Researchers have developed an innovative and versatile system designed for a new generation of short-pulse lasers. Lasers ...

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Tests confirm graphene-based energy harvesters can use ambient energy to run ultra-low power sensors — the first hurdle in developing autonomous sensor systems.

A team of researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, has developed a sensor that can identify sodium nitrite (NaNO 2) in various beverages, ...

The growing availability of low-cost air quality sensors is helping people across the world track air pollution. Headway The growing availability of low-cost air ...

In conventional lasers, mirrors are essential to bounce light back and forth, stimulating coherent emission from excited atoms or molecules, and thus light amplification.

Italian aerospace and defense giant Leonardo is expanding its presence in metro Tucson with a new laser manufacturing plant that will add 170 jobs to its local payroll. Leonardo Electronics US Inc., a ...

An array of graphene-silicon solar cells provides enough power to continuously supply small devices unconnected from the ...