Optimistic Mood on Show Floor
Jan. 30, 2009
“Cautiously optimistic” was a phrase heard a lot in the aisles of the Photonics West 2009...
Prism Award Winners Unveiled
Jan. 29, 2009
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of...
Record-Small Quantum Dots
Jan. 28, 2009
Researchers at the National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta have...
Ethics and Nanotechnology
Jan. 28, 2009
Recent action in Congress to reauthorize the US federal nanotechnology research program offers the...
StockerYale Expands SOF Unit
Jan. 27, 2009
On opening day of SPIE Photonics West 2009, StockerYale Inc., a manufacturer of structured light...
Glowing Proteins See Cells
Jan. 27, 2009
New fluorescent proteins have been discovered that allow scientists to noninvasively visualize the...
Biomedical Optics Crowd Is Huge
Jan. 27, 2009
SPIE Photonics West 2009 is once again drawing a large regional and international crowd to learn...
Spiral Microlasers Theorized
Jan. 26, 2009
Theoretically, disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information...
Dynasil Pens $5.6M Contract
Jan. 26, 2009
Photonic products manufacturer Dynasil Corp. of America has announced that Radiation Monitoring...
Drell to Present at WiO
Jan. 23, 2009
The first hard x-ray free electron laser (FEL) will be turned on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator...
OSHA Cites, Fines Laser Lab
Jan. 23, 2009
The University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was cited by the Occupational...
Device Filters Photons
Jan. 23, 2009
Quantum technologies just got a boost from a recent demonstration of an optical device that filters...
Intel Closing Five Plants
Jan. 22, 2009
Microchip maker Intel Corp. has announced that it will stop production at five facilities in Asia...
Stretchable Electronics
Jan. 22, 2009
A new design for stretchable electronics that could be used to improve eye cameras, smart surgical...
Cell Imaging with Liquid Stem
Jan. 21, 2009
A new imaging method has emerged that allows scientists to see cell molecules more clearly.
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Bleeding Hearts Revealed
Jan. 21, 2009
Images now reveal bleeding that occurs within the heart after a patient has suffered a heart...
Graphene's Nature Controlled
Jan. 21, 2009
Researchers now can tune graphene’s electrical properties by growing it on different surfaces, a...
OFC/NFOEC 2009
Jan. 20, 2009
Featuring technology from around the world and every sector of optical communications, the Optical...
Rohm and Haas Cuts 900 More
Jan. 20, 2009
Specialty chemicals maker Rohm and Haas Co. today announced it will cut another 900 jobs, idle or...
$1B Boost for Neutron Science
Jan. 19, 2009
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has given initial approval to plans for a second target station...
NIST Funds Sensor Research
Jan. 16, 2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced nine awards for new...
New LED Drops the 'Droop'
Jan. 15, 2009
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed and demonstrated a new type of...
New Cloak vs. Cloak Classic
Jan. 15, 2009
A new type of device that can render an object invisible in visual light has been revealed by the...
Lasers Help Restore Amazon
Jan. 15, 2009
A 2000-year-old painted Roman statue thought to represent an Amazon warrior is being restored to...
Flexi Detectors Sharpen Pics
Jan. 14, 2009
The photo distortion created by conventional photo lenses could be eliminated by new curved...
Seeing Machine for the Blind
Jan. 14, 2009
A visually challenged MIT poet has unveiled a “seeing machine” that allows some people who are...
3-D MRI Extends to Nanoscale
Jan. 13, 2009
The creation of a microscopy tool with ultrahigh resolution, combined with an advanced 3-D image...
Wireless Grippers Grab Cells
Jan. 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices that can be used to grab and...
Prism Awards Finalists
Jan. 13, 2009
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of...
Abbott Acquires AMO
Jan. 12, 2009
Abbott and Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) have announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to...
Group Assails Project's EMFs
Jan. 12, 2009
A coalition of seven counties and five citizens' groups has filed testimony with the New York...
Dreadlocks with Kung Fu Grip
Jan. 9, 2009
Researchers have found that dunking synthetic, nanosize hairs into a liquid and allowing the liquid...
Grand Canyon Goes Solar
Jan. 8, 2009
The Grand Canyon’s Visitor Center, located near the Canyon’s south rim, soon will have a portion of...
ON Semi Cuts Jobs, Lowers Outlook
Jan. 8, 2009
ON Semiconductor Corp. said it will cut 1500 jobs, speed up factory closures, initiate a hiring...
Emcore Sells Shares of WWAT
Jan. 8, 2009
Emcore Corp., a provider of semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber...
Triphoton Squeezed to Limit
Jan. 7, 2009
A new technique squeezes light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential...
Fake Light Fools Critters
Jan. 7, 2009
Animals that rely on light cues to navigate their environment are being affected by man-made light...
Repulsive Casimir Measured
Jan. 7, 2009
For the first time, physicists have measured a repulsive Casimir force that could be tailored for a...
StockerYale Inks Biomed Deal
Jan. 7, 2009
StockerYale Inc. announced it has signed its largest biomedical contract to date, a...
Viking Trade Route Revealed
Jan. 6, 2009
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have analyzed the contents of...
'Superbug' Zapper Tested
Jan. 6, 2009
A technology that uses a narrow spectrum of visible light to photodynamically inactivate the deadly...
Luminetx Sues AccuVein
Jan. 5, 2009
Hailed by Time magazine as one of "The Most Amazing Inventions of 2004," the VeinViewer from...
FEI Acquires Intellection
Jan. 5, 2009
High-resolution imaging and analysis systems maker FEI Co. announced that it has acquired...
3-D DNA Nanotubes
Jan. 2, 2009
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have revealed, for the first time, three-dimensional...
Light Spots Cellular Suicide
Jan. 2, 2009
Bioengineers now are using scattered light to help determine whether cancer cells are responding to...