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Viruses Probed for Quantum Behavior
GARCHING, Germany, March 16, 2010 – Typically, quantum mechanics studies the behavior of energy and matter at the atomic scale, but a German-Spanish research group has begun looking for ways to detect quantum pr...
Golden Bullet Targets Cancer
ST. LOUIS, March 15, 2010 – The mythological silver bullet has just been turned gold. A highly targeted medical treatment, known as the silver bullet, the magic bullet or the Zuberkugel, has become a focu...
LLNL Mirrors Used for Solar Mission
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 15, 2010 — A technology originally developed to make computer chips smaller, faster and more powerful is now being used in space to take images of the sun every 10 seconds with 10 times better resolution that high-definition television.
Molecule Could Advance Displays
DURHAM, N.H., March 15, 2010 — The first stable derivative of nonacene has been synthesized, creating a compound that holds significant promise in the manufacture of flexible organic electronics such as large displays, solar cells and radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs)....
Light Focused Through Opaques
PARIS, March 11, 2010 — Materials such as paper, paint, and biological tissue are opaque because the light that passes through them is scattered in complicated and seemingly random ways. A new experiment conducted by researchers at the City of Paris Industrial Physics and...
Thermopower Creating Waves
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 10, 2010 – Like a flame speeding along the length of a lit fuse, a powerful wave of energy can be created by using a laser to ignite a reactive-fuel-coated carbon nanotube. It could lead to a...
Tracey Joins Vytran as Sales Engineer
MORGANVILLE, N.J., March 9, 2010 – Fiber fusion splicing, assembly and fiber-based glass processing solutions supplier Vytran LLC has hired Jim Tracey as its sales engineer for North America. With a primary focus on developing the company’s business in the sensing, medical and...
Laser Pulses Changed to RF Signals
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 5, 2010 – A tiny device capable of converting ultrafast laser pulses into bursts of radio-frequency signals using innovative "microring resonators." Such an advance could enable all comm...
Light Replacing Wires in Chips
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., March 4, 2010 — IBM scientists yesterday unveiled an ultrafast nanophotonic avalanche photodetector for converting faint optical signals into electrical ones. The device, capable of receiving 40 b...
Graphene Hybrid Created
HOUSTON, Texas, March 3, 2010 – Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists. The technique has implications for application of graphene...
Laser Ablation for Art Restoration
FLORENCE, Italy, March 2, 2010 – Laser ablation has found numerous applications in biomedical and industrial settings. This technique involves removing material from a solid surface by vaporizing the material with...
Quantum Computing Circuit Created
MADISON, Wis., March 2, 2010 – In a move that may help quantum computing become a reality, physicists have created an atomic circuit by exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity. Quantum computing...
Quantum Leap for Phonon Lasers
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 1, 2010 – Physicists have taken major steps forward in the development of practical phonon lasers, which emit sound in much the same way that optical lasers emit light. The development s...
$11M Grants
Feb 28, 2010 — The Australian Solar Institute (ASI) will provide $11 million to help fund five research and development projects that will support and accelerate the growth of Australia’s solar technology sector. ASI is part of the government’s $4.5 billion Clean...
Cold atoms + lasers = synthetic magnetic field
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Thanks to lasers, researchers have persuaded ultracold, neutral atoms to do something new: respond as if they were charged particles to a magnetic field that isn’t there. This synthetic magnetic field will help scientists create new states of matter...
Graphene: The rising star in Raman spectroscopy
BEIJING – With its numerous appealing qualities, including biocompatibility, chemical inertness and abundance, graphene has long been a popular metal among chemists and physicists alike. Thanks to these properties, it has found its way into new applications...
New system lets world monitor California forest fires
RENO, Nev. – When wildfires forced a group of Northern California students from their homes last year, they decided to work to keep the same thing from happening to others. Ranging in age from 10 to 13 years old, the grade-schoolers came up with the idea...
NIR spectroscopy to predict pill quality
BALTIMORE – The quality-testing process for pharmaceuticals raises drug costs, according to pharmacy professor Stephen Hoag, but he says that evaluation with near-infrared spectroscopy could help lower those costs. “The drug industry used to test a pill...
Photonics Company Established
Feb 28, 2010 — Key Photonics Ltd. of Cambridge, UK, has been formed to service the optics and photonics requirements of UK industrial and research companies. The company, specializing in the design and supply of optics, photonic components, optical systems and...
QCL peak power record smashed
EVANSTON, Ill. – Only a year ago, the peak output power of a quantum cascade laser (QCL) was 34 W. Today, thanks to researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University, peak power of 120 W from a single device at room temperature has been...
Terahertz laser tuning comes down to the wire
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The progress of terahertz technology continues its steady march with news of a tunable terahertz laser developed by a group at MIT. Tunable terahertz lasers are particularly use...
The ins and outs of adjustable microlenses
CHANGCHUN, China – Adjustable microlenses now have a new knob that can be turned, courtesy of a research team led by Yanchun Han of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. The group demonstrated two new types of variable-focus liquid microlenses, one constructed...
Undersea Optical Communication
FALMOUTH, Mass., Feb. 26, 2010 – An undersea optical communications system, complemented by acoustics, is enabling a virtual revolution in high-speed undersea data collection and transmission. The scientists a...
Ultrafast Laser Enables New Technologies
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 25, 2010 – In what is being touted as a major breakthrough, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors, Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have built a tabletop X-ray laser for supe...
Molecules Morphed into New Material
ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2010 – A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could one day be designed with the properties needed to serve as the founda...

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