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Cutting-edge technologies and companies ranging from exciting and emerging startups to longtime industry stalwarts are among this year’s finalists for the SPIE Prism Awards. The 24 companies, across eight categories, will be honored during a 1 February 2023 gala evening at SPIE Photonics West. The annual event, which recognizes industrial innovation in photonics, will also be celebrating its 15th year. For consideration in the 2023 Prism Awards, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, received 76 applications from 19 countries.

Dynamic technology areas — encompassing augmented and virtual reality hardware, quantum, healthcare, and lasers — showcase the range and variety of this year's entries and...

Infrared Cameras Inc. (ICI), a developer of thermal cameras and infrared systems, formed a technology partnership with Ondas Holdings Inc., a provider of private wireless data and drone solutions through its wholly owned subsidiaries Ondas Networks Inc. and American Robotics Inc. Through the partnership, combined with ICI’s optical gas imaging and thermal sensors, American Robotics’ autonomous Scout System drone will be equipped with the technology needed to automate inspection of oil and gas assets and identification of methane leaks.

According to Reese Mozer, co-founder and CEO of American Robotics, the partnership allows American Robotics to expand its product offerings with features tailored for the oil and gas...

Tuesday, November 15th 2022 Morning Session: 11am EST|8am PST|4pm GMT|5pm CET Afternoon Session: 2pm EST|11am PST|7pm GMT|8pm CET Analyzing oligos? Join us to learn about novel, automated, and integrated software to support the analysis of the CQAs of oligos using LC–HRAM MS. Purity and sequencing data will be presented for a multitude of oligos including antisense, aptamer, and long synthetic samples.

To cool buildings more efficiently, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Kyung Hee University in South Korea developed a high-performance, transparent radiative cooler (TRC) using quantum annealing (QA) combined with artificial intelligence. The transparent window coating that the researchers developed minimized optical heating by allowing visible light to pass through, and by reflecting the heat from ultraviolet (UV) and near-infrared (NIR) sunlight.

Transparent radiative coolers can be used as window materials to reduce cooling energy needs for buildings and automobiles, which may contribute significantly to addressing climate change challenges. Since light in the UV and NIR wavelengths accounts for about 50% of the...

The fast identification of tocopherols is important for various applications including free radical scavenging for human health and food stuff preservation.

This application note describes the automation of the isolation of 10 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) from tap water prior to their analysis by LC–MS.

This study demonstrates the determination of trace anions in simulated borated waters containing lithium using a borate eluent and a large-volume direct injection.

This year’s Heinrich Wieland Prize recognized Harvard University professor Xiaowei Zhuang for her lab’s development of stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), a technology that continues to bear fruit in the life sciences. Researchers have been using the superresolution method for more than 15 years, along with other techniques that break the Abbe limit, to improve their understanding of cellular functioning and interactions. Because researchers using STORM in the lab are capturing structural features at a molecular level that can provide early warning signs of disease, the technology shows great promise to become an effective diagnostic tool for clinicians.

Christoph Boehringer, chairman of the executive...

BioPhotonics spoke with Kevin Zhou, a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Duke University, who received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Schmidt Science Fellowship. Zhou and his colleagues recently published a paper (www.doi.org/10.1364/optica.454860) about a new computational 3D microscopy method — called 3D optical coherence refraction tomography (OCRT) — that enhances the resolution and contrast provided by OCT over a 3D field of view. The researchers envision that this technique will be useful for in vivo imaging of the eye or skin, and they are working to miniaturize the imaging system and interpret the data using machine...