Hi Tech & Innovation
A Seattle-based company is talking up a storm about solid state lidar powered by liquid crystal metasurface (LCM) technology. The company CTO is proclaiming the LCM chip as "the holy grail of LiDAR."
Engineering
Two School of Engineering and Applied Science students designed a 3-D-printed system for optical mapping, a leading tool in cardiac electrophysiology used to study arrhythmia mechanisms. The system can be implemented for ...
Mar 15, 2019
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Engineering
High-purity semiconductor crystals are required for power electronics in electric cars or in photovoltaics. When such crystals reach a diameter of 2 inches, they become relevant for industrial applications.
Feb 9, 2024
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Software
A new artificial intelligence (AI) application developed by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Mainz University of Applied Sciences is now able to decipher ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Internet
In wireless communication, G stands for "generation" as in 4G, 5G, 6G. When it comes to data rate in optical communications though, "G" stands for gigabits per second (Gbps), and the progression doubles, as in 100G, 200G, ...
Jun 14, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Computing using light can potentially provide lower latency and reduced power consumption, benefiting from the parallelism that optical systems have. For example, a single optical processor can execute many distinct computational ...
Jan 10, 2023
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Engineering
People use their eyes and ears to pick up on traffic situations involving potential hazards. For self-driving vehicles to do the same thing, they need a whole host of sensors. As the number of sensors they contain increases, ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Automotive
A Greenpeace video of me plugging a trackless tram that went viral with four million hits has caused a few eyebrows to be raised over whether I think light rail is dead. So let me be clear: light rail remains the gold-standard ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Ten years ago, anyone who wanted the latest and best smartphone was excited about the Nokia N95. Launched at the Nokia Open Studio in September 2006, it was trumpeted as the all-in-one multimedia computer and went on to achieve ...
Jan 9, 2017
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, Xuezhi Zhang, Boyue Yang, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Xiaojun Fan, Zhaozhu Liu, Min Peng, Guanlong Chen and Tiegen Liu from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China discuss a side-polished ...
Nov 5, 2021
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