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Bridgelux Adding Green Jobs in Calif.
LIVERMORE, Calif., Oct. 5, 2010 — LED lighting technologies and solutions manufacturer Bridgelux Inc. announced the dedication of its new headquarters in Livermore, and its plans for the addition of California-based green jobs as the market for energy-efficient LED lighting continues its rapid growth. Joined by Congressman John Geramendi and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren at the event, the company announced the addition of 50 California jobs since the start of 2010. Plans to add another 100 jobs in the new location are anticipate...
Graphene Pioneers Share Physics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5, 2010 — Two Russian expatriates who discovered graphene — the thinnest and strongest form of carbon known — were honored Tuesday with the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
A better limiter for laser light
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Fifty years after the birth of the laser, there may be better protection against the light fantastic, reports a team of researchers. They have found that nanographene, a form of carbon that comes in single atomic layers, might be the right choice...
A notch above for single nanoparticle detection
NEW YORK – Working in the field of single nanoparticle detection, researchers have demonstrated strong optical coupling between an on-chip notched microring resonator and a nanoparticle in the notch. “Recently, it was found that the electromagnetic modes...
Beam control system to help laser weapon protect soldiers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator is continuing on track to become the centerpiece of the US Army’s laser-based defense capabilities. The project, which includes components from Boeing Defense, Space and Security of St. Louis and...
Controlling a deformable mirror with light
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – Adaptive optics are likely to get a boost through new technology using light instead of electricity to control a deformable mirror (DM) that comes with a continuous membrane rather than segmented pixels. The technology, developed at Institut...
Laser breakthrough could soon enable 1-TB optical storage
SENDAI, Japan – Numerous research labs are looking for ways to increase the amount of information one can store on a CD-ROM or related optical disc, but the equipment needed to push past the boundaries of Blu-ray technology is exceedingly large and expensive....
Nanoneedle Delivers QDs to Cells
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Oct. 4, 2010 — Getting an inside look at the center of a cell can be as easy as a needle prick, thanks to University of Illinois researchers who have developed a tiny needle to deliver a shot right to a cell’s nucleus. University of Illinois researchers...
Terahertz detection at a distance
TROY, N.Y. – When it comes to safe screening and detection, terahertz imaging offers considerable advantages but one major drawback. Terahertz waves occupy a large segment of the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and microwave bands and can provide...
UNL Gains Grant to Expand Laser Research
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 4, 2010 — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Science Foundation for renovations to expand its high-power laser research capabilities. The grant from NSF's Academic Research...
Beetle Scales Could Help Speed Computers
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1, 2010 — Research that began as a high school science fair project involving a shiny Brazilian beetle may ultimately help advance the pursuit of ultrafast computers that manipulate light rather than electricity. Brigham Young University physics major Lauren...
Cluster to boost silicon photonics transfer
Oct 1, 2010 — A number of European research and development project consortia have clustered to facilitate the transfer of silicon photonics technology from the research stage to industrial development. The 10 projects – called Boom, Historic, Helios,...
Look, Ma! No hands!
Oct 1, 2010 — I watch in amazement as the woman in the television commercial pushes a button on her dashboard and sits back, gleeful, while her car parks all by itself. And not a simple diagonal parking job, mind you, but the hair-raising parallel kind. The kind...
Artificial Leaf Produces Electricity
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 30, 2010 — In a discovery inspired by nature, a team of researchers have found that water-gel-based solar devices, or artificial leaves, can act like solar cells to produce electricity. According to the team from North Carolina State University, these solar...
Quantum Signals Converted to Telecom Wavelengths
ATLANTA, Sept. 29, 2010 — Using optically dense, ultracold clouds of rubidium atoms, advances have been made in three key elements needed for quantum information systems – including a technique for converting photons carrying quantum data to wavelengths that can be...
Physicists Win MacArthur Grants
ITHACA, N.Y., & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 28, 2010 — An optical physicist at Cornell University working to develop silicon-based devices that harness the information-processing capabilities of light and an MIT physicist whose research links the worlds of quantum mechanics and astronomy were named...
Bodkin Design Awarded Phase II Grant for Polarimeter
NEWTON, Mass., Sept. 27, 2010 — Bodkin Design & Engineering (BD&E) LLC has received a $750,000 Phase II SBIR contract from the US Navy for the development of a compact polarimetric imager for infrared and visible wavelengths. To aid in the detection of targets from...
JPL Gets ‘Photon Gun’ to Study Martian Rocks
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Sept. 27, 2010 — The ChemCam instrument has completed the first short leg of its long trip to Mars, arriving at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from Los Alamos National Laboratory for installation aboard the next Mars rover, due to launch in 2011. The NASA Mars...
Light Workout: Optogenetics Stimulates Mouse Muscles
STANFORD, Calif., Sept. 27, 2010 — Light has been used to effectively stimulate muscle movement in mice optically, rather than electrically. In a study involving bioengineered mice whose nerve-cell surfaces are coated with special light-sensitive proteins, researchers at...
Atomic Behavior Recorded in Real Time
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2010 — IBM announced a breakthrough to its 20-year-old scanning tunneling microscope technology on Friday that gives scientists the ability to record, study and visualize the extremely fast spin of electrons inside individual atoms, in real time. Similar...
Exploring Batteries at the Nanoscale
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 24, 2010 — As industries and consumers increasingly seek improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is providing an unprecedented perspective on how lithium-ion...
He+ Microscope Refines Patterning
PEABODY, Mass., Sept. 23, 2010 — Scientists are investigating new uses for helium-ion microscopy in nanopatterning. Since it is not limited by the proximity effect of conventional electron-beam lithography, helium-ion technology seems to be an attractive alternative, especially...
Image Sensors Made for Extreme Temps
DUISBURG, Germany, Sept. 23, 2010 — Car manufacturers are increasingly equipping their vehicles with image sensors to register the presence of pedestrians or vehicles in the blind spot or to detect obstacles when parking. The sensors must be able to function in extremely high...
Nano Antenna Captures Light
HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2010 — Antennas capture aerial signals that make devices, such as radios and cell phone, work better. Now, a lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light in the same way, at a small scale that has big potential. Condensed matter...
Lasers Cool, Control Molecules
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 22, 2010 — While laser cooling techniques that produce ultracold atoms have been around for decades, it has not extended to molecules because of their complex internal structure. Now physicists at Yale University are cooling molecules down to a temperature...

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