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    CRAIC Technologies
    April 21, 2025
    Scorpii advanced lighting systems include an array of light sources covering UV, visible, and near-infrared.
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    Excelitas PCO GmbH
    April 19, 2025
    The pco.edge 9.4 bi CLHS scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera offers photon counting sensitivity.
    Credit: think-design/Jochen Thamm
    Quantum tornado within momentum space: Quantum material tantalum arsenide’s electrons form vortices within momentum space—a physics concept used to analyze how electrons behave within solids. Work by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat at Würzberg and Dresden recently provided the first experimental evidence of these quantum tornadoes.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    April 17, 2025
    Scientists experimentally show electrons form vortices, tornado-like structures, within momentum space—and it’s a milestone for quantum materials research.
    Credit: Zhenxu Bai
    The team’s diamond Raman vortex laser experimental optical platform with Zhenxu Bai (left) and Hui Chen (right) of the paper. A physical image of the device is also shown on the right-hand monitor in the background.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    April 16, 2025
    What happens when you combine diamond’s broad spectral transmission range and its Raman frequency shift characteristics with the wavelength-independent nature of vortex beam generation...
    Credit: Pedro Ornelas
    Two entangled photons, A and B, are engineered to be topological. After passing through a noisy real-world system, the entanglement decays but the topology remains intact.
    Andrew Forbes
    April 14, 2025
    Advances in topology work reveal its promise as a tool to embed information into quantum light as well as read it out—forming the basis for a topological alphabet.
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    Inno-Spec GmbH
    April 1, 2025
    The BlueEye UV hyperspectral imaging system operates from 220 to 380 nm.
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    March 31, 2025
    The CMS196V4 stage supports cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy (cryo-CLEM).
    Credit: Milad Abolhasani
    A new method to tune quantum dot bandgaps taps light—which speeds the process, and is more energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable. (Credit: Milad Abolhasani)
    Sally Cole Johnson
    March 26, 2025
    Existing methods to tune bandgaps of perovskite quantum dots—which are less than ideal because they rely on chemical modifications or high-temperature reactions—just got an environmenta...
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    March 21, 2025
    The HT-X1 Plus bioimaging platform is designed for high-resolution, high-throughput 3D imaging of cells and organoids.