16A lot of engineers, scientists, builders, makers, and hackers got their start as children with LEGO. Putting those bricks together, whether following the instructions or not, really brings out the ...

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 ...

Fiber optic SERS probes, called “optrodes,” combine spectroscopy with the flexibility and versatility of fiber optic cables.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NTT Research, the Silicon Valley-based research division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, announced Dr. Tetsuomi Sogawa as ...

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 ...

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 ...