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Agilent Technologies Announces Acquisitions

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire TILL Photonics GmbH and has completed the acquisition of Colloidal Dynamics.

3 Mar 2008

Survey of Optical Instruments

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Handbook of Optical Systems, Volume 4, Survey of Optical Instruments” to their offering.

3 Mar 2008

Using Quantum Technology to Produce World's First Commercial Source of Photons

The world's first commercial source of individual photons (particles of light) using diamond based quantum technology has been developed by Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) within the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

28 Feb 2008

Researchers Demonstrates New Type of Optical Tweezer

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrated a new type of optical tweezer with the potential to make biological and microfluidic force measurements in integrated systems such as microfluidic chips.

25 Feb 2008

An Essential Guide to Imaging, Testing And Modelling of Dental Biomaterials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Dental Biomaterials: Imaging, Testing And Modelling to their offering.

23 Feb 2008

Creating Lasers Working at Wavelengths Currently Inaccessible

Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.

21 Feb 2008

New Cornell Electron Microscope Takes Color Pictures

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.

21 Feb 2008

Examining Internal Structure of Materials at High Speed Using X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008

Lensless X-Ray Technique that Take Images of Ultra-Small Structures

X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators have developed a lensless X-ray technique that can take images of ultra-small structures buried in nanoparticles and nanomaterials, and features within whole biological cells such as cellular nuclei.

20 Feb 2008

New Technology Quickly and Precisely Images Molecules

While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nano-sized probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University made an interesting observation. The tiny, clustered dots of light looked a lot like a starry sky on a clear night.

19 Feb 2008