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  1. New Solar Cells Could Power Devices From Indoor Light 8/11/2025

    An international team led by UCL researchers has developed durable new solar cells capable of efficiently harvesting energy from indoor light, meaning devices such as keyboards, remote controls, alarms and sensors could soon be battery free.

  2. MMA Space Reveals FlexArray Solar Array System At Small Satellite Conference In Salt Lake City Utah 8/11/2025

    MMA Space has developed a low-cost solar array capable of generating tens of kilowatts that can be manufactured in a fraction of the time of conventional solar arrays. The new FlexArray Solar Array system utilizes proprietary thin-film membranes to mount and deploy solar cells, resulting very high power-to-volume ratios.

  3. Using Lasers To Control Vibrations 8/11/2025

    Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound within massive objects to their quantum ground state, the lowest energy allowable by quantum mechanics.

  4. Twisted 2D Materials Enable A Breakthrough In Single-Photon Detection 8/8/2025

    Dr Roshan Krishna Kumar participated in a study led by ICFO that overcame a long-standing barrier in photonics, developing an ultra-sensitive detector based on twisted 2D materials capable of detecting individual photons, even in the infrared spectrum.

  5. Researchers Turn Energy Loss Into A Way Of Creating Lossless Photonics-Based Devices 8/8/2025

    Electronic, optical and quantum systems are never perfect. Energy can leak from them, which is a ubiquitous and undesirable phenomenon that leads to various problems physicists refer to as decoherence, noise and loss.

  6. Ultrasmall Optical Devices Rewrite The Rules Of Light Manipulation 8/7/2025

    In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter.

  7. Ascent Solar Technologies Establishes Rapid Thin-Film PV Delivery Process To Provide Customized Space Solar Products Ahead Of Schedule On Mission Enabling Timelines 8/7/2025

    Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), the leading U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, continues to set precedence via its new standard for rapid delivery of space-mission enabling PV products.

  8. QUT Researchers Shine Light On New Principle In Photochemistry 8/7/2025

    An international team led by QUT researchers continues to challenge a long-held assumption in photochemistry with potential applications in fields ranging from medicine to manufacturing.

  9. ICFO Researchers Overcome Long-Standing Bottleneck In Single Photon Detection With Twisted 2D Materials 8/7/2025

    While studying layered two-dimensional materials, ICFO researchers observed an anomaly—an unexpected transition in the system’s state triggered by light.

  10. Lumentum Expands U.S. Manufacturing For AI-Driven Co-Packaged Optics 8/7/2025

    Lumentum Holdings Inc. ("Lumentum"), a global leader in optical and photonic technology, today announced a significant milestone in its commitment to innovation and U.S.-based manufacturing.