Editor’s Picks

  1. White Paper: User-Defined Coatings And Polarization Ray Tracing 2/3/2010
    User-defined Coatings and Polarization Ray Tracing are important features, provided by LightTools, for modeling a wide variety of illumination systems. By Optical Research Associates
  2. Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light 4/27/2005
    Scientists at Harvard University have shown how ultra-cold atoms can be used to freeze and control light to form the "core" – or central processing unit – of an optical computer. Optical computers would transport information ten times faster than traditional electronic devices, smashing the intrinsic speed limit of silicon technology
  3. Star Trek's Vision Becomes Reality 3/4/2016

    "Beam me up, Scotty" - even if Captain Kirk supposedly never said this exact phrase, it remains a popular catch-phrase to this day.

  4. Best Quantum Receiver 11/14/2014

    Researchers try to meet the inexorable demands made on the telecommunications grid by improving various components. In October 2014, for instance, scientists at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands did their part by setting a new record for transmission down a single optical fiber: 255 terabits per second.

  5. Oerlikon Adds B-Stage Epoxy To Its Cover Glass Portfolio 6/13/2007
    Oerlikon Optics is a leading supplier of cover glasses to the semiconductor packaging industry and is well known for the outstanding cleanliness of its coatings. By adding b-stage epoxy to the portfolio these cover glasses are made suitable to a broader variety of applications
  6. The Solar Cell That Also Shines: Luminescent 'LED-Type' Design Breaks Efficiency Record, Illuminates 50-Year Mystery 4/19/2012

    To produce the maximum amount of energy, solar cells are designed to absorb as much light from the Sun as possible. Now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have suggested – and demonstrated – a counterintuitive concept: solar cells should be designed to be more like LEDs, able to emit light as well as absorb it. The Berkeley team will present its findings at the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2012), to be held May 6-11 in San Jose, Calif.

  7. DuPont Kapton Colorless Polyimide Film Enables World Record For Flexible CdTe Photovoltaic Efficiency 6/2/2011
    DuPont Kapton colorless polyimide film, a revolutionary new material currently in development for use as a flexible superstrate for cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has enabled a new world record for solar cell conversion efficiency.
  8. Accumold Makes New Strategic Micro AM Move 1/19/2023

    Leading micro molding innovator Accumold has announced a further investment in its micro additive manufacturing (AM) capability having just finalised the purchase of a second Fabrica 2.0 machine from Nano Dimension.

  9. Novalux Sells Silicon Valley Wafer Fab 12/13/2007
    Novalux, Inc., developer of Necsel laser technology, has sold its Sunnyvale wafer fabrication facility to an undisclosed Silicon Valley company
  10. Light And Sound In Silicon Chips: The Slower The Better 9/16/2019

    Integrated circuits in silicon enable our digital era. The capabilities of electronic circuits have been extended even further with the introduction of photonics: components for the generation, guiding and detection of light.