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Researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a method for making photonic devices - similar to electronic devices but based on light rather than - that can bend and stretch without damage....

A portable holographic field microscope developed by UConn optical engineers could provide medical professionals with a fast and reliable new tool for the identification of diseased cells and other biological specimens. The device, featured in a recent paper published by...

A team from Penn State University have created synthetic microspheres with nanoscale holes that can absorb light from all different directions across a wide range of frequencies, making it an ideal candidate for anti-reflective coatings....

Researchers from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo, Japan, have combined contact (lens-free) fluorescence microscopy and disposable microfluidic chips to create a new on-chip cell analysis platform. The platform consists of a complimentary metal-oxide...

A European research team has developed a handheld diagnostic scanner that can detect skin cancer in 30 seconds. It uses an infrared laser beam to identify blood vessels grown by malignant melanomas....

Researchers have today published findings on newly observed challenges of using ‘twisted’ light as a form of wireless, high-capacity data transmission in urban environments that could one day render fibre-optical communication obsolete....

Caltech engineers have improved a technique for taking three-dimensional (3-D) microscopic images of tissue, allowing them to see inside living creatures with greater precision than before. ...

Confocal microscopy is a type of microscopy that uses a laser along with optics to create images of objects at the nanoscale, but due to various types of noise, the images produced can sometimes turn out fuzzier than researchers would...

The huge increase in computing performance in recent decades has been achieved by squeezing ever more transistors into a tighter space on microchips. However, this downsizing has also meant packing the wiring within microprocessors ever more tightly together, leading to effects...

Brown University researchers have demonstrated a way to bring a powerful form of spectroscopy – a technique used to study a wide variety of materials, into the nano-world. Laser terahertz emission microscopy (LTEM) is a burgeoning means of characterizing the performance...