Making Mirrors from Plants
Natural materials, ranging from butterfly wings to mother of pearl, can exhibit an amazing array of optical effects. In trying to reproduce these effects, scientists have found it challenging to use... Read More
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Hamamatsu Announces Hikari: AI Driven Support for Photonics Product Selection
Hamamatsu Photonics has launched Hikari, an AI‑powered assistant that provides immediate, expert‑level guidance to researchers and engineers selecting photonics components. Hikari translates... -
Hamamatsu Photonics Announces the Return of the Photonics Innovation Award for 2027
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe is pleased to announce the return of the Photonics Innovation Award in 2027, with submissions open until 16 April 2027. Held every two years, the award provides a platform for early-stage innovators,... -
$12 Million in DOE Funding Available for Advancement of Space PV Capabilities
IESO and TechWerx are seeking applicants for the Space Photovoltaics (PV) Research and Development (R&D) Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA), which will award $12 million to R&D projects that address key challenges... -
NKT Photonics A/S Renamed to Hamamatsu Photonics A/S
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. is pleased to announce that, as of June 25, 2026, its subsidiary NKT Photonics A/S has been renamed Hamamatsu Photonics A/S and positioned as the Lasers & Fibers Business Unit within the Hamamatsu... -
Global Solar Market Hits New Record of 664 GW Installation in 2025
The world installed a record 664 GW of solar PV capacity in 2025, marking another record year for solar PV deployment according to SolarPower Europe’s Global Solar Market Outlook 2026-2030. After extraordinary growth peaks... -
GameChange Energy Named #1 Solar Tracker Company in India, Africa, and APAC, #2 Globally
GameChange Energy, a global energy infrastructure company, announced that it has been ranked the world's second-largest solar tracker company by Wood Mackenzie, one of the most respected independent research and consulting... -
SEG Solar Growth Continues with New US Plant
SEG Solar ("SEG"), a leading U.S. solar module manufacturer, today announced plans to develop its third U.S. manufacturing facility in Greater Houston, Texas. The new 4.6-gigawatt (GW) facility is expected to bring... View All
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Making Mirrors from Plants
Natural materials, ranging from butterfly wings to mother of pearl, can exhibit an amazing array of optical effects. In trying to reproduce these effects, scientists have found it challenging to use biodegradable, sustainable raw ingredients while... -
Sculpted Light Steers Ultrafast Electron Flow in an Atomic-Scale Microscope
What would it take to watch an electron move through a material? Researchers would need to see individual atoms and capture an electron’s motion at incredibly short timescales. A Technion-led team has brought those two capabilities together... -
Letting Light Wander: ICTER's Surprising Approach to Better Imaging
Light scattered in tissue usually ceases to be a useful source of information. But what if, instead of forcing it to travel along a single path, we allowed it to wander a little differently each time? Scientists from ICTER tested this seemingly... -
Nobel Prize is Awarded for Optogenetics
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 is awarded for optogenetics — a method that makes it possible to show how nerve cells shape memories, feelings and behaviours in the living brain. Peter Hegemann, at the Max-Planck-Institute... -
Robotic Lab Sets Up and Runs Optics Experiments on Demand
Every new generation of phone display, television screen, and solar panel is a result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take... -
Full-Color RGBW Microdisplays: Next Generation for Brilliant, Energy-Efficient Visualization
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have developed a full-color OLED microdisplay based on a 28 nm CMOS process, which is highly efficient and features smallest pixels. The display will be presented at Eurodisplay... -
Light-powered Soft Robots Can Keep Jumping Forever
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created teardrop-shaped soft robots that leap upward or forward when exposed to infrared light – and will keep jumping as long as the light is present. The work demonstrates a new... View All
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Freezing Fusion-Grade Plasma Jets in Flight
Specialised Imaging's SIMD32 32-frame camera captures plasma jet dynamics at 33 million frames per second to help validate the next generation of fusion simulations. Researchers in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London... -
Five Trends Set to Define Machine Vision Heading Into 2027
BitFlow, Inc., a business unit of Advantech and a premier manufacturer of high-performance frame grabbers, outlined five trends set to shape machine vision as the industry moves into 2027. The company also detailed how its flagship CoaXPress (CXP)... -
ALLUXA Provides Critical Optical Components for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Alluxa, Inc., a global leader in high-performance optical coatings, filters, and thin-film deposition technologies, has been recognized by NASA as one of the companies that provided critical components for the telescope’s Wide Field... -
BitFlow Frame Grabber Powers High-Speed Badminton Tracking Research
BitFlow, Inc., a division of Advantech, today highlighted the use of its Axion 2xE (PCIE-1122-AE) frame grabber in a peer-reviewed badminton recognition and tracking system developed by researchers Zhihao Cui (Pingdingshan University) and... -
Thermography Reveals Ice Formation Processes in Freezing Drizzle Droplets
How do ice crystals form in mixed-phase clouds? And what role do freezing drizzle droplets play in this process? Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have investigated these questions through experimental studies. The focus was... -
Hamamatsu Supports IceCube Upgrade for Neutrino Research
Hamamatsu Photonics marks the successful deployment of the IceCube Upgrade at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, delivered by the IceCube Collaboration. The newly installed sensor strings deployed... -
Thermal Imaging Helps Reveal Hidden Text in Ancient Herculaneum Papyri
Flir thermal imaging technology is helping researchers in Italy unlock hidden text from the Herculaneum papyri, a unique collection of ancient manuscripts carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Using pulsed thermography that... View All
