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Using Colors of Light to Shrink the Size of Circuitry

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

16 Apr 2009

New Technology Transforms the Utility of an Established Technique

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, has applied Electron Multiplying (EM) technology for the first time to dramatically improve both the speed and sensitivity of Scanning Tunnelling Luminescent spectroscopy (STL) by replacing the standard CCD camera, used to detect photons, with one of its Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras.

15 Apr 2009

Indiana University and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center Recognizes Success of Ongoing Partnership

Indiana University and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center recognized the success of an ongoing partnership to enhance national security and advance research opportunities in life sciences, physics and other fields during a ceremony Monday (April 13) at IU's Cyclotron Facility.

15 Apr 2009

First Experimental Proof of All-Optical Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits

The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.

14 Apr 2009

Using Lasers to Design and Control Polarization

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will.

13 Apr 2009

Important Step for Making Light Crystals

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.

9 Apr 2009

nLIGHT Delivers Initial Units of Highest Brightness Ever Achieved from Fiber-Coupled Diode Laser to Development Partners

nLIGHT has delivered initial units of the highest brightness ever achieved from a fiber-coupled diode laser to development partners. nLIGHT Pearl fiber-coupled diode lasers produce up to 100 Watts of 976 nanometer light from a 105 micron core fiber at an excitation numerical aperture of 0.12.

9 Apr 2009

Commercially Viable Technology for Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT), a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime.

9 Apr 2009

Researchers Create New Way to Make "Dye-Sensitized" Solar Cells

Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build compared to existing s...

8 Apr 2009

Research Points Way Toward Chameleon-Like Camouflage

Certain fish species blend with their environment by changing color. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have demonstrated that, in theory, they could cause synthetic materials to change color like fish do.

8 Apr 2009

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