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Lasertools Cites Brazilian Research Foundation as Catalyst for Expansion
SÃO PAULO, Sept. 15, 2017 — With support from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), laser welding service provider Lasertools Tecnologia Ltd. has extended the use of solid-state neodymium-doped lasers to raise power levels and processing speeds. Lasertools was originally founded in 1998 to offer manufacturers expertise in the use of lasers to the Energy and Nuclear Research Institute (IPEN) in Brazil. Through FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Business program (PIPE), the company was approved
Cloaking Approach Prevents Light Scattering in Opaque Objects
VIENNA, Sept. 14, 2017 — In a novel approach to cloaking technology, researchers irradiated an opaque material from above, using a specific wave pattern that allowed light waves from the left to pass through the material without any obstruction. The researchers believe that...
German Federal Energy Initiative Launches FLEX-G Project
DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. 14, 2017 — The FLEX-G Cooperative Research Project has launched under the Energiewendebauen German federal construction technology initiative. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the research project’s main goal is to...
Tunable Nanoparticle Layer Switches Between ‘Mirror,’ ‘Window’
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2017 — Researchers have made a reversible electrotunable filter that can change between a reflective ‘mirror’ and a transmissive ‘window’. This discovery could help scientists create special materials whose optical properties could...
3D Printing Technique Makes Degradable Biomaterials
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 11, 2017 — A stereolithographic technique has been developed for making 3D printed biomaterials that can undergo controlled degradation. This technique uses non-covalent (ionic) crosslinking and could potentially enable the fabrication of adaptive and...
2D Material’s High Tunability Could Augment Optoelectronics Applications
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 7, 2017 — Research into a 2D material has revealed information about its tunability and band gap, that could help scientists to isolate, enhance and manipulate its most desirable qualities. Potential applications for atomically thin 2D materials range from...
Metasurface-Coated Waveguides Reduce Crosstalk
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 5, 2017 — Engineers have developed a conformal metasurface coating that can simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides, including mode confinement, polarization, scattering signature and crosstalk. The two-layer coating can...
Hogg to Lead MOCVD CST Global Project
GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 4, 2017 — Semiconductor foundry CST Global Ltd. has announced that Professor Richard Hogg at the University of Glasgow will lead a project to commission and operate a new metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) machine. The MOCVD machine results from...
Plasma-Therm to Distribute Trymax Semiconductor Ashing Products In North America
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 4, 2017 — Plasma etch equipment manufacturer Plasma-Therm LLC and plasma-based etch solutions provider Trymax Semiconductor Equipment BV have entered into a North American distribution agreement, with Plasma-Therm given the exclusive rights to distribute all...
IPG, MCM Form Laser Manufacturing Partnership
OXFORD, Mass., Sept. 1, 2017 — Fiber laser and amplifier provider IPG Photonics Corp. has entered into an agreement with metalworking and metal fabrication machine manufacturer MC Machinery Systems Inc. (MCM) to promote its growing portfolio of industrial laser systems for...
Expanded Application Labs at Amada Miyachi America to Include Ultrafast Laser Development
MONROVIA, Calif., Aug. 31, 2017 — Welding and machining developer Amada Miyachi America Inc. has expanded its application laboratories. The newly enhanced application technical center features 25,000 sq-ft of lab space situated in a new 85,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility. It is...
Optical Approach Finds Weak Spots in Jet Thermal Coating
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 29, 2017 — A strain-measurement technique uses optical analysis to reveal weak areas in the ceramic thermal barrier coatings that protect jet engine turbines from high temperatures and wear. This technique could be used to predict coating lifetime and could...
Rice University Researchers Pattern Laser-Induced Graphene on Wood
HOUSTON, Aug. 28, 2017 — A thin film of laser-induced graphene (LIG) has been patterned on a block of pine using CO2 laser scribing. Previous iterations of LIG have been made by heating the surface of a sheet of polyimide with a laser. Turning wood into graphene opens the...
From Solar Cells to LEDs, Improvements in Perovskite-Based Technology Accelerate
OKINAWA, Japan, Aug. 21, 2017 — In just seven years of development, the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has increased to the point where it rivals — and could soon overtake — the efficiency of conventional photovoltaic cells. The perovskite structure still...
3D Printer Yields Ultracompact Microfluidic Device
PROVO, Utah, Aug. 15, 2017 — A custom 3D printer built using digital light processor stereolithography (DLP-SLA) has demonstrated the ability to print a viable microfluidic device small enough achieve flow channel cross sections as small as 18 micrometers (μm) × 20...
M Squared Demonstrates 'Quantum Gravimeter'
GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 15, 2017 — Quantum laser developer M Squared has demonstrated the UK’s first industrial quantum gravity technology, a quantum gravimeter. The device, able to measure gravity, is crucial for such applications as the detection of new oil and gas deposits,...
Syntec Consolidates Businesses, Announces Technology Acquisition Plans
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2017 — Polymer optics manufacturer Syntec Optics Inc. has successfully consolidated its three different operations and plans to acquire additional optics technologies. "Syntec Optics has always kept an eye on the future,” said Al Kapoor, founder of...
Color in Nanocrystalline LEDs Can Be Tuned
MUNICH, Aug. 14, 2017 — A novel, economical way to tune the color of LEDs by altering the semiconductor nanocrystals used to make them could be feasible for industrial-scale production. In the case of some semiconducting materials used in LEDs, the color can be tuned by...
2018 Prism Awards Now Accepting Applications
BELLINGHAM, Wash., and PITTSFIELD, Mass., Aug. 8, 2017 — Applications are currently being accepted for the 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The competition is sponsored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Photonics Media to honor groundbreaking technology and...
PG&O Installs Eddy Monitoring System
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2017 — Glass and optics provider Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O) has announced the successful installation of the SL-2012A SpectraLock index dispersion enhanced monitoring (IDEM) system from optical monitor provider Eddy Co. "We are excited to announce our...
System Uses Quaternary Code to Optically Store Data
CLEVELAND, Aug. 7, 2017 — A space-saving method of storing digital data uses a quaternary (four-symbol) code to store the data, and uses heat and UV light to write and read fluorescence output from polymer film. This method could potentially require about half the space as...
Hybrid Materials Could Have Range of Optical Applications
LEIOA, Spain, Aug. 7, 2017 — Hybrid photoactive materials, created by incorporating fluorescent dyes that are used in solution into channeled inorganic structures, could be used for a range of applications including biomedicine. The materials were found to give the dye...
New Patterning Method Promises Easier Nanoscale Manufacturing
CHICAGO, Aug. 7, 2017 — A new method to precisely pattern nanomaterials could open a new path to manufacturing next generation electronic devices. Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory say their discovery could make building nanomaterials...
Graphene Dress Hits the Catwalk
Aug 1, 2017 — The little black dress has taken on a very different look thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning “miracle material” called graphene, which is known for its extraordinary optoelectronic properties. Graphene is a 2D material that is a superb...
New Polymer Material Goes for a Walk When Illuminated
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, July 26, 2017 — A new polymer material has been developed that can undulate and propel itself forward when exposed to light. Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University clamped a strip of the polymer material in a rectangular frame...
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