There's Still Time to 'Hitch a Ride' on NASA Craft
Oct. 31, 2006
NASA has received the names of more than 170,000 space enthusiasts from around the world and is...
Sofradir to Supply SWIR Detectors
Oct. 31, 2006
Sofradir, a French maker of advanced infrared (IR) detectors, announced it has signed a €1 million...
Inaugural SEMI 'Nano U' to Discuss Latest Research
Oct. 30, 2006
Nanotechnology experts from top US universities will offer insight into the latest nanotech...
Snapshot of a Laser Wakefield
Oct. 30, 2006
Speedy plasma waves known as Langmuir waves have been photographed for the first time, using a...
UV Light Reveals Secrets of Nanoelectronic Materials
Oct. 27, 2006
Using the new method of ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy, scientists have been able to measure, for...
Yale Launches Nanoscience, Quantum Engineering Center
Oct. 27, 2006
Yale University today announced it has established the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum...
UK Sets Sights on Top World Scientists
Oct. 27, 2006
In a bid to attract the best world scientists to the United Kingdom, Department of Trade and...
Hybrid Microscope Combines Optics, Ultrafast Laser
Oct. 27, 2006
A new hybrid device that combines an optical microscope with an ultrafast laser could be used to...
Airborne Laser Modifications Rolled Out
Oct. 27, 2006
The Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft, being built by Boeing and other contractors for the the US...
British Nanotech Firm Moving Operations to Albany, NY
Oct. 26, 2006
A manufacturing firm deeply entrenched in the growing nanotechnology industry will uproot its...
Global Crossing Acquiring Impsat
Oct. 26, 2006
IP-based network provider Global Crossing Ltd. announced today that it will acquire...
UDT Becomes Gamma Scientific Div.
Oct. 26, 2006
UDT Instruments will become a division of Gamma Scientific, a manufacturer of light-measurement...
Germany Rejects Coherent Purchase
Oct. 26, 2006
Coherent Inc. announced Wednesday it received a prohibition order from the German Federal Cartel...
Nano-Giga Forum Extends Abstract Deadline
Oct. 25, 2006
The deadline for abstract submissions to the Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics and Photonics...
Luxtera Demonstrates Single-Fiber 40 Gb/s Link
Oct. 25, 2006
Luxtera Inc., a developer of CMS photonics technology, announced this week it has demonstrated...
URochester Awarded $3M for Biomedical Optics Research
Oct. 25, 2006
The University of Rochester will get $3 million in state support of its Robert B. Goergen Hall for...
New MRI Technique is Ultrasensitive
Oct. 25, 2006
A new technique for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that allows the detection of signals from...
Diodes Inc. Buying APD Semiconductor for $8M
Oct. 24, 2006
Discrete and analog semiconductor maker Diodes Inc. announced today that it will buy privately held...
UK Academies Decry Lack of Nanotech Safety Research
Oct. 24, 2006
In a new report published today, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering expressed...
Two Rare Particles Discovered at Fermilab
Oct. 24, 2006
Scientists yesterday announced the discovery of two "rare jewels," two subatomic particles that are...
No Ice Seen on Lunar Dark Side
Oct. 23, 2006
Using the highest resolution radar-signal images ever made of the moon -- images from the National...
Graphene Discovery Leads to Top Physics Prize
Oct. 23, 2006
A discovery that could lead to computers being made from one-atom-thick sheets of carbon has netted...
Newport to Acquire Picarro's Laser Products Biz
Oct. 23, 2006
Photonics technologies supplier Newport Corp. today announced that it will acquire the Laser...
Cloak of Partial Invisibility Created
Oct. 20, 2006
A team of US and British scientists has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak," a...
Display Center Tour on Agenda
Oct. 20, 2006
Tours of Arizona State University's Flexible Display Center will be offered at Printed Electronics...
Quake Damages Hawaii Telescopes
Oct. 20, 2006
While their telescopes' huge mirrors escaped unharmed, scientists at the 13 powerful and...
ICON Report Finds Nanotech Policies Lacking
Oct. 19, 2006
The nanotechnology industry needs to do a better job of documenting its environmental, health and...
Tiny Endoscope Images in 3-D
Oct. 19, 2006
By projecting multicolored light from a single optical fiber onto tissue, a newly developed tiny...
WISE to Map the Sky in IR Light
Oct. 19, 2006
After eight years of study, NASA has approved the construction of an unmanned satellite that will...
OSA: FiO 2006 a Resounding Success
Oct. 19, 2006
With more than 100 participating companies, a 44 percent increase in the number of exhibitors and...
Level 3 to Buy Broadwing for $1.4B
Oct. 18, 2006
Level 3 Communications will acquire Broadwing Corp. in a cash and stock deal worth $1.4 billion,...
Inner Lives of Cells Revealed
Oct. 18, 2006
For the first time, researchers can see every vibration of a cell membrane, using a technique that...
6500 Attend Broadband Forum
Oct. 18, 2006
Nearly 6500 telecom professionals from 120 countries attended Broadband World Forum Europe, held...
JDSU Acquires Metconnex IP
Oct. 18, 2006
JDSU announced Monday it is acquiring the technology and patent portfolio of Metconnex Canada Inc.,...
ASU Solar Project Gets $1M NSF Grant
Oct. 18, 2006
A team of scientists from Arizona State University has received a three-year, $1.1 million grant...
Samsung VP: Displays Will Embrace HD
Oct. 18, 2006
The LCD industry’s large-screen TV segment is expanding to the point that full high-definition (HD)...
Bistable Nanoswitch Developed
Oct. 16, 2006
A novel carbon nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical switch has been demonstrated that could prove...
A Simple Way to Make Self-Assembling Particles
Oct. 16, 2006
From a butterfly’s iridescent wing to a gecko’s sticky foot, nature derives extraordinary...
Sensor Offers Early Missile Warning Alternative
Oct. 16, 2006
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has given Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS),...
Restitution Falls Short in PPGI Embezzlement
Oct. 16, 2006
Photonic Products Group Inc. (PPGI) received $300,000 from its insurance company in reimbursement...
Ethernet Alliance to Conduct Summit Sessions
Oct. 13, 2006
The Ethernet Alliance will conduct sessions on switch fabrics, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, backplane...
Self-Cleaning Lotus Mimicked for PV Arrays, Nonstick MEMS
Oct. 13, 2006
Some of nature's best nonstick surfaces -- the leaves and flowers of the lotus plant -- are being...
LEDs Part of VW Bus Makeover
Oct. 13, 2006
A 1960s icon has been reborn -- in part due to LED technology. Volkswagen of America Inc. (VW) and...
ORNL to Host Nanotech Forum Nano Nexus 2007
Oct. 13, 2006
Nano Nexus 2007, a nanotechnology-oriented forum bringing together academia, industry and budding...
New Biosensor Could Target, Kill Cancer Cells
Oct. 12, 2006
A highly sensitive nucleotide sensor has been developed that uses the special light-emitting...
OSA Elects 2007 Vice President, Directors-at-Large
Oct. 12, 2006
Thomas Baer, executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University,...
Normal Light Converted to Short-Wave Photons
Oct. 12, 2006
For the first time, scientists have manipulated low-energy long-wave photons, or normal light such...
NSF Awards $76M for 4 Sci-Tech Centers
Oct. 12, 2006
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a total of $76 million, to be distributed over...
Nanomaterial Stops Bleeding in Seconds
Oct. 11, 2006
Some simple biodegradable liquids can stop bleeding in wounded rodents within seconds, a...
DoE to Spend $5M for Solid-State Lighting Research
Oct. 11, 2006
The US Department of Energy's (DoE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will spend...
Researchers Seek to Integrate THz Detectors and Electronics
Oct. 11, 2006
Sensors and detectors that work in the terahertz range show promise in applications ranging from...
Kodak Funds Research at UMass, URochester
Oct. 10, 2006
Eastman Kodak Co. has announced new research partnerships with the University of Massachusetts...
Fiber Lines Are Handy Mode for Secret-Message Code
Oct. 10, 2006
A new technique sends secret messages so cleverly it would impress James Bond -- and it requires no...
First Quantum Teleportation Made Between Light and Matter
Oct. 10, 2006
Researchers in Germany and Denmark have discovered that, for the first time, it is possible to...
FTTH Subscriber Numbers Rise
Oct. 10, 2006
The number of North American homes and businesses with direct end-to-end fiber connections now...
Carbon Nanotubes Sorted by Electronic Properties
Oct. 6, 2006
Carbon nanotubes are highly touted for their exceptional mechanical, thermal, optical and...
Bifano Gets Permanent Post to Direct BU Photonics Center
Oct. 6, 2006
Boston University yesterday announced that Thomas Bifano, a professor in its College of...
Sugar-Coated Carbon Nanotubes Stop Anthrax
Oct. 5, 2006
Just as a "spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down," researchers have found that coating...
2-D Spectrometry Images Reveal DESI Potential
Oct. 5, 2006
The first two-dimensional images of biological samples have been creasted using a new mass...
Simple Protein Key to Insect Eye Evolution
Oct. 5, 2006
Researchers have found that mutations in a single structural protein can determine whether an...
AFM Tip Used to Precisely Map Light's Wave Pattern
Oct. 5, 2006
Using the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM), researchers have discovered that it is possible...
Spin-Based Semiconductor Works at Room Temp.
Oct. 4, 2006
Researchers have created an improved magnetic semiconductor that they said solves an...
'HurraFussball' Demo'd at OEC
Oct. 4, 2006
HurraFussball, an organic electronics game board developed by Menippos GmbH and manufactured by...
'Big Bang' Research Wins Physics Nobel Prize
Oct. 3, 2006
Two US scientists today received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work, which analyzed...
Single-Pixel Camera Takes High-Resolution Images
Oct. 3, 2006
Using new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with hundreds of thousands of bacterium-sized...
Physicist's Snowflake Images on Postage Stamps
Oct. 3, 2006
Microphotographic images of snowflakes captured by California Institute of Technology physics...
Improbable 'Buckyegg' Hatched
Oct. 2, 2006
An egg-shaped fullerene, or "Buckyball", has been made and characterized by chemists. The...
Avionics Technology Topic of CANEUS
Oct. 2, 2006
About 300 top scientists, physicists, engineers, venture capitalists and legal specialists from...