Nanostructured polymer lithography platform from CEA-Leti and Arkema meets sub-10 nm node
05/21/2012
Grenoble and Colombes, France--CEA-Leti and Arkema have demonstrated that nanostructured polymer lithography can meet technology nodes ranging from 20 nm to sub-10 nm. |
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Rochester Precision Optics launches ASE Optics Europe
05/17/2012
Rochester, NY-–Rochester Precision Optics (RPO) and subsidiary ASE Optics have launched ASE Optics Europe to strength its presence with European customers. ASE Optics Europe provides optical engineering and design for technolog...
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Quantum dot based chemical sensors are safer, smaller, more sensitive
05/16/2012
Giessen, Germany--European Union funded researchers have developed an optical chemical sensor that is safer, easier to install and much more sensitive than most existing chemical sensors. |
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Gold- and silver-free metamaterial shows negative refraction in the near-IR
05/14/2012
West Lafayette, IN--To create an alternative to the use of silver and gold in metamaterials, researchers at Purdue University, the Russian Quantum Center (Moscow, Russia), and DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark (Lyngb...
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Integrated food-testing spectrometer is smaller than a sugar cube
05/13/2012
Dresden, Germany--A spectrometer only 2.1 cc in volume created by a group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) is intended for testing food items for ripeness, water content, and other qualities. The res...
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Princeton Instruments spectrograph has Schmidt corrector, eliminating field astigmatism
05/09/2012
Trenton, NJ--Princeton Instruments has introduced a new toroidal-mirror-based imaging spectrograph that includes a Schmidt corrector in its optics, completely eliminating astigmatism across the field. |
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2D broadband invisibility-cloak array works in the visible spectral region
05/09/2012
In an arXiv preprint, researchers at Towson University and the University of Maryland describe their fabrication of large arrays of small 2D broadband invisibility cloaks that operate in the visible spectral region; the array c...
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Synopsys acquires RSoft, expands photonics software offering
05/09/2012
Mountain View, CA--Optoelectronics software provider Synopsys completed the acquisition of photonics design and simulation software company RSoft Design Group, extending its optical solutions offering. |
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Refraction of gamma rays in silicon opens the way for gamma-ray optics
05/04/2012
Garching, Germany and Grenoble, France--A team of European researchers has discovered "significant" refraction of gamma rays by silicon. |
NASA laser communications satellite payload contract awarded to Loral
05/04/2012
Washington, DC--NASA awarded $3 million to Space System/Loral to host a space laser communications relay demonstration terminal payload aboard a Loral commercial satellite. |
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Isolated attosecond pulses produced via "lighthouse effect" take snapshots of electron motion
05/03/2012
Essonne, France--Physicists from France and Canada are using isolated, precisely timed attosecond pulses of light to study the fleeting motions of electrons. |
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ULTRAFAST OPTICS: Tilted retroreflector array alters ultrafast temporal pulse shape
05/02/2012
A micro-optical retroreflector array is at the heart of a device developed by researchers at the Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie and the Fern Universität Hagen that temporally shapes femtoseco...
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