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SENSIMED Triggerfish Contact Lens to Be Presented in Ocular Nanotechnology Poster Sessions at ARVO 2013

Sensimed AG, announced today that 10 scientific publications reporting outcomes of clinical studies investigating the use of SENSIMED Triggerfish® will be presented at ARVO 2013. The company developed the SENSIMED Triggerfish®, a revolutionary contact lens for the continuous recording of the 24-hour intraocular pressure (IOP) pattern to facilitate the management of glaucoma.

25 Apr 2013

Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication 2013 Conference to Take Place in May

Registration is open for the 57th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), which brings together engineers and scientists from industries all over the world to discuss recent progress and future trends in nanofabrication, including nanoimprint and molecular self-assembly.

24 Apr 2013

KMLabs’s Ultrafast Amplifier for Nanoscience Applications Wins CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

The CLEO: 2013 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World today announced KMLabs (Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories) as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

24 Apr 2013

Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Helps Detect Early Presence of Ovarian Cancer

Pioneering biophotonics technology developed at Northwestern University is the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer in humans by examining cells easily brushed from the neighboring cervix or uterus, not the ovaries themselves.

23 Apr 2013

DSS 2013: NP Photonics to Debut Mid-Infrared Transport Fiber

NP Photonics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and specialty optical fiber, today announced that it will introduce a mid-infrared (IR) transport fiber at the Defense, Security, and Sensing (DSS) 2013 exhibition from April 30 to May 2, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland.

23 Apr 2013

New Nanoscale Device Converts Optical Signal into Waves That Travel along a Metal Surface

A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface. Significantly, the device can recognize specific kinds of polarized light and accordingly send the signal in one direction or another.

23 Apr 2013

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit, it posits that the ultimate conversion efficiency can never exceed 34 percent for a single optimized semiconductor junction.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 19 Apr 2013

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

SENSIMED Triggerfish Contact Lens to Be Presented in Ocular Nanotechnology Poster Sessions at ARVO 2013

Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication 2013 Conference to Take Place in May

KMLabs’s Ultrafast Amplifier for Nanoscience Applications Wins CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy Helps Detect Early Presence of Ovarian Cancer

DSS 2013: NP Photonics to Debut Mid-Infrared Transport Fiber

New Nanoscale Device Converts Optical Signal into Waves That Travel along a Metal Surface

Novel Inexpensive Coating Boosts Solar-Cell Efficiency

Enhanced NanoRam Handheld Raman Spectrometer Launched by B&W Tek

Innovative Solar Panel Made of Engineered Nanophotonic Materials Cools Buildings in Sunlight

Global Nanophotonic Devices Market Forecast to Grow at 35.8% CAGR over the Period 2012-2016

Laser-Induced Graphene for Printable and Biomedical Applications

Mapping Nanomaterial Atomic Structure Without Beam Damage

Enhanced Antibacterial Polylactic Acid-Curcumin Nanofibers for Wound Dressings

Sustainable Hydrogen and Chemical Synthesis via Novel Electrocatalyst

Co-Solvent-Driven Laser Assembly of Gold Nanorods

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

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