With openUC2, optical instruments are created in no time at all. Credit: Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen (STIFT)
A new set of optics teaching kits will be used in schools and student research centres in Thuringian, Germany this academic year
Re-thinking how we teach and engage children in school may boost interest in optics and engineering among young people, finds Jessica Rowbury
The programme aims to inspire more than 3,500 local students aged 13-18 with first-hand experiences of engineering. (Image: Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff)
The programme aims to inspire more than 3,500 local students, providing first-hand experiences of engineering, and awarding financial support to pursue further education
Image: KLA
School students in the Santa Clara Unified School District are being given an introduction to microscopy and silicon chip production in a programme created with the semiconductor manufacturer KLA
Following the success of the eighth VUB Science Show on photonics in Brussels, Belgium, a group of PhD researchers from VUB's B-Phot have been invited by UNESCO to perform at the kick-off of the International Day of Light
Rob Morris, marketing director, Ocean Optics, says that science, education & entrepreneurship initiatives are needed to see growth in spectroscopy and photonics
Organoid imaged with Andor’s desktop confocal microscope system, the BC43. Credit: Andor
As microscopes become ever more powerful, a growing band of businesses are racing to make the latest technologies more accessible and more affordable, reports Rebecca Pool
Illustration of a three-dimensional crystal with various types of confining centres. (a) Crystal with four confining centres, each trapping waves (yellow) in all three dimensions simultaneously. (b) Crystal with a linear confining centre where waves can propagate in one dimension, analogous to an optical fibre. (c) Crystal with a planar confining centre where waves can propagate in two dimensions, analogous to a 2D electron gas. (Image: Vos et al.)
Newly discovered fundamental rules have been embedded into software to dramatically optimise the design of photonic integrated circuits
