Variable Emittance Materials: Adaptive Thermal Control for Spacecraft
July 29, 2025
Variable Emittance Materials offer lightweight, adaptive thermal control for spacecraft, reducing mass and power needs vs. traditional methods.
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Hyperspectral Imaging Characterizes Spectral Properties of Tattoo Dyes for Optimized Laser Removal
July 7, 2025
New research from the Medical University of Silesia is showing how hyperspectral imaging can help make laser tattoo removal more precise and effective—by analyzing the optical properties of tattoo dyes and guiding wavelength selection.
Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis with Hyperspectral Microscopy and Machine Learning
May 19, 2025
Researchers at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine use hyperspectral microscopy and machine learning to improve early detection of oral cancer, enabling precise identification of cancer stages through spectral analysis of tissue. This breakthrough enhances diagnostic accuracy and reduces subjectivity in OSCC assessments.
Portable Solar Reflectance Measurements for Cool Roofing and Paving Materials
February 19, 2025
Data comparison of the 410-Solar portable reflectometer vs. the Agilent Cary 5000 lab reflectometer for solar reflectance of roofing materials and coatings.
Thermo-Optical Challenges of Lunar and Martian Dust for Spacecraft Materials
November 1, 2024
Space exploration comes with boundless fears and unknowns – malfunctions that could take lives or leave astronauts stranded in space. Who would guess that something as familiar as dust would cause dangerous risks such as overheating spacecraft? Well, that’s exactly what has happened. During several Apollo missions, deposits of lunar dust accumulated on the battery […]
Revolutionizing Optical Responses: Reflectance Measurements for Metasurface Wafer Technology
August 1, 2024
As we push the envelope to devise creative solutions to global problems, researchers have concentrated their efforts on the emerging field of metasurfaces. A metasurface is an engineered two-dimensional material designed to manipulate electromagnetic waves, such as light, in ways that are not possible with natural materials. These surfaces consist of arrays of subwavelength structures, […]
Precision Agriculture and Hyperspectral Sensors: Monitoring Against Drought, Disease, and Nutrient Stress
July 9, 2024
Crop monitoring for nutrients, water-stress, disease, insect attack and overall plant health is a vital aspect of successful agricultural operations. Traditionally this has been carried out by visual examination of crops on the ground or sometimes from the air. However these methods are limited by the ability of the human eye to discriminate between healthy […]
Hyperspectral Imaging in Art Conservation
February 8, 2022
The need to conserve art has a long history, back to the time when people first realized that the art objects they treasured had begun to deteriorate. In the nineteenth century science and art first began to meet, with scientists of that time looking for methods to preserve valuable works of art. Of course today […]
Surface Optics Partners with 4Walls International to Provide SWIR Hyperspectral Data for the Border Impact Bond
June 15, 2021
The non-profit organization 4Walls International in conjuncture with southern California researchers, is working with local municipalities in leading the way on attempts to clean up the US-Mexico bordered Tijuana River Estuary in a project known as the Border Impact Bond. The problem as stated by 4Walls International: Single-use plastics, foam, tires and sediment flow across the […]
Marine Biological Institute Captures High-Speed Octopus, Cuttlefish Camouflage with 16-Band Multispectral Video Camera
April 15, 2018
Roger Hanlon is a Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Hanlon’s laboratory studies the camouflage phenomena of cephalopods, which includes squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. Hanlon’s lab has published over 200 scientific papers on cephalopods and their […]