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Macleod Wins EPSRC Photography Competition
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 12, 2017 — James Macleod at the University of Cambridge has won top prize in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's (EPSRC's) national science photography competition. Macleod's image of swirling graphene ink in alcohol, which can be used to print electrical circuits onto paper, came first in the two categories of Innovation and Equipment & Facilities, in addition to its overall win. "We are working to create conductive inks for printing flexible
Waveguide Device Transmits Laser Light Through Direct Contact With Skin
COLUMBIA, Mo., April 11, 2017 — A device that transmits laser light into human tissue through direct contact, rather than open-air transmission, could help reduce safety concerns in laser-based dermatological procedures and improve targeted laser transmission through surface...
Photonics21 PPP Annual Meeting Highlights Growth, Potential
BRUSSELS, April 11, 2017 — Photonics21's Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP) Annual Meeting highlighted its partnership with the European Commission and its solid growth above global GDP. Taking place at Le Plaza Hotel in Brussels, the meeting welcomed incoming...
EU Invests €15.5M in Photonic Packaging Pilot Line
CORK, Ireland, April 11, 2017 — To provide Europe with infrastructure to support the industrial development and manufacture of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), the European Union is investing €15.5 million ($16.4 million) in a new international consortium led by the...
Gold Spring-Shaped Coils and Lasers Detect Twisted Molecules
BATH, England, April 10, 2017 — A novel technique that uses powerful lasers and gold spring shaped coils 5,000 times thinner than human hair could improve pharmaceutical design, telecommunications and nanorobotics, as it has the ability to detect twisted molecules. Molecules twist...
Changing the Shape of CQDs Could Enable Continuous QD Lasing
TORONTO, April 7, 2017 — A novel method for fabricating lasers uses saucer-shaped quantum dots (QDs) to produce continuous laser light that could be brighter, less expensive and more tuneable than current devices. Although the ability to produce laser light using colloidal...
Developing an Eco-Friendly Deep-UV Lamp
ITHACA, N.Y., April 6, 2017 — Using atomically controlled thin monolayers of gallium nitride (GaN) and aluminum nitride (AlN) as active regions, a research group has shown the ability to produce deep-UV emission with an LED between 232 and 270 nm wavelengths. Currently, most...
Optical Solution to RF Signal Control Could Lead to Faster Wireless Communications
CAMPERDOWN, Australia, April 6, 2017 — Radio frequency (RF) signal control at sub-nanosecond time scales has been demonstrated on a chip-scale optical device, a discovery that could pave the way for improved wireless communication systems. To reduce time delay and improve the...
Echo Raises $7.5M for Hybrid Microscope
SAN DIEGO, April 6, 2017 — Startup company Echo has received funding in the amount of $7.5 million to scale its manufacturing of a new microscope. The Revolve microscope is a hybrid microscope that switches from upright to inverted modes, with hopes of saving labs money and...
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to Showcase EOS Imaging System
TEL AVIV, Israel, April 6, 2017 — EOS Imaging, developer of 2D and 3D orthopedic medical imaging announced the first sale of an EOS platform in Israel to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The platform will be installed at the Dana-Dwek hospital, one of four main hospitals that make...
Turning Technology Into a Business Opportunity
PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 4, 2017 — As a scientist, technician or engineer, you are fortunate to be involved with the development of cutting-edge technology on almost daily basis. But how much of your focus is on the commercial value of the work you are doing? Gaining exposure to the...
Phototherapy Could Thwart Neuropathic Pain
SÃO PAULO, Brazil, April 4, 2017 — Low-level laser therapy could provide a non-invasive and effective method for treating neuropathic pain cause by nerve damage, spinal cord injury or diseases such as diabetes. In studies performed at the Biomedical Science Institute (ICB-USP) in...
A Faster Single-Pixel Camera Opens Up New Possibilities for Industrial Lensless Imaging
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 3, 2017 — Compressed sensing is a new computational technique for extracting large amounts of information from a signal. Researchers at Rice University built a camera that could produce 2-D images using only a single light sensor rather than the millions of...
Smartphone-Based Assay Can Detect Male Infertility
BOSTON, April 3, 2017 — A smartphone-based device for point-of-care male infertility screening has demonstrated the ability to detect sperm concentration and motility with 98 percent accuracy. The smartphone-based assay is easy to use and can be performed at home or in a...
Multiview Video Streaming Emerges as a Form of Visual-Content Representation
SAARBRÜCKEN, Germany, March 31, 2017 — Multiview video streaming — the ability to view a recorded scene from different perspectives — could revolutionize the entertainment industry and the workplace. Possible applications range from consumer electronics, computer games and...
Imaging Gamma Rays to Help Decontaminate Fukushima
KYOTO, Japan, March 31, 2017 — A novel camera for visualizing radioactive hotspots is being used to develop radioactivity maps for use in the decontamination of the site of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima. The Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) can perform...
Call for Nominations! Submit Your Choice for Industry Beacon
PITTSFIELD, Mass., March 31, 2017 — For the second year running, Photonics Media is honoring notable people in the photonics and optics industry, whose outstanding contributions have advanced light-based technologies in the scientific, business, academic and consumer communities....
Lasers Bring Dinosaurs to Life
Mar 30, 2017 — Most of our collective sense of what dinosaurs looked like stems from blockbuster films like “Jurassic Park.” The truth is, for years these depictions relied on artistic renderings based primarily on scant clues and what archaeologists and...
Optoelectronic Device Speeds Parallel Processing
DAEJEON, South Korea, March 30, 2017 — To increase the speed of data transfer when many microprocessors are used in parallel, a novel device has been developed that uses surface plasmons to mediate optoelectronic imaging. The on-chip plasmonic switching device consists of a 2D disordered...
University of Illinois Joins Zeiss Program for Testing New Devices
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 30, 2017 — A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zeiss has named the Core Facilities at IGB as an official Zeiss labs@location Partner. The model facility will allow...
Bach to Supply NIRPS Gratings
BOULDER, Colo., March 30, 2017 — Custom diffraction grating manufacturer Bach Research Corp. has been awarded a contract by the NIRPS (Near Infrared Planet Searcher) consortium to manufacture and deliver a custom R4 echelle grating and spares that will be used in the NIRPS...
Nanoscale Sensor Detects Disease
SYDNEY, March 28, 2017 — A new nanoscale sensor has been developed that can help detect cytokines — molecules that play a critical role in cellular response to infection, inflammation, trauma and disease. Researchers at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence...
Optical Metamaterials Use III-V Semiconductors as Building Blocks
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 28, 2017 — Materials that are more efficient than metals and that feature wider bandgap measures than silicon are being developed for possible use in optical metamaterial applications. All-dielectric materials using III-V semiconductors could be used to...
Nanoparticle Crystal Used to Control Light
EVANSTON, Ill. and ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 27, 2017 — A complex clathrate colloidal crystal has been created by connecting nanoparticles using DNA. One potential application for the novel crystal structures is the control of light.
fNIRS Tool Measures Brain’s Response to Acute Pain
BELLINGHAM, Washington and CARDIFF, U.K., March 27, 2017 — Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) — an optical imaging tool for monitoring regional blood flow and tissue oxygenation — is being explored as an option to track the brain's response to acute pain in adults and infants. Researchers from...

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