A new lens-free imaging system uses software to see finer details from farther away than optical systems ever could before.

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch made of very thin semiconductor ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

For electrical engineers working in almost any part of the wired or wireless spectrum, the spectrum analyzer is a critical test and measurement tool. For optical engineering, the equivalent tool is ...

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a ...

Light is quietly becoming the new language of brain technology. Instead of thick wires and skull-penetrating electrodes, a new generation of implants uses tiny LEDs and optical sensors to send ...

Maxim Integrated introduces it’s new MAXREFDES27# IO-Link subsystem reference design that lets operators tune and calibrate an optical proximity sensor with excellent accuracy, up to 14 bit resolution ...

3D-micro-printed polymer whispering-gallery-mode microlaser sensors pave the way to cost-effective lab-on-a-chip medical diagnostics. (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a 3D micro-printed ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jie Huang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Bohong Zhang, Missouri ...