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Sound Camera Ready to Hit the Market
DAEJEON, South Korea, May 14, 2013 — You can hear rattling inside your car, but you can’t tell where it’s coming from or how serious it is. A new sound camera potentially could save you the trip to the mechanic by pinpointing the exact location of the noise with color contours.
Underwater Laser Imager Uses Separate Platform Approach
PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 14, 2013 — In underwater laser imaging systems, the transmitter and receiver usually are on the same platform, but a new method that places the devices on separate platforms could enhance their performance in murky water.
Copper Doping Produces Perfect QDs
CHICAGO, May 13, 2013 — A procedure that reliably produces perfect quantum dots, each doped with exactly four copper ions, has opened up possibilities for fine-tuning the nanocrystals’ optical properties and producing spectacular colors.
Solar Cell Material Made in the Microwave
SALT LAKE CITY, May 13, 2013 — Most people use microwaves to reheat leftovers, and some even experiment with marshmallows, inflating them like a balloon; but what if you could use the same home oven to make solar cells?
Optical Gratings Could Make Quantum Tech Portable
GLASGOW, Scotland, & LONDON, May 10, 2013 — A microfabricated chip that produces ultracold atoms could lead to portable, ultraprecise clocks and quantum sensors. Many of the most accurate measurement devices, including atomic clocks, work by observing how atoms transfer between individual...
UK Health Care Investment Includes Fiber Optics
EDINBURGH, Scotland, and SWINDON, England, May 10, 2013 — The development of fiber optic sensors that monitor the condition of intensive care patients is among the projects that will benefit from a £32 million (about $49 million) investment, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
Moon-Shaped Metamaterial Broadens Manipulatable Bandwidths
STANFORD, Calif., May 9, 2013 — A new engineered broadband material crafted from artificial atoms more than doubles the range of light wavelengths that can be manipulated by such metamaterials, a development that could lead to perfect microscope lenses or invisibility cloaks....
Spin-controlled Photonics Could Streamline Communications Components
HAIFA, Israel, May 9, 2013 — A new class of metamaterials with the potential to control the spread of light more easily could help in the design of more streamlined components for communications technology. The components used today in communications technology are bulky and...
Chaos Overcomes Order ... for Light Storage
SAUDI ARABIA, YORK, England, and ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 8, 2013 — The word "chaos" almost always has a negative connotation, but physicists say it can be a good thing — at least where light storage is concerned. Researchers from the universities of York and St. Andrews, led by King Abdullah University of...
Element Six, TU Delft Reach Diamond Quantum Network Milestone
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2013 — Synthetic diamond maker Element Six, working in collaboration with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, entangled quantum bits, or qubits, in two synthetic diamonds separated in space — a step toward enabling new, quantum-based...
Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency Hits 8.9 Percent
ULSAN, South Korea, May 8, 2013 — The highly purified silicon crystal used in today’s commercial solar cells could be replaced with more economical, disposable, polymer-based materials if their efficiency and stability could be improved. A team at Ulsan National Institute of...
Invisibility Cloaks to Become DIY?
DURHAM, N.C., May 7, 2013 — Invisibility cloaks, first demonstrated in complex lab experiments at Duke University seven years ago, could become much simpler to create using 3-D printing, a Duke engineer believes. "I would argue that essentially anyone who can spend a couple...
Optical Thread Thwarts Designer Knockoffs
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 7, 2013 — A thread with optical properties can be used to create invisible patterns in fabric and is seen as a potential way to differentiate designer clothing from knockoffs. Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods has exploded in the past few years, not only...
Societies Name Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2013 — Two PhD candidates at the University of Colorado at Boulder will serve as 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows, the optics and photonics societies OSA, SPIE and the Materials Research Society (MRS) announced Tuesday. Both one-year...
After Fusion Failure, NIF Shifts Priorities
LIVERMORE, Calif., May 6, 2013 — Having failed to achieve fusion by its target date, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is shifting its priorities and has replaced longtime director Dr. Edward Moses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Parney Albright announced last...
Laser-based System Detects Asbestos in Real Time
HATFIELD, England, May 6, 2013 — Asbestos, once considered a miracle material because of its fire resistance, annually kills 100,000 people worldwide who inhale its fibers. Although banned in many industrialized countries since the 1980s, the threat lingers on in ceilings, walls...
Tomato Yield Not Affected by LED-Lit Greenhouses
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 6, 2013 — LED-equipped greenhouses can grow the same number of off-season tomatoes as those outfitted with traditional lighting, but using a lot less energy, a new Purdue University study finds. The average tomato is shipped about 1500 miles from a warmer...
Herschel Closes Its Eyes
PASADENA, Calif., and LONGUEUIL, Quebec, Canada, May 3, 2013 — After making more than 35,000 observations and logging more than 25,000 hours of studying previously invisible celestial objects, the Herschel Space Observatory has exhausted its supply of liquid helium and will close its eyes on the universe.
Qubits’ Quantum State Controlled by Laser Light
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 3, 2013 — The quantum state of a single atomic-sized defect in diamond — known as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center — can be manipulated with laser light, providing more unified control and versatility than conventional processes. The discovery opens up the...
Laser Pulses Wirelessly Link Atomic Clocks
BOULDER, Colo., May 2, 2013 — Laser pulses were transferred through open air with an unprecedented precision equivalent to the “ticking” of the world’s best next-generation atomic clocks. The demonstration showed how such devices at different locations could be linked wirelessly...
Light Controls Cell Behavior
ST. LOUIS, May 2, 2013 — Light-sensitive proteins in cells can be coaxed to move toward a beam of light, a first step toward manipulating cells to control insulin secretion or heart rate using light, a new study out of Washington University School of Medicine has found.
Partnership to Offer Advanced Silicon Photonics
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., May 2, 2013 — A partnership between research institutes and a European Union consortium aims to advance silicon photonics production.
Camera Mimics an Insect’s Compound Eyes
URBANA, Ill., May 1, 2013 — A hemispherical-shaped digital camera that mimics the design of ocular systems found in arthropods offers a wide-angle bug’s-eye view and nearly infinite depth of field for applications ranging from advanced surveillance cameras to miniaturized...
Carbon nanotube detector works in the infrared at room temperature
HOUSTON – A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond visible wavelengths, a finding that promises to make possible a unique set of optoelectronic devices, solar cells and maybe even specialized cameras....
Graphene highly efficient at converting light to electricity
BARCELONA, Spain – Graphene is even more efficient at converting light to electricity than was previously known, making it an ideal building block for any device that relies on such conversions, a new international study has found. Researchers at the Institute of...

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