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Dynasil Awarded 7 Phase II SBIR Grants
WATERTOWN, Mass., Sept. 13, 2010 — Dynasil Corporation of America announced recently that the US Department of Energy (DOE) has approved seven of its Phase II SBIR projects for awards ranging from $750,000 to $1 million each. Totaling $6.2 million, the awards are being made to the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. (RMD), to develop state-of-the-art nuclear sensors and instruments. Three of the awards, from the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research, focus...
IU Gets New 3-D Microscope
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 13, 2010 — A new laser-equipped microscope at Indiana University, Bloomington’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center makes it possible to examine biological samples with unprecedented detail in three dimensions. The $1.2 million DeltaVision OMX...
Light-Activated Sutures for War Wounds
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 13 , 2010 — A new, light-activated nanosuture technology known as photochemical tissue bonding may soon facilitate more effective treatment of traumatic battlefield injuries sustained by Airmen. Developed as a result of research managed by Air Force...
Quantum Dice Generate Truly Random Numbers
ERLANGEN, Germany, Sept. 13, 2010 — In classical physics every event can be explained in mathematical terms, but researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light have reportedly constructed a device that works on the principle of true randomness. With the help of...
Forum to Explore Gigapixel Imaging
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10, 2010 — Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology Nov. 11-13 at the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)....
Renishaw, UWarwick to Hold Raman Seminars
COVENTRY, England, Sept. 10, 2010 — An exciting line up of world-class speakers will be passing on their experience and expertise in the upcoming “Inside Raman” event at the University of Warwick. This event, jointly organized by Renishaw plc and Mark Newton at the...
Traffic Pollution Analyzed by IR Sensing
MADRID, Spain, Sept. 10, 2010 — Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are testing infrared (IR) remote sensing technology to evaluate the pollutant emissions associated with motor vehicle traffic. The technology could analyze all the gases of environmental interest with...
Device Improves Global Data Transmission
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 9, 2010 — Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks. Working on the European Union-funded Framework Program 7...
Light on Chip Slowed to a Crawl
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 9, 2010 — A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1200. Each of the 32 units fabricated on this four-inch silicon wafer is an integrated...
Piezoelectric Effect Controlled in QDs
MONTREAL, Sept. 9, 2010 — The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday items such as watches, motion sensors and precise positioning...
‘Quantum Cats’ Made of Light
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 8, 2010 — "Quantum cats" made of photons have been created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on...
Scope Reveals New Physics of Graphene
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 8, 2010 — Using a one-of-a-kind scanning-probe microscope, an international team of researchers discovered that electrons in graphene, which comprise four quantum states, can split into different energies when exposed to extremely low temperatures and...
“Greening” Your Flat-Screen TV
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 7, 2010 — Researchers at Tel Aviv University developed an environmentally friendly organic LED light source for home electronics, medicine and clean energy. The new light source applies a discovery in nanotechnology, based on self-assembled peptide nanotubes,...
Laser Blinds Heat-Seeking Missiles
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 7, 2010 — New laser technology is being developed that will protect helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles. "Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops have often had to rely on helicopters, and they can...
LEDs: Not So Green After All?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sept. 7, 2010 — Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient Edison light bulb with more efficient solid-state LEDs would lower electrical usage worldwide, not only decreasing the need for new power plants but even permitting some to...
Listening to Ancient Colors
MONTREAL, Sept. 7, 2010 — A technique known as photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy can be used to identify the composition of pigments used in artwork that is decades or even centuries old, a team of McGill University chemists has discovered. Pigments give artist's materials...
Sputtering Technique Ups Coating Efficiency
BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany, Sept. 3, 2010 — Sputtering is the phenomenon that occurs when energy-rich ions hit a solid object and cause atoms to be released from its surface. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Thin Film and Surface Technology IST have discovered a special sputtering...
'Piezotronic' Logic Device Devised
ATLANTA, Sept. 2, 2010 — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic devices in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical strain to zinc oxide nanowires. The devices, which...
Laser ‘Bottle’ Gravity Test Proposed
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 2, 2010 — A new experiment proposed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances — a scale at which exotic new...
AMS Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Sept. 1, 2010 — The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, arrived recently at the Kennedy Space Center as it moves forward on its journey to the International Space Station. The AMS detector was...
An unexpected dark pulse laser
BOULDER, Colo. – Sometimes what isn’t there can be as interesting as what is. In working to develop mode-locked quantum dot diode lasers, researchers have discovered something unforeseen: a dark pulse laser. The device emits a steady beam of light, with...
Applications abound for newly licensed microLEDs
STRATHCLYDE, UK – Communications and life sciences can expect a boost from a newly formed company in Glasgow. In a spinout deal, the University of Strathclyde has formed mLED Ltd., a company dedicated to promoting its newly licensed microLEDs, dense arrays of up...
Curved light bends the rules
TEL AVIV, Israel – Conventional thinking leads us to believe that light only follows a straight path and that it diffracts as it travels. But some scientists are breaking all the rules by creating a new class of nondiffracting optical beam that can bend around...
Nano light mill motor controlled by wavelength changes
BERKELEY, Calif. – A newly developed light mill could lead to a whole new crop of nanoscale devices, including nanoscale solar light harvesters, nanoelectromechanical systems, and nanobots that could manipulate DNA and other biological molecules in vivo. ...
Photonics in South Korea and Singapore: People and places
Sep 1, 2010 — As is well known, South Korea is a high-tech industrialized nation and currently among the world’s 20 largest economies. Gwangju, its sixth largest city, was home to the World Photonics Expo 2010 in the spring and is the seat of the Korea...

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