Photonics.com: News and Features http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?PageID=1 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. Keithley Sells RF to Agilent Electronic test systems maker Keithley Instruments Inc. announced Thursday that it is selling its radio-frequency product line to Agilent Technologies http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40459 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT QDs Improve Medical Imaging Changes in a living cell that take place over a long period of time are difficult to scrutinize and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new r http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40401 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Light Moves Nanostructures With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 mW of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 n http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40392 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Complex Solar Surface Imaged The Sunrise balloon-borne telescope, a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau and http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40388 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Virtual Cloaking Unveiled Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a virtual visualization tool that can show what a partially or completely clo http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40377 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Mess-Free Graphene Growth Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semiconducting – and notoriously difficult and expensive http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40380 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Light Squeezed Even Tighter Scientists have proved that light can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than previously thought possible, a breakthrough that could change the worl http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40373 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Laser Charts Green Protein Green fluorescent proteins (GFP) have replaced many dyes in biological studies because they are non-toxic and, when attached to a gene and inserted in http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40368 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Applied Cutting 1300+ Jobs In the wake of posting a net loss of $305 million for 2009, chip-making equipment manufacturer Applied Materials said it will cut between 1300 and 150 http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40369 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Finding Life in Martian Ice With barren ice sheets and freezing winds, Antarctica might seem an unusually sterile and harsh environment in which to look for life. But within the http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=40362 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT