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A LiDAR device the Size of a Finger now available

A LiDAR device the size of a finger now available
Credit: Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)

A nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and nanoengineering.

In this paper, a POSTECH research team (led by Professor Junsuk Rho of the departments of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Inki Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. candidate Jaehyuck Jang of the Department of Chemical Engineering) in cooperation with the French National Science Institute (CNRS-CRHEA) focused on the LiDAR device developed through studying the metamaterials based ultralight nanophotonics.

In addition, the paper introduces core nan...

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Artificial Intelligence makes great Microscopes better than ever

Green streaks shoot off of a blue, purple and pink bulbous shape against a dark background of circles and curvy lines.
A representation of a neural network provides a backdrop to a fish larva’s beating heart. Illustration credit: Tobias Wüstefeld.

Machine learning helps some of the best microscopes to see better, work faster, and process more data. Collaboration between deep learning experts and microscopy experts leads to an significantly improved data-intensive light-field microscopy method by using AI and ground-truthing it with light-sheet microscopy. The result is the power of light-field microscopy available to biologists in near real time vs. days or weeks, AND the expansion of biologists’ ability to use this microscopy for many things more things requiring the most detailed observation.

To observe the swift neuronal signals in a fish brain, scientists have started to use a technique calle...

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Physicists find a novel way to Switch Antiferromagnetism On and Off

antiferromagnetism device
In turning antiferromagnetism on and off, MIT physicists may have found a route towards faster, denser, and more secure memory devices.
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The findings could lead to faster, more secure memory storage, in the form of antiferromagnetic bits. When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of “bits” to represent and encode that image. Most transistors today are made from silicon, an element that scientists have managed to switch at ever-smaller scales, enabling billions of bits, and therefore large libraries of images and other files, to be packed onto a single memory chip.

But growing demand for data, and the means to store them, is driving scientists to search beyond...

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Will your Future Clothes be Made of Algae?

A mini T-shirt demonstrates the photosynthetic living materials created in the lab of Rochester biology professor Anne S. Meyer using 3D printers and a new bioink technique. (University of Rochester photo)

For the first time, an international team of researchers from the University of Rochester and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used 3D printers and a novel bioprinting technique to print algae into living, photosynthetic materials that are tough and resilient. The material has a variety of applications in the energy, medical, and fashion sectors. The research is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

“Three-dimensional printing is a powerful technology for fabrication of living functional materials that have a huge potential in a wide range of env...

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