Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications.

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

with an engineer booting up chips on test boards to see if they are running properly and another peering through a microscope with a soldering iron in his hand, delicately adjusting tiny chip ...

And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look ... delivers with this up close and personal look at the chip formation process. We’ve got to hand it to [Zach] with ...

as this home-brew laser scanning microscope demonstrates. This one comes to us by way of [GaudiLabs], a Swiss outfit devoted to open-source lab equipment that enables citizen science; we saw their ...

Although this has not prevented them from becoming one of the most ubiquitous pieces of lab equipment ... of Lausanne have demonstrated an on-chip microscope based on optofluidics.

This pioneering mid-infrared laser chip integrates nonlinear photonics, enabling stable picosecond pulse generation for ...