Non-symmetrical freeform optics such as off-axis mirrors or parabolas create unique thin-film coating challenges. AccuCoat inc offers you our proven process from custom design to prototype, through ...

SANTA ROSA — Sometimes one company’s castoffs become another’s golden opportunity. MAC Thin Films, a startup forged out of technology formerly owned by JDSU’s Santa Rosa unit, makes antireflective and ...

At 4 degrees Kelvin, most electro-optic materials falter. Nanoelectronics R&D center imec has now successfully engineered thin-film strontium titanate (SrTiO ₃) that delivers record electro-optic ...

Advanced materials supplier Materion Corp. of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Optics Balzers AG, a maker of thin film optical coatings, in a deal valued ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

Finnish company ICS has developed a foil which it claims can significantly increase the yield of solar panels, when applied to the edges of a PV module. Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE has confirmed that the ...

Researchers developed a graphene-based transparent film with light-sensitive properties, opening new possibilities in lasers, optics, displays, and AI photonic devices. Researchers at Electronics and ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cologne, Hasselt University (Belgium) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland) has succeeded in using the quantum mechanical principle of strong ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cologne, Hasselt University (Belgium) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland) has succeeded in using the quantum mechanical principle of strong ...

BorisFX has gone into partnership with Marco Paolini’s Digital Film Tools in the update and rebranding of DFT for Photos as Boris FX Optics. Digital Film Tools has long been a player in the VFX ...