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01 Jun 16
Horiba hooks up with QuantIC on fluorescence imaging

Strathclyde's David Birch leading industry collaboration also involving the University of Edinburgh.

26 May 16
QCL-based system performs terahertz spectroscopy in seconds

MIT development based on chip-scale lasers and THz frequency comb could have applications in rapid detection of explosives.

25 May 16
Multiphoton microscopes to speed up disease diagnosis

£850,000 project yields two potential new inspection tools for diverse applications in medicine.

25 May 16
imec team builds hybrid perovskite/Si PV module

Partnership with Solliance consortium yields 20.2%-efficient stacked module and first semi-transparent devices.

25 May 16
Fraunhofers unite to reduce EUV wavelengths

Aachen and Jena centers generate 6.7nm output, in anticipation of producing "next-but-one generation" of microchips.

23 May 16
Dual ultrasound-laser scanner targets thyroid cancer

Hand-held probe expected to cut huge number and cost of unnecessary surgeries ‘dramatically’.

20 May 16
CSEM extends PV cleanroom and production lab

Swiss photovoltaics center working on cheaper high-performance silicon solar cells adds 1100 square meters of development space.

18 May 16
Huddersfield professor appointed to RAE/Renishaw Chair

Prof Xiangqian Jiang working on precise measurement tools for future factories and "Industry 4.0".

18 May 16
TeraView works with Cambridge to improve drug discovery

Terahertz specialist and university looking at body’s take-up of amorphous, low-solubility drugs.

17 May 16
European Commission backs €1BN quantum technologies 'flagship'

Digital Economy commissioner Günther Oettinger outlines plans for a major new innovation program at event in Delft.

10 May 16
Solliance hits record 10% efficiency with perovskite PV module

International team says results show significant "up-scalability" of their new thin film technology.

04 May 16
Laser-powered nano-engine promises robotic applications

Cambridge researchers say their ANTs (actuating nano-transducers) could one day treat living cells.

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