Solliance, Eindhoven University of Technology open high-precision solar test facility on Philips campus.

Photo-conversion efficiency and output improved as upconverters make infrared radiation count.

Paper-based tests for disease biomarkers could transform patient diagnostics.

Photonex conference hears of progress in performance – and application of – high power diode lasers.

Refined recipe for high-efficiency solar cells, using sodium and potassium doping, published in Nature Materials.

TU Vienna researchers develop symmetrical cascade laser to boost power. Applications in identifying molecular "fingerprints".

Universities of Aston and Novosibirsk establish Russian research pole for fiber-optics, lasers and nonlinear photonics.

Nationwide initiative to develop cutting-edge imaging technologies for research.

University of Stuttgart will lead two international consortia with distinct objectives.

ASDEC, a partnership between the University of Leicester and Polytec, to offer new robot-mounted R&D facilities for automotive and engineering systems designers.

Terahertz device produced by University of Sydney team could lead to new microscopes 'within two or three years'.

UK Institute of Railway Research project demos "smart", modular, all-steel tracks.