Thin crystalline silicon wafers of the order of 10 µm are costly to obtain but are crucial to 3D circuit integration for microchips and for the next generation of solar cells.

A team of researchers from the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at th…

Custom fabricated to assure a reliable seal, they are manufactured to specification with stepped edges and elliptical ed…

Recognized as one of the top 100 technologies introduced this year, 3D-nanostructured chip instantly identifies unknown liquids

Invented in 2011 by a team of materials scientists and applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Appli…

The new coating products span ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), midwave i…

Researchers of the Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications Engineering (INT) at the University of Stuttgart a…

A research team at Swinburne University of Technology has overcome a fundamental law of optical science that could lead…

An optical switch that can be turned on by a single photon could point toward new designs for both classical and quantum computers.

Optical computing — using light rather than electricity to perform calculations — could pay dividends for both conventio…

TU Vienna has managed to turn the oscillation direction of beams of light – simply by applying an electrical current to a special material. This way, a transistor can be built that functions with light instead of electrical current.

TU Vienna has managed to turn the oscillation direction of beams of light – simply by applying an electrical current to…

A sensor developed in Norway gives microphones hyper-acute hearing and a sense of direction.

The microphone is packed full of microelectronics. What makes it really special, however, is an optical position sensor…

According to numerical simulation, ultracold atoms would be suspended over a metallic surface by the action of a nanopla…

The new PM160 has an Organic LED (OLED) screen for local operation as well as Bluetooth wireless technology and a USB po…

The all-steel construction of the Nexus line incorporates 5 mm thick top and bottom skins and a precision formed and wel…

TO-37 header is a common packaging solution for detector and sensing applications.

While physicists are much more accustomed to measuring the spin of electrons, protons and neutrons, Garry and Ian Robins…

PIXELTEQ will highlight its OEM wafer-level optical coatings and spectral sensor capabilities at SEMICON West 2013 in Sa…

A new photo-detection scheme makes do with few photons

At low light, cats see better than humans. Electronic detectors do even better, but eventually they too become more pron…

new undergraduate degree program at the University of Central Florida will begin this fall that will help students get j…

Researchers from Vienna University of Technology have built a new interferometer for trapped, ultracold atomic gases.

Researchers from Vienna University of Technology have built a new interferometer for trapped, ultracold atomic gases. By…

An international team of researchers has reached a milestone in experimental confirmation of a key tenet of quantum mech…

Application to Foldable Light-Emitting Devices Expected

A research team headed by Dr. Takashi Nakanishi, a Principal Researcher of the NIMS Organic Materials Group, Polymer Mat…