Blood and sweat: Wearable medical sensors will get major sensitivity boost
Credit: Kirill Voronin et al./Sensors Biosensors integrated into smartphones, smart watches, and other gadgets are about to become a reality. ...
Tag: Optics
Moving precision communication, metrology, quantum applications from lab to chip
Reducing the size and cost of applications within the UV to IR spectrum by moving them to wide bandgap material ...
Hybrid microscope could bring digital biopsy to the clinic
Credit: Images courtesy of Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By adding infrared capability to the ubiquitous, standard ...
Machine learning implemented for quantum optics by Skoltech scientists
Credit: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-020-0248-6 As machine learning continues to surpass human performance in a growing number of tasks, scientists at ...
Cracks in perovskite films for solar cells easily healed, study finds
Credit: Padture Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study reveals good news for the possibility of using ...
Using sound and light to generate ultra-fast data transfer
Credit: University of Leeds Researchers have made a breakthrough in the control of terahertz quantum cascade lasers, which could lead ...
Silver sawtooth creates valley-coherent light for nanophotonics
Credit: Han and Ye, University of Groningen. Scientists at the University of Groningen used a silver sawtooth nanoslit array to ...
Light burns with new acids
Credit: Tsuyoshi Kawai Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) report a photo-acid generator (PAG) that generates Lewis ...
FEFU scientists developed method to build up functional elements of quantum computers
Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia), together with colleagues from FEB RAS, China, ...
Lasers etch a ‘perfect’ solar energy absorber
Credit: by Sohail A. Jalil, Bo Lai, Mohamed ElKabbash, Jihua Zhang, Erik M. Garcell, Subhash Singh & Chunlei Guo The ...
New tool monitors real time mutations in flu
Gold-based tool could help virologists stop replication of virusesCredit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A Rutgers-led team has ...
Roll up
New research builds upon carbon nanotubes to create a novel functional structureCredit: © 2020 Maruyama et al. For decades, carbon ...
First view of hydrogen at the metal-to-metal hydride interface
Credit: University of Groningen University of Groningen physicists have visualized hydrogen at the titanium/titanium hydride interface using a transmission electron ...
Mechanism for improvement of photoluminescence intensity in phosphor material
Utilization in material design for developing phosphor materials for white LEDsCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ...
Researchers combine X-rays and laser light to image sprays
New approach could lead to more efficient and less polluting fuel combustionCredit: Edouard Berrocal, Lund University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have ...
UVphotonics to showcase custom UV LEDs and modules at Photonics West
Credit: FBH/P. Immerz UVphotonics will present novel UV LED developments with emission wavelengths from 330 nm to as low as ...
Researchers capture first images of oxygen in cancer tumors during radiation therapy
Using specialty cameras and an oxygen probe drug injection, researchers at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center can now image oxygen ...
Artificial intelligence predicts treatment outcome for diabetes-related vision loss
New algorithm poised to help doctors individualize treatment for diabetic macular edemaCredit: Sina Farsiu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new ...
As seen in movies, new meta-hologram can be used as a communication tool
Credit: Junsuk Rho(POSTECH) Hologram techniques are already used in our everyday life. A hologram sticker to prevent from counterfeiting money, ...
How to take a picture of a light pulse
Until now, complex experimental equipment was required to measure the shape of a light pulse; a team from TU Wien ...