benchtop stylus profilometer for microelectronics, semiconductor, display, solar, medical, and materials science applications. The benchtop system provides an expanded...

The A-523 from PI is a Z-tip-tilt stage designed for alignment applications in optics, semiconductors, precision assembly, and photonics. The stage uses a parallel-kinematics, integrated design with...

Coherent Corp.’s 905-nm triple-junction edge-emitting semiconductor lasers enable direct time-of-flight lidar systems in a wide variety of mission-critical industrial robots exposed to...

NSOM is suitable for studies on the mesoscopic scale (several tens to hundreds of molecular dimensions). It has become an important tool in research and applications of semiconductors, organic layers...

The applications where rapid detection of light is a must are many. They include a wide variety: semiconductor inspection, gene sequencing, oil well logging and high-energy physics. The reasons for...

The wavelength range of commercially available LEDs with single-element output power of at least 5 mW is 275 to 950 nm. Each wavelength range is made from a specific semiconductor material family,...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

This application note demonstrates spectral and time-resolved PL analysis of halide perovskites under high pressure using the RMS1000 and a diamond anvil cell. By studying perovskites in extreme...

The optoelectronic properties of an OLED device are mapped using an RMS1000 Confocal Raman Microscope in spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence and electroluminescence imaging modes. These...

Wlodzimierz Strupinski, Ph.D., and Marcin Gebski, Ph.D., of VIGO Photonics offer perspective to industry specialists and experts who share a technological interest in the epitaxy, processing, and...

Nature offers us a full assortment of atoms, but quantum engineering is required to put them together in an elegant way to realize functional structures not found in nature. A particularly rich...

Lasers are made of physical matter. Therefore, the natural degradation of their materials can cause variability in performance. Aging optics often cause slow changes in laser behavior and, when left...

3D optical methods have come a long way from the early stereo viewers and multiangle sliding images that existed more than a century ago. As measurement tools, these methods have in the past 40 years...

A factor, F, indicating the increase in shot noise in an avalanche photodiode as compared with the ideal multiplier, which is noiseless. The noise, which results from variations in avalanche gains,...

In various scientific fields, the term acceptor has distinct meanings: Chemistry: An acceptor is an atom, ion, or molecule that receives electrons during a chemical reaction. In the context of...

The Kerr effect, named after the physicist John Kerr who first observed it in 1875, is a nonlinear optical phenomenon where the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied...

Scribing and engraving laser systems are types of laser equipment used for precision cutting, marking, and engraving on various materials. Scribing laser systems: Definition: Scribing...

Intel is making headlines after landing a huge deal with Amazon, receiving a $3B grant from the U.S., and announcing moves to make its foundry business its own entity. All this and more acquisitions...

The European Union is working to establish a new pilot line for photonic integrated circuits. Sivers is halting plans for a spinout photonics business. And the Korea University College of Medicine...

NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex will be the site of a new National Semiconductor Technology Center. The University of Tokyo has found a way to make Raman spectroscopy 100 times faster. The...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

Germanium crystal refers to a crystalline form of the element germanium (Ge), which is a metalloid and semiconductor commonly used in various electronic and optical applications. Germanium crystals...