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New Method Manipulates Particles
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 22, 2010 — Researchers at Purdue University have developed a potential new tool for medical diagnostics, for testing food and water for contamination and for crime scene forensics. The novel technique uses a combination of light and electric fields to position droplets and tiny particles, such as bacteria, viruses and DNA, that are contained inside the drops. Other methods using either light or electric fields separately are able to position droplets or the particles they contain, but the new &ldqu...
Organic Laser Breakthrough
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 22, 2010 — Researchers at the University of Michigan have achieved a long sought-after optics phenomenon that could lead to more efficient and flexible lasers for telecommunications and quantum computing applications, among other uses. The researchers...
Plastic Solar Cells Gain Longevity
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, June 22, 2010 — A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology has extended the operating life of an unsealed plastic solar cell, from mere hours to eight months. The research groups’ development of an...
New Microscope Built in Scotland
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 21, 2010 — A new microscope that obtains crucial highly detailed images of cells, tissue and drugs has been built at the Center for Biophotonics of the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in Scotland. Designed and built by Dr. Gail...
Method Bends Beams of Light
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 18, 2010 — Contrary to what we learned in science class, that light beams travel in straight lines, researchers have discovered light can indeed be bent. The researchers from Tel Aviv University call these rays ‘Airy beams’ after English...
Fluorescing Dyes for Counterfeit-Proofing
MUNICH, Germany, June 17, 2010 — A brand new process that uses fluorescent dyes is claiming to render products forgery-proof. When it comes to security features, the more complicated it is to imitate, the more secure the system. “We add various fluorescing dyes to the entire...
Iowa State 3-D Tech Goes Hollywood
AMES, Iowa, June 17, 2010 — William Lohry took a seat before a projector-camera combination and offered his best smile. And there, on a nearby computer monitor, was a perfect, but colorless, 3-D image of every line, contour and movement on the face of the senior chemical...
Nanocircuit Created on Graphene
ATLANTA, Ga., June 16, 2010 — Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, which is widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. The group has devised a simple and quick one-step...
Pollution-Controlling Gold Nanoparticles
ARGONNE, Ill., June 16, 2010 — Using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, a scientist at the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Argonne National Laboratory has created visible-light catalysis that may decompose organic molecules in polluted water. ...
360º Image-Stitching Technology
WASHINGTON, DC, June 15, 2010 — Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios, but there are shortfalls. For starters, once they zoom in on a specific point of interest, they lose visual contact with the rest of...
UV Light Fills in RNA Gaps
ATLANTA, Ga., June 15, 2010 — For scientists attempting to understand how the building blocks of RNA originated on Earth, guanine, the G in the four-letter code of life, has proven to be a particular challenge. While the other three bases of RNA — adenine (A), cytosine (C)...
Microstructures Make LED Light Diffuse
AACHEN, Germany, June 14, 2010 — Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) have developed a new machine that produces a fiber optic film that evenly distributes light from an LED two-dimensionally. The superficial structures of this sheet are...
Terahertz Sensors Improve Optics
ARLINGTON, Va., June 14, 2010 — Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded Professors Mark L. Brongersma of Stanford University and Stefan A. Maier of Imperial College London are investigating new applications for terahertz sensors. Based on their research, these sensors...
Ultraprecise Optical Systems for Space
JENA, Germany, June 14, 2010 — For space research as well as climate observation and weather forecasting satellites need increasingly powerful optical measurement and recording devices. They often consist of several aspherically shaped mirror elements which through their precise...
Le Mans Race Car Uses Flexible OLEDs
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, June 11, 2010 — In this year’s 24 hours Le Mans race (June 12-13), the ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) on the back. Since flexible...
Zeiss Microscope Wins Design Prize
GÖTTINGEN, Germany, June 11, 2010 — The Primo Vert microscope, developed by Carl Zeiss with the support of the design agency Art-Kon-Tor, has been honored with one of the world’s most coveted design prizes, the 2010 reddot product design award. The microscope was chosen as one...
4cc Pico Projector Engine Unveiled
LAS VEGAS, June 10, 2010 — Syndiant, maker of high resolution microdisplays for pico projectors, Foryou Multimedia Electronics Co. Ltd., and Hong Kong’s Astri R&D Labs have produced an LED pico projector that is less than 4cc in volume and 6 mm in height, which is...
A Foldable iPad?
DURHAM, N.C., June 10, 2010 — Tiny copper nanowires are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film solar cells, flat-screen TVs and computers, and flexible displays. "Imagine a foldable iPad," said Benjamin Wiley, an assistant professor of chemistry at...
Laser Device Produces Dark Pulses
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 10, 2010 — Researchers have demonstrated a new type of pulsed laser that excels at not producing light. The new device generates sustained streams of "dark pulses" – repeated dips in light intensity – which is the opposite of the bright bursts in a...
Beam Makes Bone Implant Biodegrade
AACHEN, Germany, June 9, 2010 — A new process that uses a razor-thin laser beam to melt a porous, degradable bone replacement implant has been developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT. This new degradable implant actually stimulates the body to...
‘Nanocoax’ Solves Solar Cell Dilemma
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., June 8, 2010 — Boston College researchers have developed a nanoscale solar cell inspired by the coaxial cable that offers greater efficiency than any previously designed nanotech thin film. The ‘nanocoax’ resolves the ‘thick and thin’...
Sensor Speeds Tumor Detection
DRESDEN, Germany, June 8, 2010 — As an alternative to invasive and time-consuming biopsies, scientists have fitted a microscopic image sensor in an endoscope for in vivo cancer diagnosis. The fiber transmits the laser light to the microscanner mirror. Both are fitted into the tip...
50 Years of the Laser Industry
Jun 7, 2010 — The relentless innovation that has always characterized the laser industry is now driven and firmly controlled by the needs of applications. In the technology’s infancy, the main goals were the discovery of new laser materials and the...
A new twist on moving matter with light
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Light can bend rigid structures, at least on a microscopic scale, researchers report. Light-driven twisting of tiny ribbons could someday be used for negative refractive index materials, in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), or for lithography...
Igniting a few good ideas with fullerenes
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A standard TV trope is the fuse made of a strand of gunpowder slowly burning while heading toward a pile of powder kegs and bundles of dynamite. This fire-starting scenario does, in fact, work, although nobody really does it that way. However,...

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