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OPTICON introduces an advanced Redox Flow Battery designed for residential applications. The base configuration provides 2kW of continuous power and an initial energy capacity of 8kWh, suitable for daily energy management and providing reliable backup power.

Redox Flow Batteries (RFBs) are rechargeable batteries that store energy in liquid electrolytes, separated into two tanks and circulated through the use of pumps. This sets RFB apart from batteries with “static” electrolytes in either ‘gel-like’ (Li-ion batteries) or liquid form (lead-acid/car batteries). They are safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly since they are fully recyclable.

Building on OPTICON’s strong experience in laser processing of thin films (and bulk materials) for high-end, innovative, and automation-friendly product manufacturing, our batteries are precision-built for long-lasting operation.

The core advantage of RFB technology is that power and energy are decoupled, allowing storage capacity to be expanded independently from the power unit by simply increasing the electrolyte volume. This enables us to build battery configurations tailored to your actual needs while also offering a cost-effective upgrade path for your future energy requirements.

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Project ULTRA goal is to develop a Laser Ablation Propulsion (LAP) engine for miniaturized satellites with form factor of 10cm cube multiples. A class of satellites best known as ‘CubeSats’.

Laser Ablation Propulsion (LAP) has been proposed as a satellite propulsion technique since the 1970’s, with primer focus on its extremely efficient performance (thrust generated per kilogram of fuel consumed). However, both in literature as well as in actual implementations, LAP always used pulsed/ultrafast (ns and fs) lasers to ablate ‘fuels’, the cost, size and power needs of which (pulsed lasers) made their use on the CubeSat platforms impossible.

Building on Opticon’s experience in Thin Film Laser processing, and Laser assisted Polymer Ablation procedures, we are developing, to the best of our knowledge, the first propulsion engine that will be able to scale LAP in less than 10cm^3 of volume, at 1/10 the cost of similarly performing engines for CubeSat applications.

Thrust will be generated through ablating polymers (‘fuels’) and using the momentum of their ejected/ablated fragments. To ablate the ‘fuel’, well focused, miniature sized, CW diode lasers will be used. In order to generate ablation phenomena at low intensities (in the KW/cm^2 range) – which are possible to generate with such lasers.

Τhe project is co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code: T2EDK-01119)

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In the next 30 years (up to 2050), the number of people expected to be living in cities will almost double and indoor living/artificial lighting will need to carry comfort and well-being properties. Re-inventing indoor lighting is not a life-style priority, but a true global-scale social necessity rising from the unprecedented transformation of the urban landscape.

The ‘Seal of Excellence’ awarded IOLAS (Innovative Organic Lighting Architectural Surfaces) concept of using nanopaterning techniques for structuring light towards building ‘teramorphing’ environments, successfully undergoes a feasibility study with the support of the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation

Τhe project is co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code:T2EDK-01596)

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Since 2010 Opticon has been developing cutting edge laser ablation solutions for nano-manufacturing in the sub-100nm range.

Combining innovate materials built around its High Energy eXitation (HEX) photosensitization technology, and in-house developed hardware, Opticon has demonstrated the making of 20nm features using (common/low-cost) 405nm laser diodes – approximately 20X smaller than the wavelength used for generating them! –

EU co-funded project ‘nanos’ (Greek for dwarf) targeted in expanding our continuous wave laser/HEX photosensitization-based process from multiphoton degradation towards multiphoton polymerization.

Since earlier this year, we have been able to prove that CW lasers can be a viable alternative to ultra-fast lasers in deep sub-micron 3D nano-scale manufacturing, and the quality of our features is continuously getting better by the day!

Our vision is to deliver a low cost platform for high-end/low-volume nanomanufacturing, sparking innovation in nano-scale for photonics applications in general and for photonic sensor/biosensors manufacturing in specific.

Τhe project is co‐financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code:T1EDK-05340)