Imaging Critical for Space Shuttle Re-entry
May. 30, 2008
On Saturday, May 31, 2008, the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled for lift-off from the Kennedy...
Films Reveal Explosives
May. 30, 2008
New spray-on films that glow blue under ultraviolet light and can distinguish between different...
Tower Cuts 170 Jobs
May. 29, 2008
Chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has cut 170 jobs -- about 11 percent of its work force -- as...
Theory Applies to All Lasers
May. 29, 2008
Unlike standard lasers, nanofabricated diffusive random lasers (DRLs) don't contain mirrors to trap...
Leica MS Buys Bal-Tec
May. 28, 2008
Leica Microsystems Inc. announced it has acquired Liechtenstein, Germany-based Bal-Tec AG, a maker...
Optical Pacemaker
May. 28, 2008
According to a study published in the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) Optics Express, a group of...
Nano Pioneers Awarded $1M
May. 28, 2008
Scientists from the US and Japan who discovered quantum dots and carbon nanotubes, respectively,...
SCs Share Magnetism
May. 28, 2008
New iron-based superconductors share similar unusual magnetic properties with previously known...
Light Powers Nanobrake
May. 27, 2008
A tiny light-powered "molecular brake" that works at room temperature has been developed by...
Gold Nanoparticles Fight HIV
May. 27, 2008
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that gold nanoparticles are helping...
Photonics North Topics Set
May. 27, 2008
The most rapidly evolving markets and how photonics will provide solutions to problems of global...
Particles Detect Cancer
May. 27, 2008
The smallest magnetic nanoparticles created to date can be sent on such seek-and-find missions for...
Lasers to Map Mayan Ruins
May. 23, 2008
Archaeology -- often slow-paced, precise work unless your name is Indiana Jones -- is going high...
Star Death Seen From Start
May. 22, 2008
Images captured by NASA's Swift satellite have allowed an international team of astronomers to...
Wide-Ranging Crystals
May. 22, 2008
Crystals with a tunability range of as much as 460 nm -- about triple those of earlier crystals --...
IR Laser Efficiency Doubled
May. 21, 2008
The efficiency of certain infrared lasers has been doubled, making them more useful for...
Vulcan Heats Volumes
May. 21, 2008
Laser fusion is a step closer after intense laser pulses from the Vulcan petawatt laser facility...
Nanotubes the New Asbestos?
May. 21, 2008
Nanotubes may be tiny, but they are super strong carbon fibers that play an important role in the...
Chemical Laser Fired
May. 21, 2008
Boeing Co. reported it fired a high-energy chemical laser last week aboard a C-130H aircraft in...
Beetle Scales Ideal Crystals
May. 20, 2008
The ideal photonic crystal, a diamond-like structure that manipulates visible light, has eluded...
Flir Award Tops $45M
May. 20, 2008
Flir Systems Inc. announced today it has been awarded a performance-based logistics (PBL) support...
Omega Laser - Petawatt Power
May. 20, 2008
The Omega EP has quadrillion watts of power that can focus on a target just a millimeter across....
Computers Use Quantum Photonics
May. 19, 2008
What was once considered more theoretical than practical, computers based on the powerful...
StockerYale Pursues Virtek
May. 19, 2008
StockerYale has offered to buy Waterloo, Ontario-based Virtek Vision International Inc. for $22...
Component Channels LED Light
May. 19, 2008
LEDs are more energy-efficient than light bulbs, but fall short when it comes to light output. But...
Laser THz Source Demo'd
May. 19, 2008
A room-temperature electrically pumped semiconductor laser source of terahertz (THz) radiation,...
Fujitsu to Spin Off Photonics
May. 16, 2008
Fujitsu Ltd. said it will spin off, through a simple absorption-type separation, its photonics...
Ultrathin Films Resist Bacteria
May. 16, 2008
Inexpensive, easy-to-produce, ultrathin films made of polymers could be applied to medical devices...
Planetary 3-D Roadmaps
May. 16, 2008
A team of researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) led by scientist Donald Figer, are...
Leica Micro Buys Coretech
May. 16, 2008
Leica Microsystems announced today it acquired, on May 14, the assets of St. Louis, Mo.-based...
IPG Unveils CO2 Gas Lasers
May. 15, 2008
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics of Oxford, Mass., said it has developed a line of CO2 gas lasers...
Photonic System Wins $4.3M
May. 15, 2008
Electrical engineers at the University of Southern California (USC) have received $4.3 million to...
Laser Melts Chip Defects
May. 15, 2008
As microchips shrink, even tiny defects in the lines, dots and other shapes etched on them become...
JDSU OKs Stock Buyback
May. 15, 2008
JDSU said today its board has authorized a program to repurchase up to $200,000,000 of its common...
LED Lasers Cost Less
May. 14, 2008
Plastic lasers that convert light from LEDs and can be tuned to every color of the rainbow can be...
Fabs Assess Quake Damage
May. 13, 2008
Semiconductor manufacturers with plants in Chengdu were still assessing damage today in the wake of...
GaN Transistor Bests Silicon
May. 13, 2008
A new gallium nitride (GaN) -based transistor, the first GaN metal/oxide semiconductor field-effect...
Lasers Align Molecules
May. 13, 2008
Scientists have eliminated the need to crystallize human proteins for synchrotron x-ray diffraction...
Complicated Pulses Measured
May. 12, 2008
A device that reveals spherical aberrations in optical components could help biologists, chemists,...
Nanowires Fabbed on Silicon
May. 9, 2008
Nanowire devices have been fabricated by integrating silicon integrated circuits (ICs)...
Robot Scans Silver Mine
May. 9, 2008
A laser scanning robot named 3D-R1 captured more than 5 GBs of data used to create a...
Light Mapped Through Holes
May. 9, 2008
The question of how light squeezes through small holes has been answered by a research team...
The X Flies
May. 9, 2008
This year's CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) at the McEnery Convention Center in San...
FDA OKs NIR Plaque Imager
May. 8, 2008
A device that lets a doctor see inside a blood vessel to assess the fat content of plaque in...
IPG Sales Up 27%
May. 8, 2008
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. reported this week that its revenues for the first quarter of...
Transistor Inventor Dies
May. 8, 2008
Morgan Sparks, inventor of the first practical transistor and a former director of Sandia National...
Display Week Lineup Viewed
May. 7, 2008
Three-dimensional display technologies -- including Hollywood's use of stereoscopic 3-D in...
Solder Bumping Improves Lens
May. 7, 2008
A solder technique used in electronics manufacturing is proving useful in keeping optical device...
Biosensors Like Bloodhounds
May. 6, 2008
Olfactory cells are being integrated into tiny microsystems to give them a bloodhound-like ability...
Birds May Use Molecular GPS
May. 5, 2008
A sophisticated molecule may be what drives a bird's internal global positioning system (GPS)....
Graphene-based LCDs Devised
May. 2, 2008
Highly transparent and highly conductive ultrathin films have been produced by dissolving chunks of...
Kodak Posts $114M Loss
May. 1, 2008
Eastman Kodak Co. today reported a first-quarter loss of $114 million, or 40 cents a share, on...
Faro Buys DPI Rights
May. 1, 2008
Faro Technologies Inc., a maker of portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software,...