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Dimpled Displays and Sensors

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Hank Hogan

Exploiting an accidental discovery, researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., have demonstrated a method to produce bright color fields over large surfaces, creating any color desired in areas as small as 100 μm2. The technique, which depends upon optical interference from arrays of submicron dimples, could be used to make displays, lab-on-a-chip liquid flow monitors and index-of-refraction change sensors. Color changes resulting from fluid changes can be used to read out a microfluidic sensor or could...Read full article

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    Published: March 2007
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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