SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020 — Lumileds announced the appointment of Steve Barlow as president of the company’s automotive business unit. Barlow has been leading the LED solutions business unit for more than three years and has held executive leadership roles at Lumileds for more than 18 years. Steve Barlow, president of Lumileds’ automotive business unit. Courtesy of Lumileds.

TOKYO, Oct. 1, 2020 — University of Tokyo researchers have established a high-frequency laser source facility located at the university that enables investigation of time-dependent phenomena such as ultrafast chemical reactions and fast-acting biological processes. The...

HOUSTON, Sept. 28, 2020 — A projector capable of making images that elude the capture capabilities of traditional cameras could, when paired with a monochrome sensor array and sophisticated programming, enable 3D spectroscopy on the fly. On its own, the compact Hyperspectral...

MUNICH, Sept. 23, 2020 — Osram and Continental are separating their joint venture business Osram Continental, a developer of smart automotive lighting systems, and returning the business to the respective companies. The two parent companies said separation negotiations will...

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 21, 2020 — Visible yellow and green light are central to a process that researchers from North Carolina State University used to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions. After dissolving zinc meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) into pure monomers...

EXETER, England, Sept. 17, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Exeter have developed a way to manipulate light with a “synthetic” Lorentz force — which is responsible in nature for a number of phenomena such as the aurora borealis. The technique allows the...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 16, 2020 — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy and, in doing so, chart a a path to detecting material properties with greater sensitivity than is...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 14, 2020 — Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) have developed a method of reconfiguring microwave photonic filters without the need for an external device. The research may enable more compact,...

AHMEDABAD, India, Sept. 11, 2020 — Researchers at the Physical Research Laboratory at Gujarat University have developed a compact and ultrafast high-power yellow laser. The tunable laser shows excellent beam quality, helping fill a need for a practical yellow light source emitting...

FUKUOKA, Japan, Sept. 8, 2020 — A team of researchers from Kyushu University in Japan and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry in China has demonstrated stable, continuous lasing at room temperature for over an hour using low-cost perovskites. Perovskites have been an...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 7, 2020 — A research team from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Autonomous University of Madrid has applied periodic arrays containing nanoparticles of different sizes — as opposed to more conventional arrays that contain nanoparticles of a...

DAEJEON, South Korea, Sept. 3, 2020 — The high-resolution, 3D-viewing capabilities provided by a new microscopy method from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) could lead to insights into nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition in which too much...

LUXEMBOURG, Sept. 3, 2020 — By coating droplets of an aqueous solution of hydroxopropyl cellulose with silica nanoparticles, and placing these “liquid marbles” inside an organic solvent, scientists have successfully made and displayed structural colors from...

DAEJEON, South Korea, Sept. 2, 2020 — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and SM Instruments have developed a deep learning-based cough-recognition model that recognizes cough sounds in real time, and a camera that can track and record the sound of coughing...

DALLAS, Sept. 2, 2020 — Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas and their international colleagues have developed a method to create micro-LEDs that can be folded, twisted, cut, and stuck to different surfaces. The technology aims to fill a demand for bendable,...

PUCHHEIM, Germany, Sept. 1, 2020 — TechInvest Holding AG, parent company of laser scan system manufacturer SCANLAB GmbH, has taken over a 25% stake in HOLO/OR Ltd., a developer of optical elements for industrial applications. HOLO/OR, based in Ness Ziona, Israel, produces diffractive...

STANFORD, Calif., Sept. 1, 2020 — Researchers in the lab of professor Jennifer Dionne at Stanford University have structured ultrathin silicon chips into nanoscale bars to resonantly trap light, and then release or redirect it later. “We’re essentially trying to trap...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 31, 2020 — Photonic integrated circuits promise greater speed, bandwidth, and efficiency than traditional electrical circuits, but they’re not yet small enough to be used broadly in computing and other applications. To achieve energy efficiency and...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2020 — No one can accuse Michael Cumbo, the new CEO of AIM Photonics, of being risk-averse. In the middle of a pandemic that has had most of us working from home, he left the Bay Area and an executive position at ZYGO Corp. to drive across the country to...

CLEMSON, S.C., Aug. 28, 2020 — Three research teams at Clemson University joined forces to study the phase transition in nanocrystal (NC) perovskites and the correlation between phase transition and photoluminescence (PL). The researchers studied NCs that included chlorine...

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,”...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) combined twisted light and optical frequency combs to produce a new, dynamic light structure. The Optical Communications Lab at USC had been researching twisted light beams and frequency...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 25, 2020 — A new technique for identifying and quantifying viral RNA in living cells, based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and developed by scientists at Rutgers University, can detect minor changes in RNA sequences that could give viruses an...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2020 — A noninvasive digital biomarker is being developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for detecting Type 2 diabetes using a smartphone camera and deep learning algorithm. This innovation could provide a low-cost, in-home...

TOKYO, Aug. 21, 2020 — A team of researchers from Tokai University and Tokyo Motors has developed a fully planar solar-pumped laser. The laser does not require complex light-concentrating systems and is capable of efficiently powering hydrogen fuel generators. The...