HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS

INFRARED CAMERAS AND LENSES

TUNABLE FILTERS AND SOURCES

NEWS FROM OUR COLLABORATOR

OPTINA DIAGNOSTICS

Congratulations to Optina Diagnostics for its successful seed round of funding. They have come a long way since the company spun off from Photon etc.. The future of Alzheimer diagnosis is at a turn in its history. Read the press release here! 

WEBINAR

May 30th, 10:00 ET

On May 30th, was taking place Photon etc.'s webinar on the Hyperspectral Characterization of Next Generation Solar Cells and LEDs. Two of our top scientists gave a live demonstration of our IMA™ on a perovskite crystal. If you want more information about the webinar, email us at info@photonetc.com.

SÉBASTIEN BLAIS-OUELLETTE, PHOTON ETC’S PRESIDENT AND CEO IS NOW VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ‘‘CENTRE D’ENTREPRENARIAT POLY-UDEM’’

You can find more information about the centre here.

MARC VERHAEGEN, PHOTON ETC’S CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER HAS BEEN ELECTED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PRIMA QUÉBEC.

Prima Québec has made it its objective to strengthen collaborative innovation in the field of advanced materials in Quebec. You can find more information on PRIMA Québec here.

PHOTON ETC. IS NOW PART OF SIMON THIBAULT’S RESEARCH CHAIR

Photon etc. is proud to announce that it is now part of Simon Thibault's research chair in Optical Design. Professor Thibault and his team from the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval will help Photon etc. develop new optical systems in the near infrared range for which there is a growing demand in industrial vision system and biomedical research.

More details on the research chair are available on the NSERC website.

AN OPTICAL NANOREPORTER OF ENDOLYSOSOMAL LIPID ACCUMULATION REVEALS ENDURING EFFECTS OF DIET ON HEPATIC MACROPHAGES IN VIVO

Dr. Dan Heller’s research led to a very interesting discovery. Using SWCNT-based optical reporter and our IR VIVO™ imager, his group found that elevated lipid quantities in hepatic macrophages - the liver - caused by a high-fat diet persist long after reverting to a normal diet. In other words, Morgan Spurlock (the Super Size Me guy) might have affected his health irreversibly for his movie.    

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NONINVASIVE OVARIAN CANCER BIOMARKER DETECTION VIA AN OPTICAL NANOSENSOR IMPLANT

A research team led by Daniel Heller at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used our new SWIR imager to capture the first in vivo optical nanosensor capable of noninvasive cancer biomarker detection in orthotopic models of disease.    

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ELECTROSTATIC DEPOSITION OF LARGE-SURFACE GRAPHENE

The department of electrical engineering from ÉTS used RIMA to map the G’ band over a wide area for their new publication. Their paper presents a method for electrostatic deposition of graphene over a large area using controlled electrostatic exfoliation from a Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) block.

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HYPERSPECTRAL RAMAN IMAGING USING BRAGG TUNABLE FILTERS OF GRAPHENE AND OTHER LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS

Here we present a hyperspectral Raman system based on Bragg tunable filtering that is capable of global imaging with significantly reduced acquisition time and improved sensitivity compared to scanning confocal Raman microscopes.

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CARBON NANOTUBE OPTICAL REPORTER MAPS ENDOLYSOSOMAL LIPID FLUX.

‘‘In this Perspective, we discuss the existing strategies for and challenges of using carbon nanotubes for medical diagnosis based on intracellular sensing as well as discuss also their biocompatibility and degradability [...]’’ See how IMA IR is being used in this study:

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WHITE PAPER - COOLING SWIR SENSORS

AN OVERVIEW

Dark current is a critical parameter when one is looking to acquire a scientific imaging camera, especially in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) region. Very careful attention must be paid to the cooling method used to optimize this parameter. In this white paper, a short introduction to thermoelectric (TE) cooling is presented, as well as a comparison with other available cooling methods.

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PDAC INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 2019

March 3rd - 6th, 2019 in Toronto, 

Photon etc.’s delegates will attend the PDAC's International Convention 2019 in Toronto, Ontario. If you would like to arrange a meeting with Photon etc.'s team during the event, email us.