Manufacture to be "more efficient, lower cost" from greater knowledge of electronic processes.

First UK Fraunhofer, focusing on solid state lasers, based at Strathclyde University.

Alwyn Seeds and Huiyun Liu from University College London aim to develop high-efficiency devices on cheap silicon substrates.

To boost competitiveness of local tech firms; SMEs “to benefit from innovations in optics”.

Photonex conference hears of new photonics tools for life science applications.

Boeing subsidiary hits 37.8% with multijunction cell design.

A new cluster tool at the Fraunhofer COMEDD in Dresden supports applications in displays, sensors and medicine.

US Navy wants airborne system to protect personnel moving between ship and shore.

Scanning laser optical tomography could be used to generate high-resolution images of entire organs.

Massive arrays of fiber lasers could be the driving force behind next-generation particle accelerators. Other benefits expected to be in nuclear waste remediation and medicine.

International research team led by ICFO (UPC, Catalunya), MIT and Max Planck hail graphene photo-conversion.

Robot-assisted surgery is a boon for clinicians and patients, but incorporation of bioimaging is at an early stage.