Spiraling Light – Revolutionizing OLEDs And Night Vision | Syntec Optics

Ca3SiO, a chemical compound discovered by researchers, is a direct transition semiconductor, making it a potentially bright infrared LED and infrared detector component. This semiconductor compound, made up of calcium, silicon, and oxygen is inexpensive and non-toxic. Today’s infrared semiconductors contain toxic chemical elements like cadmium and tellurium. Ca3SiO could be used to create cheaper [..]

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SPACe: A New Era In Drug Discovery | Syntec Optics

Excessive fat accumulation in the liver can lead to serious medical problems, including liver failure. Thus, understanding the distribution of lipids within the liver is critical in diagnosing fatty liver diseases. A team of researchers has now shown that near-infrared hyperspectral imaging permits the visualization of lipid content in mouse liver. This technique can facilitate [..]

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Leveraging Thermal Imaging Technology For Food Preservation | Syntec Optics

Temperature recordings were widely used as a screening tool to help detect COVID-infected individuals. Traditional approaches to temperature screening have several important things that could be improved. Because absolute temperature is measured in the axilla, mouth, or eardrum rather than the body’s core temperature, it has limited utility. As a result, there is no accurate [..]

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SERS Gets Smarter: AI For Toxin Detection | Syntec Optics

Electrochemiluminescence, also known as electrogenerated chemiluminescence, is one of the most widely used techniques for producing light through efficient electron transfer (ECL). Individual ECL spectra showing emitted light are collected continuously during a potentiodynamic course, allowing ECL mechanisms to be investigated. The obtained spectra are spooled together and plotted along the applied potential axis, which [..]

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High-Impact Organic Metal Halide Hybrids For Optoelectronics | Syntec Optics

Researchers used a sensitive scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM) to directly measure the optical fields of AGP waves propagating in a nanometer-thin waveguide to demonstrate direct near-field optical imaging of acoustic graphene plasmon (AGP) fields. Scientists could observe the thousandfold compression of mid-infrared light using this method. The strategy paves the way for potentially [..]

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Rhobo6: A Breakthrough In Live Imaging Of The ECM | Syntec Optics

An AI tool opens up new possibilities for analyzing microscope images. According to a study, the tool, which has already received international recognition, has the potential to fundamentally change microscopy and pave the way for discoveries and applications in both research and industry. Deep learning has taken the world by storm, having a massive impact [..]

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Tissue Model Reveals Role Of Blood-Brain Barrier In Alzheimer’s | Syntec Optics

The implementation of the idea of liquid computers would be revolutionary for microfluidics, not because microfluidics seeks computational capabilities but because it would enable the encoding of a variety of algorithms (laboratory procedures) into the structure of the device. Researchers show the successful implementation of advanced sequential logic in droplet microfluidics, whose principles rely on [..]

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OAM Light: A New Frontier In Non-Invasive Medical Diagnostics | Syntec Optics

Point-scanning imaging systems are among the most widely used tools for high-resolution cellular and tissue imaging, benefiting from arbitrarily defined pixel sizes. The resolution, speed, sample preservation, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of these systems are difficult to optimize simultaneously. Researchers show these limitations can be mitigated via the use of deep learning-based supersampling of undersampled [..]

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New Accelerometers Enable All-Optical Sensing Networks

The eyes of mantis shrimp inspired the development of a new type of organic photodetector small enough to fit on a smartphone but capable of hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging. The eyes of mantis shrimp, exceptionally good at capturing subtle gradations of color, inspired the designers of the new organic photodetector. As a result, the researchers [..]

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New Imaging Technique Aids In Water Decontamination | Syntec Optics

A group of scientists has developed a method that significantly improves the already ultrafast time resolution of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). It has the potential to lead to breakthroughs in the design of new materials and more efficient chemical processes. An X-ray free-electron laser device is a powerful combination of particle accelerator and laser technology [..]

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Sea Sponges Inspire Bacteria-Based Microlenses | Syntec Optics

Future head-mounted displays may automatically remove dust obstructing the wearer’s view using a self cleaning glass. If you wear glasses, you also have a cloth you use to repeatedly clean them, and you may still need to wipe over “Apple Glass.” However, a newly-revealed patent application shows that Apple is looking to keep the inside [..]

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High-Power Tunable Lasers Revolutionize Integrated Photonics | Syntec Optics

A particle or “walker” moves stochastically around a discrete space in a classical random walk. Quantum walks are the quantum analog, where the walker is also governed by quantum effects such as superposition, quantum interference, and entanglement. Quantum walks have attracted broad interest because of a growing range of applications in quantum information processing and [..]

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High Refractive Index Polymers For Eco-Friendly Optoelectronics | Syntec Optics

Soft robotics, wearable technologies, and biomedical applications all require stretchable electronics. However, the current methods of production have limited their potential. A group of researchers has created a material and fabrication process that can quickly make these devices stretchier, more durable, and ready for mass production. One of the most difficult challenges for stretchable electronics [..]

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Photographic Lenses Made From Tunable Metasurfaces | Syntec Optics

For centuries, polished glass has been at the heart of imaging systems. Lenses’ precise curvature allows them to focus light and produce sharp images, whether the object in view is a single cell, a book page, or a distant galaxy. To see clearly at all of these scales, the zoom lens must be physically moved [..]

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Autonomous Quantum Heat Engine Paves The Way For Miniaturization | Syntec Optics

Nonlinear optical properties, such as bulk photovoltaic effects, possess great potential in energy harvesting, photodetection, rectification, etc. To enable efficient light–current conversion, materials with strong photo-responsivity are highly desirable. Researchers predict that monolayer Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (JTMDs) in the 1T′ phase possess colossal nonlinear photoconductivity owing to their topological band mixing, strong inversion symmetry [..]

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3D Imaging & AI: A New Era In Body Composition Analysis | Syntec Optics

Calcification of the coronary arteries is a significant and independent predictor of adverse cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. Nonetheless, despite this knowledge and the fact that it can be assessed using any chest CT scan, quantification of coronary artery calcium (CAC) is not automatically integrated into the patient pathway because it requires radiological expertise, [..]

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Nanopixels Display For Virtual Reality | Syntec Optics

Apple has filed a patent application for their future VR head-mounted display, specifically a system allowing users to customize the headset’s fit on their face to be comfortable and snug. A head-mounted display is worn on the user’s head and engages the user’s face. However, by engaging the face, the head-mounted display may limit facial [..]

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Flexible Optical Fiber That Functions As A Temperature Sensor

Researchers created the first silicon chip compact 3D LiDAR imaging system capable of matching and exceeding the performance and accuracy of the most advanced mechanical systems currently in use. 3D LiDAR can provide accurate imaging and mapping for various applications; it serves as the “eyes” for self-driving cars and is used in facial recognition software [..]

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Cryo-Raman Microscopy: A New Era In Biological Imaging | Syntec Optics

Scientists could image SARS-CoV-2 using a helium ion microscope for the first time. In contrast to more traditional electron microscopy, helium ion microscopy does not require a thin metal coating on the samples. It allows a more detailed examination of interactions between coronaviruses and their host cells. The study demonstrates that the helium ion microscope [..]

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Diagnosing Bacterial Infections With Machine Learning | Syntec Optics

A group of scientists is working on an advanced X-ray imaging method that will aid in the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. The noninvasive technology employs dyes known as contrast agents specifically designed to recognize and bind to breast cancer cells at the molecular level. When imaged with a special, cutting-edge computed tomography (CT) [..]

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