PRECLINICAL IMAGER

INFRARED CAMERAS AND LENSES

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERS

TUNABLE SOURCES AND FILTERS

PHOTON ETC. RENEWS ITS SUPPORT TO PROF. SIMON THIBAULT'S RESEARCH CHAIR

With the 2019 Partnership Award from ADRIQ, Photon etc. and Professor Simon Thibault's research group from Laval University officially renew their collaboration for the upcoming four years. Our company is indeed proud to announce that it is renewing its support for the research chair in optical design of Simon Thibault, professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval. This partnership will allow Photon etc. to increase its leadership in infrared and hyperspectral technologies, to benefit from increased demand in industrial vision and biomedical research.

PHOTON ETC. WINS THE PARTNERSHIP PRIZE AT THE INNOVATION AWARD 2019

Photon etc.'s collaboration with Professor Simon Thibault from the COPL at Université Laval was awarded the Partnership prize during the ADRIQ-RCTI Innovation Awards. Together, we perfected the development of the ZephIR cameras and we also created a unique industrial telecentric objective lens, the HypIRias. By using exotic glasses, we obtain a high resolution while maximizing the throughput within the 1-2.9 µm spectral band.

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.

Photon renews its support for Prof Simon Thibault's research chair.

DECIPHERING THE ORIGINS OF P1-INDUCED POWER LOSSES IN CIGS MODULES THROUGH HYPERSPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE

Another great application of our hyperspectral imager in the photovoltaic field.

‘‘ In this report, we show that hyperspectral high-resolution photoluminescence mapping is a powerful tool for the selection and optimization of the laser ablation processes used for the patterning interconnections of subcells on CIGS modules.’’

A HOT-CARRIER ASSISTED InAs/AlGaAs QUANTUM-DOT INTERMEDIATE-BAND SOLAR CELL

Really interesting article from IPVF and Tokyo University where absolute intensity calibrated PL hyperspectral images acquired with IMA were used to "investigate the balance of photons in the QD-IBSC [intermediate-band assisted hot-carrier solar cell] system following the emission from different positions of the excited sample."

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A HIGHLY EMISSIVE SURFACE LAYER IN MIXED-HALIDE MULTICATION PEROVSKITE

Really interesting work from Prof Stranks' research group from Cambridge University. In this paper, the changes in photoluminescence and photoconductance of solution-processed triple-cation mixed-halide perovskite films are studied under solar-equivalent illumination. See how the PL emission maps obtained with Photon etc's hyperspectral microscope is used to provide insight on spatial heterogeneities.

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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 reporters 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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WEBINAR: Hyperspectral Imaging and Absolute
Calibration for Photovoltaic

On March 31st took place Photon etc.'s webinar on probing emerging materials for solar cells by combining hyperspectral imaging and absolute calibration in microscopy and wide-field. 

Watch it here!