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Photonics-Based Skin Patch Monitors Hydration
Dehydration can now be measured with ease thanks to laser machined filter paper. Researchers at Purdue University used CO2 laser processing to create a radial array of strips on their new skin patches that change color to indicate different levels of hydration. The arrays are laminated with a water-impermeable film to form microchannels. These channels are loaded with water-activated dye. As a person sweats, the strips are activated, changing from blue to red to provide easily identifiable levels of moisture loss.
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Solar Cells Processed at Room Temperature Could Cut Costs of Wearable Devices
A simple solution-based electrical doping technique could help reduce the cost of polymer solar cells and organic electronic devices, and help move organic photovoltaics into a new generation of wearable devices. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Kyushu University in Japan, and the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands developed the technique.
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Optogenetic Tool Uses UV Light to Treat Inflammation
An optogenetic approach to regulating inflammation and immunity in the human body employs photocontrolled histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors that are selectively delivered to the target cells via UV radiation. This novel approach could further the study of inflammation and the immune system, and could ultimately lead to a means to control inflammation in vivo, while minimizing side effects to healthy tissues.
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Berliner Glas Used for EnMAP Satellite
The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP), a German Earth observation satellite mission, is using prisms from the Berliner Glas Group onboard the craft for laser communication in space. This mission will measure sun rays reflected from the Earth's surface over a wide spectral range. The spectrometers used deliver hyperspectral data from over 240 small channels of the continuous spectrum of visible light up to NIR and create a completely new level of quality for spectroscopic observation of the Earth.
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Optical Probe Overcomes Light Scattering in Deep-Brain Imaging
An implantable, ultra-narrow photonic probe has been developed which is able to deliver light deep within brain tissues. Current methods, which project spatially patterned light via free-space optics, excite neurons within superficial layers of the cortex. Light scattering and absorption in neural tissue causes the light penetration to be extremely short, making it impossible to probe brain regions deeper than about 2 mm using free-space optical methods.
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Jenoptik Receives SPE Automotive Innovation Award Read Article
FTIR Spectroscopy Enables Research at Subatomic Level Read Article
PowerPhotonic Partners with Precitec Read Article
MILabs to Provide CT System to Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Read Article
Screen Semiconductor Installs UV Laser Anneal Tool on Leti Campus Read Article
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A3 Business Forum
January 18-20, 2017 - Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort - Lake Buena Vista United States
The A3 Business Forum brings together top executives from the robotics, machine vision and motion control industries. It is the world's leading annual networking event for robotics, vision & imaging, motors, and motion control. Over 525 global automation leaders are expected to attend this Forum, making it the largest Annual Forum to date. Come and see why this is the most anticipated networking event in the industry. The A3 Business Forum will help to jump start your business in 2017!
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CALL FOR ARTICLES!
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazines (Photonics Spectra, Industrial Photonics, BioPhotonics and EuroPhotonics). Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Managing Editor Michael Wheeler at [email protected], or use our online submission form.
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