The chip shortage is a long term problem for the photonics industry, according to those attending the Electro Optics roundtable on supply chain issues.
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Robert Bosch has set up a new business unit to commercialise quantum sensors
Innovative wafer-level optics technologies help solve a key challenge of connecting many fibers to silicon chips for datacom and telecom applications. (Image: Teramount)
The collaboration will leverage EVG's nanoimprint lithography technology, expertise and services with Teramount's PhotonicPlug technology
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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
Advances in optical metrology equipment are helping the semiconductor industry increase productivity and reduce downtime, finds Keely Portway
ASML uses light to print tiny patterns onto silicon during the mass production of semiconductor chips. credit: ASML
Heriot-Watt University and ASML are partnering to develop new optical metrology light sources for chip manufacturing
Scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley have created a blue light-emitting diode (LED).
Hamamatsu Photonics will construct a new factory building at its Shingai Factory in Hamamatsu City, Japan, in order to cope with increasing sales demand for opto-semiconductors, x-ray image sensors and x-ray flat panel sensors.
Martin van den Brink has been awarded the Imec Lifetime of Innovation Award 2019
Scientists have developed a laser processing technique capable of reducing defects in optical materials
3D printed Fresnel lens combining diffractive elements with refractive surfaces. Credit: Nanoscribe
Benjamin Skuse investigates some impressive additive methods for producing polymer and glass optics for imaging
Lee highlights to European Commissioner Thierry Breton that Europe should play a leading role in photonics
Carlos Lee on the European Photonics Industry Consortium’s latest advocacy efforts
Per Karlsson, CEO of NorthLab Photonics, discusses his career path, the key to effective management, and his advice for future entrepreneurs
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Superluminescent LED drivers can help us understand ocean turbulence, here’s how
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A look at the market for lidar and some of the systems, products and solutions available
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A look at the market for hyperspectral imaging and some of the products and solutions available
Freeform optics come into their own in applications such as illumination – for example, modern LED headlight designs (credit: i viewfinder/Shutterstock.com)
How optical designers can realise the benefits of using freeform optical elements from the R&D stage when designing for illumination applications
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A look at the current market for Neurophotonics and some of the products and solutions available
How solid-state light engines can meet the exact needs of many biotech and industrial applications
The space sector offers numerous oppurtunities for photonics technologies in the development and offering of satellite-based services. (Image: Shutterstock/Dima Zel)
The ongoing commercialisation of the space sector is creating numerous opportunities for photonics technologies, Matthew Dale learns
Preliminary testing of the quantum gravity gradiometer designed by Michael Holynski and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, which has now been shown to locate an underground tunnel with a positional accuracy of 20cm. Credit: Crown Copyright
Susan Curtis explores the new breed of quantum gravimeters finding their way onto the slopes of Mount Etna and into tunnels deep under Birmingham
Ams Osram’s multi-junction VCSELs are helping to improve automotive lidar. Credit: Ams Osram
Multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are likely to displace LEDs and edge-emitting lasers in sensing, finds Andy Extance
At this year’s EPIC AGM Matthew Dale learned that advocacy efforts need to be targeted to ensure an ideal future for the European photonics industry
At this year’s EPIC AGM Matthew Dale learned that increasing advocacy efforts is a must to ensure an ideal future for European photonics
