Holography News articles from September 2011

Holography News archives from September 2011

Fresnel lenses give toothpaste a bright future.
September 1, 2011... Oral care packaging has been featuring holographic materials since 1994, when SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline--GSK) introduced holographic packaging on Aquafresh Whitening (see HN Vol 12 No 3). Soon other producers also started to...

A low-cost holographic microscope.
September 1, 2011... A team of engineers at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a portable, affordable, and easy to use microscope using holographic principles. Prof. Aydogan Ozcan and co-workers have used holographic interference patterns...

Old roots, new shoots.(Editorial)
September 1, 2011... In his 1948 paper on Microscopy by Reconstructed Wave-Fronts, Denis Gabor envisioned the improvements that could be made in electron microscopy by interfering a reference wave with an object beam. He mentioned only in passing that the resulting...

Beyonce pulse fragrance.(Hologram of the Month)
September 1, 2011... Coty, the world's biggest fragrance company, has just launched Beyonce Pulse perfume, packaged in a series of eight eye-catching holographic cartons produced by Curtis Packaging with holograms produced by Hazen Paper. According to Beyonce,...

Holo-packaging successes in DuPont Awards.(Holo-Packaging)
September 1, 2011... DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers runs a pack design award, this year being the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, and holographic packaging featured strongly. The Sensodyne pack won a Gold Award, for which the citation...

Holographic electron microscopy.(Holo-Microscopy)
September 1, 2011... A team at Tohoku University in Japan, led by associate professor Kouichi Hayashi, has succeeded in 3D atomic imaging using a time-inverted version of photoelectron holography. The research group, in collaboration with Tohoku Techo Arch Company,...

Rolling Optics (non)hologram security.(Holographic Imposters)
September 1, 2011... The Swedish company Rolling Optics AB (RO), located in Stockholm, has introduced an Integral Imaging technique for creating 3-D effects which it describes as 'holographic' and which they are marketing for product security using the name 3-D...

Holo-microscopy of neurons.(Holographic Imposters)
September 1, 2011... Researchers at the Brain Mind Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in Switzerland have begun to use digital holographic microscopy to understand better the function of living cells. According to Pierre Magistretti, Director...

Billions wiped off markets - fear of global recession.(Stockwatch)
September 1, 2011... We are experiencing a time of massive financial and economic uncertainty as politicians in both the Eurozone and the USA struggle to solve their financial and economic problems. While the problems in the USA are serious there is no immediate...

Holo-pack * Holo-print brochure.(Conferences)
September 1, 2011... The brochure for Holo-pack. Holo-print (R), The Holography Conference, is enclosed with this issue of Holography News. The event takes place in Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 9-11 2011. The brochure demonstrates how holographic materials can be...

ID a focus in September 2001.(10 YEARS AGO)
September 1, 2011... The September 2001 issue of Holography News (R) focused on the security of ID documents, an immediate response to the events in the USA on September 11 that year. We asked how those events would impact the holography industry, obviously...

Car parts protected by holograms.(20 YEARS AGO)
September 1, 2011... The September 1991 issue reported that two manufacturers of replacement vehicle parts had started to use holograms to fight counterfeit parts. In the UK, Amble Hurst Ltd (later renamed as De La Rue Holographics) was supplying a 2.5 X 3 cm...

ISDH Call for Papers.(Conferences)
September 1, 2011... The Call for Papers has been issued for the International Symposium on Display Holography, to be held at MIT in Cambridge, Mass, 25-29 June 2012. The ISDH 'synthesizes history, education, art, science, and economic developments that involve...

ISO authentication standard.(Standards)
September 1, 2011... The International Standards Organisation's (ISO) Project Committee 246 has completed the almost-final draft of ISO Standard 12931 on Performance criteria for authentication solutions for use in combating counterfeiting of material goods. The few...

TUV-HoMAI standard.(Standards)
September 1, 2011... The Hologram Manufacturers Association of India (HoMAI) has worked with TUV Rheinland (India)--TUVR--to produce a joint Hologram Safety and Security Management System for hologram manufacturers. This new standard covers aspects of quality...