A state-of-the-art laser facility currently under construction in Prague is set to become one of Europe’s Centres of Excellence thanks to a new partnership project with the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Details have been announced of a Horizon 2020 funded project focused on promoting the importance of photonics.

Researchers benefitting from a European research grant have started developing a smartphone product that can help screen for early signs of life-threatening diseases.

EU researchers benefitting from H2020 funding have begun their investigations into creating an early-stage cardiovascular disease detection platform using integrated silicon photonics.

Chemists can now follow chemical reactions in liquids with unprecedented, atomically resolved detail on sub-picosecond timescales.

The Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL) Joint Undertaking (JU) has announced it has selected 12 projects to receive funding following its 2014 calls.

Michael Mertin has unanimously been chosen as the president of the Photonics21 Association for a second term.

Teams at TU München and Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques have devised a methodology for reading stored information.

Pioneering X-ray experiments at the Technische Universität München have provided scientists with a glimpse into the widely-unknown nano world.

A high-throughput method of imaging biological particles using an X-ray laser has been developed by an international team of scientists led by Uppsala University, Sweden.

Motion control and memory have been combined for the first time in artificial muscles following a breakthrough by the University of Cambridge in the UK.

A Hebrew University scientist benefitting from a European Research Council grant has used the funding to study the possibility of creating a new indicator to help detect the early signs of cancer.

Physicists have discovered unexpected behaviour of electrons under very specialised conditions which could lead to new types of transistors and electronic circuits that could prove highly energy efficient.

Imec’s associated lab at Ghent University, Belgium, has joined the European Commission’s SPIRIT project on optical transceivers for next-generation flexible optical networks.

Researchers have determined how light beams excite the chemicals in solar panels, enabling them to produce charge.

The European Commission has launched a €5bn public private partnership – ECSEL – to boost Europe’s electronics design and manufacturing capabilities.

The European Commission has decided that French aid to STMicroelectronics is in line with EU rules on state aid.

At a summit in Grenoble, European and local entrepreneurs, together with research organisations, met to discuss the future challenges for the reindustrialisation of Europe.

The European Commission, EU member states, and industry will be brought together in the Electronic Components & Systems for European Leadership Joint Technology Initiative.

The EU has contributed €3.1m to a project concerned with developing ultra short pulse disk lasers for industrial materials processing applications.