Aug 14, 2002 — YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., August 14 -- IBM and Nion Co. researchers have developed technology that extends the capabilities of the electron microscope to look at small, atomic-scale details in materials -- such as those used in manufacturing semiconductors -- at a resolution never As reported in the August 8 issue of Nature, for the past 50 years electron optics engineers have sought to improve the precision of electron microscopes by counteracting the image-blurring effects of lens...

Aug 1, 2002 — Video cameras find use in many automatic inspection applications, from checking the construction of automobiles to scanning microscope specimens for cancerous cells. Often it is important to inspect color as well as other attributes of a product;...

Aug 1, 2002 — Researchers from the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser and the University of Athens, both in Greece, and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have reported the formation of patterns in homogeneous polymer...

Aug 1, 2002 — A research group at Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and at IMEC vzw in Louvain, Belgium, has demonstrated an optical technique that could provide needed materials data for the development of spintronics, leading to...

Aug 1, 2002 — Researchers at Max Planck Institut für Biochemie report that lattice vibrations of polar dielectrics can enhance optical near-field coupling in the infrared. Described in the July 11 issue of Nature, the article notes that resonant coupling with...

Aug 1, 2002 — One may not think that space-borne telescopes would need much protection from outside elements, but electrons and protons caught in the Earth's magnetic field can have damaging effects on the dielectric coatings of the telescopes' lenses....

Aug 1, 2002 — A procedure combining optical-beam-induced current imaging and scanning confocal microscopy has produced high-contrast images of semiconductor sites on an integrated chip. Although imaging optically induced current is an effective method for...

Jul 11, 2002 — LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 11 -- Purdue University will lead a new institute for nanoelectronics and computing, a group of six universities that will develop high-performance technologies for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The...

Jul 1, 2002 — The first man-made single-molecule machine has proved it can do mechanical work, according to its German builders. Hermann Gaub, a researcher with the University of Munich's Nanoscience Center and a member of the project team that developed the...

Jul 1, 2002 — Scientists at Seoul National University in Korea and at the University of Tokyo have developed a technique with which they can perform high-resolution photoluminescence microscopy of high-density InAs/GaAs quantum dots. The work promises to advance...

Jun 1, 2002 — Thanks to researchers at the University of Toronto, photonic applications one day could run on groovy crystals. The crystals -- composed of colloidal spheres deposited on a grooved substrate -- could enable the creation of integrated photonic...

Jun 1, 2002 — The use of optical fields to trap and manipulate particles is finding applications from atomic and nonlinear physics to biology. Most of the applications thus far, however, have involved particles no smaller than a micron in diameter. Now...

Jun 1, 2002 — Photonic bandgap crystals serve as a microcosm of the photonics industry: Although microscopic in structure, their versatility in manipulating photons could have a huge and pervasive impact on nearly all optical components and instrumentation,...

May 23, 2002 — LONG BEACH, Calif., May 23 -- Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are developing a flexible, fiber optic confocal microscope capable of imaging precancerous lesions in the cervix and oral cavity without the need for invasive and...

May 22, 2002 — LONG BEACH, Calif., May 22 -- Using a special semiconductor holographic film, researchers at Purdue University have created the world's first real-time holographic fly-through of living tissue using infrared light. Purdue researchers Ping Yu and...

May 1, 2002 — Designing devices that incorporate ultrathin films is an important means of enhancing yields. However, characterizing ultrathin films can be extremely challenging for mainstream metrology tools such as ellipsometers, interferometers and...

May 1, 2002 — Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy allows viewing of live biological samples -- without photoluminescent labeling or staining -- by using three laser beams to induce electromagnetic vibrational signals from a sample. However, it...

May 1, 2002 — Spontaneous self-assembly has been a primary approach to the production of nanoparticles. But researchers at Southampton University in the UK and Moscow State University in Russia, led by Southampton physics professor Nikolay I. Zheludev, have found...

May 1, 2002 — Scientists from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have examined the formation of dark spots in organic LEDs caused by dome-shaped bubbles at the interface between an emissive and nonemissive diode layer. Using the...

May 1, 2002 — Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been gaining ground in a variety of applications, including telecommunications. Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, working in conjunction with Cielo Communications Inc. of...

May 1, 2002 — Roper Scientific, Inc. has announced the release of the Photometrics CascadeO digital imaging system for low-light applications. The new Cascade:650 high-performance CCD camera features signal-boosting "on-chip multiplication gain" technology...

May 1, 2002 — The absence of an accepted standard for microlens wafer formats, which may include microlenses ranging from microns to several millimeters in size, has resulted in a demand for profilometers that can satisfy the metrology requirements of...

May 1, 2002 — Two-photon absorption tech-niques that have proved beneficial to biological imaging are spilling over into the industrial realm. Researchers at Osaka University in Suita, Japan, are using two-photon absorption to create polymer structures with...

Apr 10, 2002 — WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 10 -- Computer chip manufacturers could eventually save millions of dollars in downtime every year by using lasers to quickly identify and pinpoint the sources of contaminating dust and other defects, according to...

Apr 4, 2002 — GARDNER, Mass., April 4 -- Precision Optics Corp. Inc. said it has shipped an initial production lot of its autoclavable endoscopes. The shipments are pursuant to a new strategic relationship with a major orthopedic equipment supplier. The company...