Editor’s Picks

  1. Zygo Exhibits Market-Leading 3D Optical Metrology Solutions At Control 2024 In Stuttgart 3/25/2024

    Zygo Corporation is delighted to announce that it will be exhibiting at the Control event 23-26 April 2024, in Stuttgart alongside sister AMETEK companies Taylor Hobson, Spectro, and Solartron.

  2. Program Announced For 3rd Annual Photovoltaics Summit 3/20/2008
    IntertechPira is pleased to announce the release of the speaker program for the third annual Photovoltaics Summit
  3. A Mir­ror Tracks A Tiny Par­ti­cle 6/30/2022

    Sensing with levitated nanoparticles has so far been limited by the precision of position measurements.

  4. Shaping The Future Of Light Through Reconfigurable Metasurfaces 5/10/2022

    The technological advancement of optical lenses has long been a significant marker of human scientific achievement. Eyeglasses, telescopes, cameras, and microscopes have all literally and figuratively allowed us to see the world in a new light. Lenses are also a fundamental component of manufacturing nanoelectronics by the semiconductor industry.

  5. Enabling Vision Restoration With Glass Encapsulation 4/28/2020

    NanoRetina announces successful preliminary results for its NR600 Artificial Retina Device using SCHOTT Primoceler’s glass laser bonding technology.

  6. Harvard-Produced Metalens Is “Next Big Step” In Optics, Virtual Reality 1/4/2018

    Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have built the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light. The breakthrough means bulky stacked lenses could soon be replaced with simpler, flat metalenses — without loss of resolution.

  7. UGA Researcher Explores How Light Can Solve Wireless Space Shortage 2/10/2017

    The proliferation of wireless devices may make daily life easier, but their signals are crowding an already limited number of available radio frequencies that enable wireless communication. 

  8. Ultra-Precise Chip-Scale Sensor Detects Unprecedentedly Small Changes In Environmental Conditions At The Nanoscale 1/18/2017

    Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and refractive index have become common with nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics resonance cavities.

  9. Boundaries No Barrier For Thermoelectricity 9/8/2020

    Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there’s at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold.

  10. LaserFest Receives NSF And DOE Funding 5/29/2009
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have awarded LaserFest, a celebration in 2010 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, $300,000 to fund educational outreach activities.