With a silicone rubber "stick-on" sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a micro-sized package. The ...

Let’s say you want to see whether conditions on the planet Mars are ripe for life. Or maybe you’d like to find individual cells in a patient’s bloodstream to see how diseases cause damage. Or perhaps ...

In the Environmental Optics Laboratory (EOL) we perform research to reduce uncertainties by developing new measurement and analytical methods. Several graduate and undergraduate students participate ...

HOUGHTON -- Just as open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, open-source designs and 3D printing are driving ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Materion Barr Precision Optics & Thin Film Coatings, a Materion Corporation (NYSE:MTRN) business, announces its new Large Area Optics (LAO) laboratory is now fully ...

The Advanced Optics Lab is designed to prepare students for optics research at the level of the Ph.D. Theoretical concepts are taken from the optics gradiuate core classes, however it is not necessary ...

Physics major Robyn Schwartz is getting a jump start on her senior capstone project this summer, and it’s leading her deeper into the quantum world, the realm of molecules, atoms and subatomic ...