Explosives Emboss Holograms
Mar. 31, 2008
Hear the word "explosives" and images might spring to mind of an old building being demolished, or...
Lumera, GigOptix to Merge
Mar. 28, 2008
Photonic communications company Lumera Corp. announced it will merge with privately held integrated...
Sharp Invests in Film Plant
Mar. 28, 2008
Sharp Corp. said it has invested 72 billion yen (about $725 million) to build a thin-film silicon...
DSS 2009 Adds Sensing Topics
Mar. 27, 2008
SPIE said it will enhance its 2009 Defense+Security Symposium (DSS) by incorporating the sensing...
Silicon IC Folds, Stretches
Mar. 27, 2008
Integrating electronic materials with ultrathin plastic and rubber-like substrates has resulted in...
MRI Reveals Tumor Patterns
Mar. 26, 2008
A noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method has the potential to determine how tumors...
Tiny Biosensor to Detect DNA
Mar. 26, 2008
A biosensing nanodevice powered by a tiny enzyme motor may one day eliminate long airport security...
Each Photon Sends 1.63 Bits
Mar. 25, 2008
The record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon has been broken in new...
Sun Wins $44M to Speed Chips
Mar. 24, 2008
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced today it has received $44 million to speed computing by...
Graphene In, Silicon Out?
Mar. 24, 2008
Graphene's ability to conduct electricity has been found to be higher than any other known material...
Nanotech Drives TE Boost
Mar. 21, 2008
Nanotechnology has been used to crush and then reconstitute a classic semiconductor used in...
Sensor Traces DIY Bombs
Mar. 21, 2008
A penny-sized electronic sensor is capable of sniffing out hydrogen peroxide vapor in the...
Unidym Forms Bioscience Unit
Mar. 21, 2008
Carbon nanotube maker Unidym Inc. announced this week it has formed a spinoff, Ensysce Biosciences...
'Small' Science Awarded
Mar. 20, 2008
Frank Ruess, PhD, a researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia,...
Block Sought on Imports
Mar. 20, 2008
A retired Columbia University professor alleges that 34 major electronics manufacturers in Asia and...
Swift Team Finds Bright Burst
Mar. 20, 2008
Astronomers have found by far the most distant object ever seen by the naked eye -- a gamma ray...
Hi-Fi Optic Analysis Shown
Mar. 19, 2008
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with spinoff company...
A Camera with 12,616 Lenses
Mar. 19, 2008
A digital camera is being developed with 12,616 microlenses -- each in effect a tiny camera -- that...
Luminus LEDs to Surpass TVs
Mar. 19, 2008
Luminus Devices Inc., a maker of light sources for the TV and display industry, said the $72...
East Meets West at PICALO
Mar. 18, 2008
Opportunities for laser business in China and the impact of globalization on the laser industry...
Si MEMS Record Set
Mar. 18, 2008
A device that generates a 4.5-GHz signal, the highest achieved in silicon, has been developed at...
Photons on Demand
Mar. 18, 2008
A device uses the unique properties of diamonds to produce single photons on demand at room...
Bankrupt Diomed to Sell
Mar. 17, 2008
Diomed Holdings Inc., a developer of minimally invasive medical laser technologies, announced it...
Nano Switch Routes Light
Mar. 17, 2008
Using light pulses instead of electrons to send information inside a computer chip may be more...
UUL Could Replace Chemo
Mar. 14, 2008
Femtosecond lasers have entered a "new era" of applications. The ultrafast, ultraintense laser, or...
SC Grown in Optical Fiber
Mar. 13, 2008
An international science team has added new electronic capabilities to optical fibers by growing a...
HRL to Make Phaser Cell
Mar. 13, 2008
HRL Laboratories LLC will demonstrate a programmable radio-frequency photonic filter with a $1.5...
Laser Adds Wood Grain to MDF
Mar. 13, 2008
A laser has been used to give the inexpensive building material MDF, or medium density fiberboard,...
Flir Award Tops $57M
Mar. 12, 2008
Thermal imaging systems maker Flir Systems Inc. announced today that it has been awarded orders...
More Exact Than an Ion Clock
Mar. 11, 2008
An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of...
MEMS Center Awarded $17M
Mar. 11, 2008
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will award $17 million over the next five years...
Sensors Monitor Drug Usage
Mar. 10, 2008
A sensor necklace that records the exact time and date when pills are swallowed and reminds the...
Unruly Electrons Quieted
Mar. 10, 2008
Noise in graphene-based semiconductor devices can, in fact, be suppressed, it has been discovered....
Fab Method Aids Biodetectors
Mar. 10, 2008
A more flexible way of making diagnostic chips may hold the key to producing tiny medical devices...
Virus Imaged in Great Detail
Mar. 6, 2008
Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy, also known as cryo-EM, has been used to capture a 3-D...
Kilogram Definition Weighed
Mar. 5, 2008
The kilogram is losing weight, and many in standard-measurement circles believe it should be...
Ball to Study Laser Effects
Mar. 5, 2008
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a five-year, $42 million research and...
Kodak Acquiring Software Firm
Mar. 5, 2008
Eastman Kodak Co. announced it is acquiring Connecticut-based workflow software developer...
Lab Beats Guinness Record
Mar. 5, 2008
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been confirmed by Guinness...
Biomagnetics Eyed for Tests
Mar. 4, 2008
A device that combines magnetic nanoparticles with an extremely sensitive magnetic microscope could...
Agilent to Buy Till Photonics
Mar. 4, 2008
Agilent Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., announced this week it has signed an agreement to...
Inkjet Solar Cells Demo'd
Mar. 4, 2008
Konarka Technologies Inc. said it has demonstrated for the first time the making of solar cells by...
Particles' Surprising Moves
Mar. 3, 2008
Microscopic Janus particles -- spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different -- have...
Zygo Buys Solvision
Mar. 3, 2008
Zygo Corp. said it has entered the semiconductor back-end inspection market by acquiring...