Janice L Robertson with Rahul Chadda (middle), Kacey Mersch (right), and the team's TIRF microscope Progress in understanding the lipid bilayer – an ingenious two-molecule thick oily barrier that ...

Micromirrors are micrometer-scale mirrors that are widely used in many applications, mainly in optical-fiber telecommunications, optical scanners, and optical instrumentation. Micromirrors can be ...

An automated method for measuring the dynamic deformation of a micromirror surface across its full deflection range at its resonance frequency was recently reported by DHM users at Silicon Austria ...

The start-up Gixel is taking a new approach to building glasses for augmented reality (AR). Instead of further developing existing display technologies such as birdbath optics and waveguides, Gixel ...

Everybody understands that mask costs are part of the problem in SoC design. Specifically, mask costs put a very high floor under the minimum volume for which you can afford to create a derivative ...

The Dresden Research Institute has developed a CMOS-integrated micromirror array in which each mirror can be individually deflected around two tilting axes (right). There are 512 x 320 individually ...

The unusual outer shell of a South American beetle, which can control both the polarization and wavelength of reflected light, could lead to a new breed of tunable micromirrors. A South American ...

A new optical measuring device offers a cheaper, quicker alternative to confocal microscopy. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) have developed a prototype optical ...

Scientists have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. They labeled this new field of optical technology 'Parylene photonics.' Carnegie Mellon ...

Today you may check your clothes in the mirror. Tomorrow you could be checking the mirrors on your clothes. MIT researchers have created high-performance mirrors in the shape of hairlike flexible ...