3D printing-based diffractive optical element fabrication
Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs) are used to shape the wavefront of incident light in complex patterns, and are ubiquitous across optical applications, ranging from laser processing through lithography to communication and imaging. Example applications include beam splitters, beam shapers, optical...
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A miniature electron spin resonance probehead for transcutaneous oxygen monitoring
Oxygen concentration in the skin (denoted as transcutaneous oxygen - TcpO2) has a significant diagnostic and therapeutic importance in many clinical situations. It is being used for monitoring the condition and assessment of healing potential of chronic wounds, diabetic feet,...
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Chemistry & Materials|Electro-Optics & Quantum|Medical Devices & Digital Health
A novel memory structure in the CPU
SRAM is the commonly used memory technology in CPU. The low density and high static power limit the amount of data that can be stored in buffers, register files, and caches, just to name a few. This calls for new...
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Acoustic fiber sensors based on ultra-low noise opto-electronic oscillator
Optical acoustic interferometric fiber sensors are based on measuring the phase change in an optical wave that propagates through a fiber due to a strain induced by the acoustic signal. This phase change is measured by using an optical interferometry...
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All-angle electromagnetically transparent surfaces
Reflection off antenna radomes may distort the radiation pattern and reduce gain or bandwidth. Optical refraction may deform wavefronts of light and produce aberrant images. Remarkably, both wave reflection and refraction are inherently spatially dispersive, namely, they depend on the...
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Analyzing light by three-photon counting
Photon counting is the key enabler in quantum optics for variety of quantum information applications. It also plays an important role in classical applications involving extremely low light intensities in a wide range of fields including biological imaging and optical...
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Biomarker monitoring for early treatment
BiomarkerFlow is a diagnostic platform that enables rapid, multiplexed detection of biomarkers through advanced computational microscopy and microfluidics. It provides a breakthrough alternative to conventional immunoassays, such as ELISA and ECLIA, by offering faster, more scalable, and cost-effective analysis with...
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Cell fusion or destruction using nanoparticles and laser
The present technology involves the use of nanoparticles and laser light to manipulate selected cells for cancer therapy, tissue regeneration and drug production. The invention describes a method for specific cell manipulation. Gold nanoparticles are coated by a layer of...
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Charge-discharge electro-optical microring modulator
Silicon Integrated electro-optical (EO) modulators are essential for insertion the information into the optical channel in high-speed optical communication technology. Further applications are optical sensors and guiding high frequency microwave signals by optical wave carriers. Device footprint, driven voltage, modulation...
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Electro-Optics & Quantum
CMOS-SiPM array for ToF measurements
Researcher:
Prof. Emeritus Yael Nemirovsky
Ultra-sensitive light detection systems are increasingly being employed in applications such as mobile range finding, automotive ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), gesture recognition, 3D mapping, security, etc. There is an increasing need for "Super-Camera" which is capable of producing two-dimensional and...
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Coded aperture ultrasound detector
Optoacoustic tomography (OAT) offers the unique capability to image optical contrast deep in the tissue. While OAT can produce very detailed images of blood vessels and lipid deposition, making it a potential solution to many clinical challenges, it requires 1000’s...
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Detecting far objects using a 3D optic system
Today, radar or stereoscopic systems are used when distance estimation is required. Radar systems require expensive equipment. Methods that are based on triangulation require 2 cameras. As the object distance increases, the distance between the cameras has to increase. In...
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Detection and characterization of diffuse radiation sources
A standard method for evaluating the abundances of chemical species in stellar atmospheres is the COG. Assuming a species concentration fixed with depth, the theory of the COG evaluates the equivalent width of a spectral line as a function of...
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Detection of single and multi-center chiral molecules
Identifying chirality of molecules especially with multiple chiral centers is crucial to the pharmaceutical industry as chirality affect activity, efficacy and even pose safety issues. Currently the molecules chirality identification methods rely on weak signals and requires expensive equipment. Multiple...
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Electro-Optics & Quantum|FoodTech & Biotechnology
Detection of x-ray and gamma-ray photons
Detection of high energy photons (x-rays and gamma rays) is of great importance for applications in medical radiography, security inspection, radiation exposure monitoring, and high energy physics. Scintillation, which is the ability of certain materials to absorb high-energy (KeV scale)...
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Edge-state based actuation in ferroelectric field effect transistors
One of the holy grails for the microelectronic industry is to continue device miniaturization in order to increase the operation speed of the device (clock speed) and to pack more devices to reduce the fabrication cost. Therefore, many efforts are...
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Fluidic Shaping of ocular lenses
Researcher:
Prof. Moran Bercovici
Various methods are being used for lenses fabrication, however these are effective usually for large-scale fabrication, where the cost and time spent on the initial mold is justified. Another method is depositing a finite volume of a liquid (e.g. polymer...
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Chemistry & Materials|Electro-Optics & Quantum
Fundamental component of modern hardware security
Emerging nanoelectronic memristive technologies promise to provide an alternative to the ubiquitous CMOS technology. CMOS compatibility, along with a combination of properties such as non-linearity, non-volatility and sensitivity to process variations, make this technology appealing for embedded security applications. The...
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Current gamma radiation detectors are large items. Detection of source direction is very inaccurate or requires long scanning process. Wise positioning of small and sensitive detectors allows quick detection of radiation source with high accuracy. Advantages Advantages Quick detection High...
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Generating an ideal light source
In order to improve resolution in microscopy the light source should be both very bright and homogeneous. Inhomogeneity might cause artifacts that be conceived as actual details of the image. In order to avoid such artifacts there is a need...
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Highly sensitive (single photon) detector for IR wavelengths
Single photon detection at IR range is applicable mostly to short wavelength (NIR) and has low quantum efficiency. Using the principle of Quantum Cascade Detectors (QCD) in their known design “wastes” photons. However, electrically connecting the stages in parallel, while...
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MWIR technology can be used for fluorescent marking of objects such as money bills, military equipment, landing strips etc. However, it is based on bulk toxic materials and the devices based on them are noisy and require harsh and hazardous...
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Low dimensional perovskites nanostructures
Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals have shown high photoluminescence quantum yields, even without growing inorganic shells that protect their surfaces from deleterious surface traps. These observations present an important departure from traditional semiconductor nanocrystals that require passivating surface defects to achieve...
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Low temperature self-assembled nanostructures
Antireflective coatings are critical to many optical systems such as ophthalmic lenses. It is well known that creating textured nanostructures can be an alternative approach for the conventional deposition of thin layer in order to achieve broadband antireflective properties. The...
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Miniaturized Ultrasound Detectors
Ultrasound technology today is bulky and involves imaging probes with typical sizes of several centimeters. We have developed a new methodology for ultrasound imaging that can achieve extreme levels of miniaturization preserving high-resolution. This platform relies on optical technology for...
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Modulation techniques for optical and other networks
Cellular networks and fiber optic networks require higher data rates and improved latency. We offer technologies that include enhanced modulation schemes and their decoding techniques to facilitate the new requirements. For cellular CRAN application, to support high rates the technology...
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Multispectral imaging device with no moving parts
Multispectral and spectral imaging is used to collect spatially and spectrally resolved radiance information of a predefined region of space. Devices for imaging are built per specific application, resolution and wavelength requirements. Each image pixel contains spectroscopic data. All the...
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Near-field imaging devices
Achieving better resolution in microscopy, metrology and lithography is an on going effort that could be realized by either using smaller wavelength illumination sources which is proved to be difficult for technical and economical reasons or using super-resolution - resolving...
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Novel superconducting materials and devices
The recent demand for quantum technologies garnered much attention for novel superconducting materials and devices. Many of these technologies require coating in superconducting materials, while others involve miniaturized devices. Hence, modern superconducting technologies are based vastly on thin films. Thin...
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Optical reconfigurable logic device
In last few years, there is a need for an optical reconfigurable logic device which enables to lay foundations for all-optical networking, wherein the optical packets are routed by ultra-fast smart all-optical switches as well as optical computing devices. The...
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Organic semiconductors p-dopants
Organic solar cells represent a promising advancement in solar technology, having recently achieved a significant improvement in photo-conversion efficiency from approximately 10% to 17%, with a projected maximum efficiency slightly surpassing 20%. Overcoming challenges in extracting carriers from the active...
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Piezoelectric devices with obliquely aligned electrodes
There exist many mechanical designs of piezoelectric unimorph actuators that can generate various motions other than conventional in-plane motions. Such devices are used to generate deflections or bending, twisting or torsional motion, and parallel out-of-plane motion, for use in micro-electromechanical...
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Piezoelectric-ferroelectric actuator device
The capabilities of piezoelectric stacks actuators are still limited in terms of induced strains and travel range due to the materials operational range. They also have reduced resistance to large mechanical loads in the direction of movement. Many piezoelectric materials...
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Surface Plasmons Polaritons (SPPs) are surface waves that arise at metal-dielectric interfaces when an electromagnetic field oscillates in unison with the free electrons at the surface of the metallic interface constituent. Controlling light on scales much smaller than the light...
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Pulse tube sterling type cryogenic cooling
Refrigeration at temperatures around 80-150 K is required for infrared night-vision equipment with high resolution and fast response times. Compact, light-weight devices are necessary for many typical applications, such as for man-portable night-vision equipment, unattended aerial vehicles, and for use...
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Quantum interferometry for accurate measurements
Force detection plays a crucial role in various applications, including surface characterization, gravitational and geological mapping, and acceleration and rotation sensing. Among the methods available, atomic interferometry stands out as one of the most sensitive techniques for detecting force. Atomic...
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Radiometric interferometry for deep space navigation
Deep space navigation, particularly for spacecraft beyond lunar orbit, currently relies on traditional terrestrial systems such as NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) and ESA’s ESTRACK. These networks employ Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) for angular positioning. While exceptionally accurate, these...
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Sensitive sensors for new nanoparticle resonance biomedical applications
Optical interrogation of targets enables a non-destructive way by which to extract useful information on critical target parameters. Such methods predominantly employ either angular or spectral interrogation, in which the target is illuminated at different incidence angles or wavelengths, respectively....
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Sensors for shooting arms detection
Researcher:
Prof. Emeritus Yael Nemirovsky
Detection of hostile fire in real time in the field is a well-known problem. Modern low intensity conflicts and acts of terrorism are stressing the need for military and law enforcement agencies to locate sporadic sources of hostile fire. The...
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Electro-Optics & Quantum|Security & Defence
Shaping electronic wavefunctions
Electron microscopy has become a pivotal tool in numerous fields of study, such as materials science and biology. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) produce images of a sample by scanning it with a focused electron beam...
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Current technologies to detect the development of underground cavities such as sinkholes or cross border smuggling tunnels require complicated and expensive data acquisition techniques. Fiber optics buried at shallow depth enable continuous, distributed monitoring of soil deformations along tens of...
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Spatial light modulation based on a fluidically actuated elastic sheet
Researcher:
Prof. Moran Bercovici
Spatial light modulator (SLM) is a general term describing devices that are used to modulate amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves in space and time. Manipulating all these light properties enables generation of beams with required properties and finds...
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Spectrally encoded imaging of tympanic membrane vibrations
According to the World Health Organization, over 5% (466 million) of the global population suffer from some sort of disabling hearing loss [1]. The annual cost of unaddressed hearing problems is estimated to be above $750 billion, mainly due to...
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Sub-10 nm monolithic ferroelectric-semiconductor junction
Selective illumination using a scanning laser probe, is used to convert In2Se3 to In2O3, and achieved spatially resolved distinct optical and electrical properties. The method is used to design of coplanar P/N ferroelectric – semiconducting heterojunction. In addition, In2Se3 can...
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Super-resolution in optical measurement devices
Modern microscopy techniques used in life sciences enable the recovery of subwavelength features, even though such information is absent in the actual measurements. More specifically, the techniques known as STED, PALM and STORM rely on fluorescence to achieve this resolution...
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Super-resolution microscopy for 3D imaging
Flow cytometry is a high-throughput system enabling the rapid characterization of cellular populations. Compared to traditional imaging methods, this accelerated process makes it possible to collect a sufficient quantity of data needed to analyze even small subpopulation with statistical significance....
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Electro-Optics & Quantum|FoodTech & Biotechnology
Super-resolution optical microscopy utilizing structured illumination
Standard optical microscopy has a resolution limit of roughly 200nm which is insufficient for modern Biological research. Research of intra-cellular structures requires sub 50nm resolution for dynamic in-vivo studies. Current methods to achieve such resolution are slow or destructive. Illuminating...
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Superradiance cathodoluminescence electron microscope
Superfluorescence (or superradiance) refers to the emission of a collective burst of photons from densely packed emitters with long coherence times and narrow energy spectra. This phenomenon arises when emitters are coupled and correlated through the electromagnetic field. However, it...
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Synthetic aperture imaging by distributed arrays of space telescopes
Long-range imaging is used across various disciplines, including astronomy, remote sensing and surveillance. Higher resolution requires larger aperture and lenses. This makes these systems expensive and cumbersome. A new method for synthetically expanding the aperture by acquiring multiple images of...
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System and method for electron spin resonance
This technology addresses a significant limitation in traditional MRI, which is excellent in damaging anatomical structures, but can say very little as to their physiological condition. An anatomical structure can be hypoxic, enflamed, even dead, yet none of that would...
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System and method to calibrate polarization-sensitive camera
Polarization-sensitive cameras are in mass production for integration in products at various markets. Calibration and quality testing are important when using industrial cameras. Polarization introduces new sensitivity concerns in calibration. For specialized research-level cameras, calibration systems in the world are...
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TERA Hz radiation transmitter
The terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum, in particular the region of 1-10 THz, is called the “terahertz gap” due to the lack of convenient radiation sources which are either inefficient or require cooling and are not tunable in frequency....
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Translator detectors and NIR light amplification based on metal lattice field
Current IR sensors are based on small band gap materials require cryogenic cooling and usually have low quantum yield, hence are expensive and hard to use. Photonic crystals containing nano particles can transform IR radiation into visible light that is...
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Ultrafast microscopy and spectroscopy
Time-resolved Imaging by Multiplexed Ptychography (TIMP) represents a significant breakthrough in ultrahigh-speed imaging, enabling the capture of dynamic, non-repetitive, ultrafast events. Unlike conventional ptychography, which is limited by slow scanning, or other high-speed imaging methods that often compromise resolution or...
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Vertical transistors for display applications
In the field of organic electronics there is a need for high mobility materials. The best mobility is achieved in organic crystals however, these are typically too small even on the scale of a single device let alone for producing...
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Wide scale terrestrial imaging of the sky
A variety of spaceborne and airborne instruments have been applied to spatio-angularly sample and image atmospheric radiance. These imaging architectures, however, have a spatial resolution of several Km/ pixel, an angular resolution of approximately 7 angles per view, and their...
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X-ray radiation source system
High quality energy tunable X-ray sources are important for many applications in various fields of research such as medical diagnostics, material treatment and analysis, food security and many others. Current state-of the-art sources as synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser (FEL)...
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Electro-Optics & Quantum|Medical Devices & Digital Health
Yield and production optimization of photonic integrated circuits
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) have multiple relatively slow tuning degrees of freedom (DOF), that must be adjusted in order to stabilize the PICs to their optimum operating points. Methods are needed to perform this stabilization. Without such methods, large scale integration...
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