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Beautiful Colour on Butterfly Wings May Help Create Impressive Optic Effects in Paint

Nowhere in nature is there so much beautiful colour as on the wings of butterflies. Scientists, however, are still baffled about exactly how these colours are created.

16 Jan 2008

Boston College Selects JEOL Microscopes for Nanofabrication Clean Room Facility

JEOL USA announced today that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication clean room facility in Newton, Massachusetts.

15 Jan 2008

PennWell Officially Launches its Latest Venture

Looking to capitalize on the rapidly growing market for optical technologies and instrumentation in the life sciences, PennWell Corporation has officially launched its latest venture, BioOptics World. The new magazine and web site are now live and available at www.bioopticsworld.com.

15 Jan 2008

Unique Hands-On Experience with State-of-the-Art Scientific Equipment for Visitors

Nikon Instruments, Inc. today announced a partnership with the Marian Koshland Science Museum and the National Academy of Sciences to place a Coolscope Microscope in the museum's first-ever Microbe Lab.

15 Jan 2008

Cable Testers and Fiber Optic Test Kits Featuring Westover Fiber Inspection Solutions

At Winter BICSI Conference 2008, JDSU will display new products from its extensive portfolio of task-ready tools for network and enterprise test -. including the unveiling of the LanScaperPRO(TM) Network Tester and TestifierPRO(TM) Cable Tester -. as well as new fiber optic test kits featuring products from Westover Scientific, acquired by JDSU on January 7. JDSU's portfolio will be exhibited at booth # 1207.

14 Jan 2008

JDSU Acquires Leading Provider of Fiber Optic Inspection and Cleaning Solutions

JDSU today announced that it has acquired the fiber division of Westover Scientific Inc., a leading provider of fiber optic inspection and cleaning solutions. Westover Scientific's products complement JDSU's existing fiber field and lab and production test portfolio and will be integrated with JDSU's Communications Test and Measurement (CommTest) business, now the largest provider of fiber optic test solutions in the world for service providers, labs and manufacturers.

7 Jan 2008

Researchers First to Achieve Optical Waveguiding of Near-Infrared Light

Researchers at the University of Illinois are the first to achieve optical waveguiding of near-infrared light through features embedded in self-assembled, three-dimensional photonic crystals. Applications for the optically active crystals include low-loss waveguides, low-threshold lasers and on-chip optical circuitry.

7 Jan 2008

Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopes Sheds Light into a Smaller World

There are natural limits to resolution: spots that are less than about 300 nanometers apart cannot be displayed separately using a conventional light-optical microscope.

3 Jan 2008

Scientists Explains the Glue at the Core of Superconductivity

A team of Boston College researchers led by Asst. Prof. Vidya Madhavan (Physics) has identified an alternative explanation for the microscopic origins of the “glue” that binds electrons during high-temperature superconductivity, according to results published in the December 13 edition of the scientific journal Nature.

1 Jan 2008

Advancements in Emerging Field of Plasmonics Yield Revolutionary Technologies

Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.

19 Dec 2007