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Photonics.com Weekly: Fish-Inspired Fractals Guide Optical Coating Design (1/21/2016)

Photonics.com Weekly: Fish-Inspired Fractals Guide Optical Coating Design
Fish scales could serve as a model for better broadband reflectors and custom multispectral filters.
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
       
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Fish-Inspired Fractals Guide Optical Coating Design
Fish-Inspired Fractals Guide Optical Coating Design
Fish scales could serve as a model for better broadband reflectors and custom multispectral filters. The shiny skins of certain ribbonfish reflect light across a broad range of wavelengths, giving them a brilliant metallic appearance.
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World Economic Forum Names Solar Film Firm a Tech Pioneer
World Economic Forum Names Solar Film Firm a Tech Pioneer
Organic flexible solar film producer Heliatek GmbH will present its technology at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters this month.
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Lasering Leaves Improves Treatment of Citrus Greening
Lasering Leaves Improves Treatment of Citrus Greening
A treatment involving laser marking has improved the success of antibiotics in treating a disease that has been ravaging Florida’s citrus crops for a decade. Laser marking leaves with 250-µm-diameter indentations significantly enhanced the penetration of foliar-applied substances.
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Red LED Optimization Reveals Oxygen’s Role in Optoelectronics
Red LED Optimization Reveals Oxygen’s Role in Optoelectronics
Investigation of oxygen’s contradictory role in optoelectronics has led to a method to fine-tune the performance of europium (Eu) -doped gallium nitride (GaN) devices, which could provide the red colors in LEDs and other displays.
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Nanoengraving Technique Uses Chemical Etching to Achieve 100-nm Resolution
Nanoengraving Technique Uses Chemical Etching to Achieve 100-nm Resolution
A femtosecond laser deposition mechanism has achieved patterns on glass with 100-nm resolution. The method could allow quick and inexpensive production of nanoscale sensors and chips.
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SPIE Advanced Lithography
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Feb. 21-25 - San Jose, Calif.
This lithography industry conference and exhibition draws more than 2,300 attendees, 50 exhibitors and 600 technical papers. Topics include extreme-ultraviolet (EUV); alternative technologies; metrology, inspection and process control; advances in patterning materials and processes; optical microlithography; optimization of design, process and technology for manufacturability; and etch technology for nanopatterning.
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CMOS-Integrated Nanophotonics Technologies for Short-Reach Communications Links
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Thursday, Jan. 28, 1-2 p.m. EST
This webinar will provide an overview of monolithic front-end-integrated electronic/nanophotonic CMOS technology that has been developed at IBM for single-mode optical short-reach transceivers at data rates up to 25 Gb/s.

Presenter Douglas Gill is a research staff member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he works on electro-optic systems monolithically integrated within CMOS electronics.
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