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Nitrogen Vacancy Centers: Robust Magnetic Field Sensors
Nitrogen Vacancy Centers: Robust Magnetic Field Sensors
Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond are an exciting platform to build very accurate sensors. These vacancy centers provide very precise energy levels that can be influenced and controlled by various ...
Laser Doppler Flowmetry: Measuring Blood Flow with Light
Laser Doppler Flowmetry: Measuring Blood Flow with Light
In 1842, Johann Doppler delivered his paper on Doppler effect to Royal Bohemian Society. In his paper “On the Colored Light of Double Stars and Some Other Heavenly Bodies”, he arrived at the ...
Wearable Photonics: A Further Representation of Technology in Everyday Life
Wearable Photonics: A Further Representation of Technology in Everyday Life
New Changes in the Hands of the Everyday Individual: Photonics in Wearable Technology With rapid advancements in common devices like phones and watches, technology has become more prominent in everyday ...
Lanthanide Nanoparticles for Medical Imaging and Therapy
Lanthanide Nanoparticles for Medical Imaging and Therapy
Non-linear techniques in photonics have opened up new avenues for sensing and manipulating materials. In the 1960s, non-linear techniques were used to discover multiphoton absorption processes in ...
A Novel Handheld Viscosity Sensor for Medical and Industrial Applications
A Novel Handheld Viscosity Sensor for Medical and Industrial Applications
A research team at Keio University in Japan devised a novel handheld viscosity sensor capable of quick, non-contact in situ measurements. Viscosity is a fundamental property for liquid analysis in a wide ...
Dental Caries Diagnosis Using Fluorescence Imaging Techniques
Dental Caries Diagnosis Using Fluorescence Imaging Techniques
A research team from the Military Technical College and from Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt have developed a fluorescence hyper-spectral imaging system which can be employed for diagnosis and detection ...
Laser Cooling: A Future for Cryogenics Without Liquid Coolants
Laser Cooling: A Future for Cryogenics Without Liquid Coolants
Low temperature physics has helped us produce exotic quantum materials such as superconductors. This usually requires cryogenic fluids such as liquid nitrogen and helium for operation. Recently cooling ...
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon photonics is the technology of using optical processing components made of silicon itself, rather than other materials. Electronic interconnects with copper contribute to high power consumption and ...
Two-Photon Polymerization of Cellular Scaffolds
Two-Photon Polymerization of Cellular Scaffolds
In many tissue engineering experiments, a form of support is required to promote cell growth. Three dimensional scaffolds provide an artificial extracellular matrix, attachment sites for cells, support for ...
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Advanced Implantable Sensor
Neural Imaging with Visible Light: Advanced Implantable Sensor
Previously, we discussed a technique for producing high resolution maps of neural activity in the brain called Optical Recording of Intrinsic Signal, or ORIS.  Conventional methods for performing ORIS ...