Photonics Hot List: July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024
In this episode: AI infiltrates optics via OptoGPT, gold boosts x-ray imaging, and an LED implant kills cancer cells.

In this episode of Photonics Hot List:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly made its way into everyday life, in everything from healthcare to self-driving cars. And thanks to some new developments by researchers in Michigan, it could soon advance technologies including solar cells and smart windows.

An international team of researchers has discovered gold may have more value beyond that of jewelry or currency. It could potentially help boost technologies used in x-ray imaging to improve medical care and security procedures.

Difficult to access cancers can be quite difficult to treat, even with ever-advancing light-based technologies. But now, an implantable LED device developed by researchers at Notre Dame could change that by turning cancer cells against themselves.

About the Author

Justine Murphy | Multimedia Director

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Laser Focus World and Vision Systems Design. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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