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Astrid De Keyser, deputy director of Inward Investment Japan & South-East Asia at Flanders Investment & Trade, interviewed professor Hugo Thienpont about the role Flanders plays in the development of photonics as a key enabling technology. Discover the main insights.

With this chair Hamamatsu Photonics wants to intensify its contacts with B-PHOT researchers and stay in touch with B-PHOT's latest research breakthroughs and their potential applications.

Fashion tip for Black Friday! Or should we say Vantablack Friday?

Laboratory equipmentand machine tools / laboratoriumapparatuur en werktuigmachines
VUB -B-PHOT kondigt verschillende open procedures aan voor de aanschaf vanlaboratoriumapparatuur en werktuigmachines.

In this project, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and TU Eindhoven (TU/e) are joining forces by expanding and synergistically combining their unique expertise and research infrastructure for freeform optics (VUB) and photonic integrated chips (TU/e), with the aim of setting up a state-of-the-art one-stop-shop photonics technology platform for innovating companies from Flanders, The Netherlands and the rest of Europe. The project started on 01/04/2019 and 50% of the total project budget of 4.4M€ was financed by Interreg.

The Open-Innovation Photonics pilot for North West Europe (OIP4NWE) aims to drastically reduce high R&D costs and time for SMEs in the field of photonics. A significant decrease of the defect rate in pilot production and a shorter throughput time can help establish a thousand integrated firms within a decade.

Food safety and quality has become increasingly important in our society. At the World of Technology and Science (WOTS) fair, researcher Lien Smeesters highlights the impact of photonics technologies to increase food safety while reducing food waste.