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IR Imaging Technology Could Improve Breast Cancer Detection
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 28, 2019 — Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and physicians from the Rochester Regional Health System (RRHS) have developed a noninvasive, cost-effective method using infrared (IR) technology to locate hard-to-find breast cancer tumors. The system consists of an IR camera on a track mounted underneath a cushioned table. It is angled and can be adjusted as the clinician moves it to take images. The team is also using advanced computer simulation technology to do predictive analysis on...
Luminate NY Accelerator Announces Round II Winners
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 28, 2019 — Ovitz Corp., the developer of individualized contact lenses to improve vision quality, took the top prize at the Luminate NY competition — $1 million. The Round II winners were announced on June 27 during the Light and Sound Interactive...
National Photonics Initiative Chairman Ed White Leads TAP Facility Tours at LSI 2019
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 28, 2019 — One of the many perks of attending the Light and Sound Interactive (LSI) conference is getting a tour of the AIM Photonics facility. The 30,000-sq-ft facility is located on the Kodak campus in Rochester, N.Y., and boasts state-of-the-art equipment...
Luminate NY Set to Award $1M to Startup
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 27, 2019 — One startup company will have the opportunity to accelerate its optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) businesses with a $1 million award from Luminate NY, to be presented June 27 at the Rochester International Jazz festival, which coincides with the...
Washable Electronic Textiles Detect Electrocardiogram Signals
DAEJEON, South Korea, June 27, 2019 — A transistor fiber for use in wearable electronics has been developed by researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). The transistor, which has the characteristics of a textile, can be inserted into clothing and retain an...
Scientists Shape Light to Travel Along a Single Branch
VIENNA, June 26, 2019 — Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien Vienna) showed how the branched flow of light can be made to propagate along a single branch rather than along many branches at the same time. Their approach, which they think could be...
UTA and ARL to Develop Longwave-IR Photonic Device Technology
ARLINGTON, Texas, June 25, 2019 — A research team from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is working with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to develop nanophotonic devices that could have applications in thermal imaging and resonant filtering. The researchers’ objective is...
Space Is Filling Up for the AIM Photonics Summer Academy
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25, 2019 — Join fellow students and colleagues from the photonics industries for a week of intensive short courses on integrated photonics, taking place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., this summer from July 22-26. Two...
‘Self-Healing’ Coating Minimizes Lead Leakage from Perovskite Cells
ONNA, Japan, June 25, 2019 — Adding a protective layer of epoxy resin to the top of a perovskite solar cell (PSC) can significantly reduce the amount of lead that the cell discharges into the environment, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)...
Researchers Synthesize Quasi-2D Gold Film
MOSCOW, June 24, 2019— Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film, showing how materials not usually classified as two-dimensional can form atomically thin layers. The...
Tiny Light Box Merges States of Light, Matter
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, June 24, 2019 — A nanosize light box, built from stacked atomically thin material, has demonstrated the ability to capture and amplify light and link light to matter at the nanolevel. The light box, created by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, makes...
Wearable NIRS Device Reveals How Seals Prepare to Dive
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, June 24, 2019 — Scientists at the University of St. Andrews have created a wearable, noninvasive device based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) that can be used to investigate blood volume and oxygenation patterns in freely diving marine mammals, such as seals....
Machine Learning-Based System Automates Street Sign Detection and Classification
MELBOURNE, Australia, June 21, 2019 — Geospatial scientists at RMIT University have used deep learning to produce an autonomous system for detecting traffic signs on Google Street View images. The system could allow local governments and traffic managers to monitor street signs and...
Nonlinear Optical Process Could Improve Solar-Powered Desalination
HOUSTON, June 20, 2019 — Researchers at Rice University have improved the efficiency of their solar-powered desalination system by more than 50% by concentrating sunlight into “hot spots.” Using the same amount of light, the researchers were able to increase the...
New Pulsed Laser Poised to Cut Auto Production Time
TAMPERE, Finland, June 20, 2019 — European scientists are developing a new pulsed laser that has the ability to cut and shape ultrahigh-strength boron steel much faster and with less waste than existing technology. The project, called PULSE, has received a €5 million ($5.7...
Squeezed Light Reduces Noise, Could Speed Quantum Sensing
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 20, 2019 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) physicists studying quantum sensing, which could affect a range of potential applications from airport security scanning to gravitational wave measurements, said that certain quantum sensors can use a...
Drone Using IoT Tech Could Lead to Earlier Detection of Forest Fires
MADRID, June 19, 2019 — An automatic flight system with real-time connectivity could help prevent large-scale forest fires by locating and detecting fires where and when they start and communicating this information to emergency services in real time. The system, composed...
Quantum Dot Microscope Can Measure Electric Surface Potentials of Single Atoms
JÜLICH, Germany, June 18, 2019 — A new scanning quantum dot microscopy method can measure the electric potential of a sample at atomic accuracy. It was developed by a team from Forschungszentrum Jülich, working with researchers from two other institutions. The new technique...
New Imaging Technique Targets Cholesterol in Arterial Plaque
BELLINGHAM, Wash., and CARDIFF, Wales — Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T) have developed a cholesterol-detection imaging technique using laser photoacoustics and continuous wave lasers to allow for more timely treatment of atherosclerosis.
Light Energy and Biomass Can Be Converted to Fuel and Hydrogen
DALIAN, China, June 17, 2019 — A team at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led by professor Feng Wang, has developed a process for using light energy to drive the use of downstream biomass products to produce hydrogen and diesel fuel...
A Light-Driven Process to Oxidize Plastic Surfaces for Industry Safely
OSAKA, Japan, June 17, 2019 — Researchers at Osaka University have developed a light-driven process for oxidizing polypropylene (PP), a widely used plastic, without creating waste. The process uses a reactive chlorine dioxide radical to make the plastic reactive. PP is normally...
Research could Accelerate AI Systems to Compute Faster Than Human Brain
ALBANY, N.Y., June 17, 2019 — Two State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) researchers have been awarded $900,000 in funding from the Rome-based Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to conduct a study on brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing systems...
Diamond Metalens Could Improve Quantum Device Performance and Scalability
PHILADELPHIA, June 14, 2019 — At the chemical level, diamonds are no more than carbon atoms aligned in a 3D crystal lattice. Even a diamond that looks flawless contains defects that can absorb or emit light. Small defects in diamonds called nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers hold...
UV Light Used to Characterize Devices, Improve Performance
NAGOYA, Japan, June 13, 2019 — Researchers from the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) used UV light to test the performance of miniaturized semiconductors for next-generation electronics. Specifically, the team determined the interface properties of a graphene-gallium...
Machine Learning and Computer Vision Lead to Smarter, More Precise Crop Management
NORWICH, England, June 12, 2019 — Researchers at the Earlham Institute (EI), working with G’s Growers in Ely, England, have developed a machine learning platform that works with computer vision and ultra-large-scale images taken from the air to help categorize lettuce crops in...

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