Canadian-US partnership driving organic solar cell performance beyond 10%.

Government call for novel optical and IR sensing proposals for defense applications.

Defense contractor says that spectral beam combining delivers 'weapons grade' beam.

Achieves high efficiency of 15.6% with potential for low-temperature, bulk manufacture.

Adelaide-based program brings nanotechnology and photonics together to move beyond bioimaging techniques.

IMEC-led work is among more than a dozen optics-related projects to receive European Research Council backing.

Max Planck group leads German collaboration to profile femtosecond waveforms; reveals reaction processes.

Scottish-led “Metrocomb” project to develop frequency-comb fs lasers to help find smaller planets and detect real time biological threats.

Allows accurate picking of randomly-oriented components, cuts costs.

University of Valenica develops "high efficiency" solar cell from safe, abundant raw materials.

Potential applications in pharmaceuticals, security and electronics will be put to the test in £3.6 million funding round.

Combination of optical tweezers and holography simplifies and speeds up single cell observations.