POSTS TAGGED AS photonics

A Wearable for Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Rockley Photonics plows ahead in developing noninvasive glucose sensor
“That approach integrates Rockley’s [Rockley Photonics, Pasadena, CA] short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy [MORE]

Internet Transmission Speed Record Reset

Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet’s traffic per second
From engineers in Denmark and Sweden: “The speed record for data transmission [MORE]

Dual-Axis Optical Coherence Tomography

DA-OCT system
“Here, we [biomedical engineers at Duke University] present a novel implementation of dual-axis optical coherence tomography (DA-OCT) that offers [MORE]

Advanced CT Imaging

Siemens NAEOTOM Alpha diagnostic imaging device
“The device [called Siemens NAEOTOM Alpha] uses the emerging CT technology of photon-counting detectors which [MORE]

Light Sheet Fluorescent Brain Imaging

Implantable photonic neural probes for light sheet brain imaging
“We [an international collaboration of photonic scientists] develop implantable photonic neural probes [MORE]

Miniaturization in Ultrasound Imaging

Smallest ultrasound detector
Engineers at the German Research Center for Environmental Health and the Technical University of Munich have developed an [MORE]

Super Accurate Photonic Biosensors

Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensing
Biophysicists at New York University, who pioneered the concept of “Whispering Gallery Mode” [WGM] of silicon bead [MORE]

Making Gold Nanoparticles that Behave as One

Ultramonodisperse Gold Nanorods that Behave as Clones
Quoting directly: “A special laser system is able to induce billions of gold nanoparticles [MORE]

Device Chip Developments

IMEC Silicon Neuroprobe
This piece is an overview of silicon based devices that are made on the same scale as cells [MORE]

Monitoring Blood Coagulation Continuously During Surgery

Blood Cells
During a heart operation, surgeons need to know if the patient’s blood is coagulating too quickly—potentially causing clots. To [MORE]

SWAN Lithography for Making Micro and Nano Structures

Creating Micro- And Nanostructures On 3-D Materials
“Spun-Wrapped Aligned Nanofiber” is the name that engineers at Virginia Tech have applied to [MORE]

Photonics Device for Diagnosing Thyroid Cancer

A European consortium has developed, and is testing, a new device for diagnosing thyroid nodules which would indicate whether they [MORE]

Silicon Photonics and Optical MEMS

Silicon Photonics
Engineers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (“A*STAR) are working on environmental microsensors that rely on photonics [MORE]

Photonic PCR

Quoting directly: “UC Berkeley bioengineers have developed a technology that can make millions of copies of a single gene in [MORE]