Janice L Robertson with Rahul Chadda (middle), Kacey Mersch (right), and the team's TIRF microscope Progress in understanding the lipid bilayer – an ingenious two-molecule thick oily barrier that ...

An automated method for measuring the dynamic deformation of a micromirror surface across its full deflection range at its resonance frequency was recently reported by DHM users at Silicon Austria ...

Everybody understands that mask costs are part of the problem in SoC design. Specifically, mask costs put a very high floor under the minimum volume for which you can afford to create a derivative ...

A new optical measuring device offers a cheaper, quicker alternative to confocal microscopy. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) have developed a prototype optical ...

Silicon micromirrors can guide laser beams at extremely high speeds, allowing operators to dose heat input to workpieces with absolute precision. But to date they have not been robust enough to be ...

The Dresden Research Institute has developed a CMOS-integrated micromirror array in which each mirror can be individually deflected around two tilting axes (right). There are 512 x 320 individually ...

The unusual outer shell of a South American beetle, which can control both the polarization and wavelength of reflected light, could lead to a new breed of tunable micromirrors. A South American ...

Scientists have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. They labeled this new field of optical technology 'Parylene photonics.' Carnegie Mellon ...

Five years ago, Eric Aguilar was fed up. He had worked on lidar and other sensors for years at Tesla and Google X, but the technology always seemed too expensive and, more importantly, unreliable. He ...