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MOEMS/MEMS Plenary: Power to the Pathway
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2011 — Amit Lal envisions a day when tiny wireless sensor networks will be placed throughout the world in areas that can help save lives, prevent disasters, and even help sustain the environment, with a battery-free power supply that will last 100 years. Lal explained how the work of his group could help make that happen in his MOEMS/MEMS Symposium plenary talk, "Microsystem Pathways to a Greener World," Monday morning at SPIE Photonics West. Lal, an associate professor in the school of electrical ...
Telescope Calibration Reveals Universe
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 25, 2011 — The accelerating expansion of the universe is one of the mysteries plaguing astrophysics, and somewhere in distant galaxies are yet-unseen supernovae that may hold the key. Now, thanks to a telescope calibrated by scientists from the National...
Dyes Improve Solar Technologies
BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 24, 2011 — A new class of photosensitizing dyes that increase the efficiency of light-driven systems has been synthesized by chemists at the University at Buffalo. With the ability to produce two kinds of green energy—solar electricity and...
JILA Upgrades Terahertz Source
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 24, 2011 — JILA researchers have developed a laser-based source of terahertz radiation that is unusually efficient and less prone to damage than similar systems. The technology might be useful in applications such as detecting trace gases or imaging weapons in...
LCD Projector Controls Tiny Worms
ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2011 — Researchers are using inexpensive components from ordinary LCD projectors to control the brain and muscles of tiny organisms, including freely moving worms. Red, green and blue lights from a projector activate light-sensitive microbial proteins that...
New Reactor Boosts Solar Power
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2011 — Using a common metal most famously found in self-cleaning ovens, Sossina Haile hopes to change our energy future. The metal is cerium oxide — or ceria — and it is the centerpiece of a promising new technology developed by Haile and her...
NIST Advances Single Photon for Quantum Computers
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 21, 2011 — Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have brought science closer to creating reliable sources of photons for the long-awaited quantum computer. In principle, quantum computers can perform calculations that...
Sensor Finds Fire Sources
WACHTBURG, Germany, Jan. 21, 2011 — Forest fires usually spread out of control very quickly. Fires that produce a lot of smoke are particularly challenging for the emergency services, because the source of the fire is then especially hard to find. A new radiometric sensor can pinpoint...
Imaging Between a Rock and a Hard Tooth
EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 20, 2011 — Here’s something to chew on: An imaging technique sensitive enough to be used at the atomic scale has been used for the first time to create 3-D maps of the teeth of chitons – a class of marine mollusks that can literally chew rock...
Nanorope Advances Self-assembling Nanomaterials
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 — Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity of biological materials. X-ray...
QD Vision Produces Highest-Res QD-Based Active Matrix Display
WATERTOWN, Mass., Jan. 20, 2011 — QD Vision Inc. has announced demonstration of the world’s highest-resolution quantum dot-based active matrix display. The US Army commissioned the project under a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research Program. The portable...
Solar3D to Develop 3-D Solar Cell
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 20, 2011 — Solar3D Inc., a developer of 3-D solar cell technology that maximizes the conversion of sunlight into electricity, has announced details of its plan for the development of its solar cell. “By combining microphotovoltaics with advanced...
Energetiq Appoints Distributor for UK, Ireland
WOBURN, Mass., Jan. 19, 2011 — Energetiq Technology Inc., an ultrahigh-brightness light source manufacturer, announced the appointment of Elliot Scientific Ltd. as its distributor in the UK and Ireland for its range of laser-driven light source (LDLS) products. Elliot...
Light Touch Transforms Material into Superconductor
OXFORD, England, Jan. 19, 2011 — One hundred years after superconductivity was first observed in 1911, a team from Oxford, Germany and Japan observed conclusive signatures of superconductivity after hitting a non-superconductor with a strong burst of laser light. “We have...
Deep Brain Imaged for Months at a Time
STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011 — Travel just one millimeter inside the brain and you'll be stepping into the dark. Standard light microscopes don't allow researchers to look into the interior of the living brain, where memories are formed and diseases such as dementia and...
Oxford Spinoff Develops New Solar Technology
OXFORD, England, Jan. 18, 2011 — An Oxford University spinoff has developed new solar cell technology that is manufactured from cheap, abundant, nontoxic and noncorrosive materials and can be scaled to any volume. Harnessing the sun’s energy, the solar cells are printed...
MRI Advance Speeds Brain Scans
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 17, 2011 — A breakthrough in magnetic resonance imaging that allows brain scans more than seven times faster than currently possible was reported by an international team of physicists and neuroscientists. A University of California, Berkeley physicist...
A New Twist on the E-beam
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 14, 2011 — Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, at tiny levels of detail. Now, researchers at the...
Group to Develop Stroke Sensor
MONS, Belgium, Jan. 14, 2011 — The P3SENS consortium has been formed to develop an immunoassay detection device suitable for emergency stroke diagnosis. Co-funded by the Seventh EU Framework Program, the €3.6 million project will develop photonic crystal technology for...
Laser Equipment Helping to Restore Historic Aircraft
EAST GRANBY, Conn., Jan. 13, 2011 — Joining Technologies, a laser cladding, electron beam and laser welding applications company, announced its laser equipment is helping to restore worn-out parts and components of Connecticut’s official state aircraft — the F4U Corsair as...
Photons vs. Protons in Radiation Therapy
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2011 — A study comparing the long-term outcomes of patients with spinal-cord tumors after radiation therapy suggests that certain subsets of patients have better long-term survival. It also suggests that photon-based radiation therapy may result in better...
B&W Tek Opens New European Office in Germany
NEWARK, Del., Jan. 12, 2011 — B&W Tek Inc. announced the opening of its fourth office in the world, B&W Tek Europe, based in Lübeck, Germany. The new location will help the company to capitalize on its expanding European market, it said. Fully staffed, the new...
‘Liquid Pistons’ May Advance Camera Lenses
TROY, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2011 — A few unassuming drops of liquid locked in a very precise game of "follow the leader" could one day be found in mobile phone cameras, medical imaging equipment, implantable drug delivery devices, and even implantable eye lenses. Engineering...
4.5 Billion Years of History Illuminated by LEDs
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11, 2011 — After five years of restoration, modernization and seismic retrofitting, the historic Rotunda building of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum in July 2010 reopened with a new face and a whole new set of lighting — decorative LED...
Fs Laser Mean Output Power Reaches kW Range
AACHEN, Germany, Jan. 11, 2011 — Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) have developed an amplification concept for femtosecond (fs) lasers. As a result, they have been able to achieve mean power in the kilowatt range for the first time. Resonator of the...

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