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Ability of Plants to Turn Sunlight into Energy has Been Successfully Mimicked by Scientists

The ability of plants to turn sunlight into energy through photosynthesis has been successfully mimicked by scientists at the University of Southampton to produce a new generation of solar cells.

25 Feb 2009

Precisely Measuring One-Neutron Halo using Lasers

Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered at the University of California in Berkeley that there are exceptions to this picture: Certain exotic atomic nuclei contain particles that shear off from the central core and create a cloud, which surrounds the central core like a 'heiligenschein' or halo.

21 Feb 2009

New Imaging Technique Developed by Researchers Overcomes Limit of Diffraction

A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution of less than one angstrom (less than one hundred-millionth of a centimeter).

18 Feb 2009

Full Colour Range of Displays using Quantum Dot Technology

Nanoco Technologies is producing a full colour range of displays using their proprietary quantum dots which includes their cadmium free quantum dot technology (CFQDTM).

15 Feb 2009

A. Kruess Optronic Introduces Small Software Revolution for Polarimeter P8000

In time for the Analytica Vietnam, A. Kruess Optronic presents a small software revolution for its flagship polarimeter P8000. The improvements and extensions made are almost a quantum jump in regards to the software.

12 Feb 2009

Japanese Researchers Develop New Process to Capture Light Energy

Japanese researchers have now developed a new process to capture light energy with nearly equal efficiency. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they "plug" a molecular "wire" directly into a biological photosynthetic system to efficiently conduct the free electrons to a gold electrode.

11 Feb 2009

Quantum Light Platform Surpasses Brightness and Lifetime Performance Thresholds

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based solutions for displays and lighting, announced it has achieved significant improvements in brightness, efficiency and lifetime thresholds for its Quantum Light" product platform, advancing its quest to make quantum-dot-based light-emitting devices (QLEDs) deliver best-in-class performance among display technologies.

7 Feb 2009

New Laser Technique Reveals Inner Workings of Photosynthesis

"These new pictures are instantaneous snap-shots of energy being transported between electrons across a protein. Remarkably, the pictures go further in unravelling the complex way the electrons interact. This gives us something akin to a fingerprint for electronic couplings," says Dr Ian Mercer from the School of Physics at University College Dublin, the lead author of the new study, who is a visiting researcher at Imperial College London.

5 Feb 2009

Innolume to Present Technical Paper on Revolutionary Comb-Laser at Photonics West

Innolume, the leading provider of Quantum Dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1064nm to 1320nm optical spectrum, today announced that it will be presenting a technical paper on its revolutionary comb-laser at Photonics West in San Jose, California January 27th (Paper 7230-21, Session 5: Integration and Devices for Comms, 10:30 AM).

22 Jan 2009

Device will have Many Important Applications to Quantum Technologies

A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly bizarre quantum world. This so called "entanglement filter" passes the pair of photons only if they inhabit the same quantum state, without the user (or anything else) ever knowing what that state is.

22 Jan 2009