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Light Turned into Electrical Current
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22, 2010 – Using a golden nanoscale system, material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania are now turning light into electrical currents. The syst...
Textron Achieves Over 100 kW with Laser
WILMINGTON, Mass. Feb., 22, 2010 – Textron Defense Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that its Directed Energy Weapons business line has successfully tested its Joint High-Power Solid State Laser (J-HPSSL) laboratory demonstration...
Atom Interferometer Tests Redshift
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 19, 2010 - While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly – a central prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity – a new experiment in an atom interferometer measures this slowdown 10,000 times...
Breakthrough for Hybrid Solar Cells
FREIBURG, Germany, Feb. 19, 2010 – A method for treating the surface of nanoparticles has enabled researchers to attain an efficiency rate of 2 percent by using so-called quantum dots composed of cadmium selenide. The method was developed by Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg...
Ultrafast Lasers Benefit Optical Experiments
WÜRZBURG, Germany, Feb. 18, 2010 – Until now, time-resolved optical experiments have been taking advantage of external moveable optical delay lines or two synchronized pulsed laser systems in order to achieve a defi...
‘Eye-Safe’ Laser Record Set
MUNICH, Feb. 18, 2010 – Laser Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC Lasers product line, announced new power and brightness records for lasers operating at “eye-safe” wavelengths between 1410 nm and 155...
Lasers Could Speed Cancer Testing
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18, 2010 – When a tissue biopsy is sent to a lab to be analyzed for cancer, it can take hours, days or even a week to get the results. Now, a new analysis technology developed by researchers i...
VCSELs Key to High-Speed Communication
GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 18, 2010 – Research on long-wavelength VCSELs (Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers) is aimed at finding an efficient and reliable technological answer to the ever-growing demands for bandwidth in telecommunication networks. The European project...
AMS Readies for Dark-Matter Mission
GENEVA, Feb. 17, 2010 – The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has taken its initial steps in a journey that will take it ultimately to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be used to look ...
Photons Led Astray
ERLANGEN, Germany, Feb. 17, 2010 – An international team, headed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, is using polarized light (light waves that oscillate in a particular plane) to de...
Shinshu U. Picks PET Crystals
SINGAPORE, Feb. 17, 2010 – Zecotek Photonics Inc.’s LFS scintillation crystals have been selected by Shinshu University in Japan for trials in its next-generation positron emission tomography (PET) medical i...
Sony Enters Flow Cytometry Business
NEW YORK and TOKYO, Feb. 17, 2010 – Sony Corp. has acquired iCyt Mission Technology Inc. of Champaign, Ill., a producer of high-performance cell sorters used for stem cell and disease research, through its US subsidiary, Sony Corp. of America (SCA). With the acquisition, the...
Sensor Combines Images, Video
OXFORD, England, Feb. 16, 2010 — By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors, researchers in England developed a revolutionary way of capturing a high-resolution ...
Toy Houses Built From Light
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, Feb. 16, 2010 – A team of physicists from the University of Calgary has discovered how to use quantum entanglement to stack light particles. By manipulating the quantum entanglement, this team...
Transforming Metal Oxide Observed
OXFORD, England, Feb. 16, 2010 – An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has been investigating what happens to the top layer of atoms on the surface of a material. The material is strontium titanate – a complex metal oxide that many researchers are...
Diamond Device Channels Photons
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15, 2010 — A newly created diamond-based nanowire device offers a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature — an essential element in making fast and secure computing w...
Stratophase Nets £2.5M from Investor
ROMSEY, UK, Feb. 12, 2010 — Stratophase Ltd., a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection, has secured £2.5 million (about $3.9 million) in follow-on funding from existing inv...
Glaring at the Sun with NASA’s SDO
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 11, 2010 – At approximately 10:30 Eastern today, NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the first of the space agency’s “Living with a Star” programs to blast-off. The programs are intended to study and understand the causes of solar variability...
INRS Develops Microring Resonator
QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 11, 2010 – A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high-speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti’s INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American and Australian researchers. This...
T-Ray Science, ULeeds Collaborate
VANCOUVER, B.C., Feb. 11, 2010 – T-Ray Science Inc. has entered into a research collaboration with the University of Leeds in the UK to develop low-cost, pulsed and continuous wave (CW), fiber-coupled terahertz (THz) spectrometers that operate at telecom wavelengths. The commercial...
UV Pulses for Quantum Computing
MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 11, 2010 – Photons are promising candidates for investigating quantum systems. German researchers demonstrated a new method for generating intense, ultrashort light pulses in the ultraviolet...
Cheap and Recyclable Lighting
UMEA, Sweden, Feb. 10, 2010 — A super material developed by Swedish and American researchers will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable. The invention, which paves the way for glowing wallpaper made entirely of plastic, for example, is published in the scientific journal...
JMAR Delivers UV Laser to NASA
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2010 – JMAR LLC, laser-based product solutions designer specializing in microbiological detection of organisms in water, environmental gas emissions and explosives detection, announced it has developed a dual wavelength UV Dial transmitter for atmospheric...
OCT Illuminates Art Forgeries
TORUN, Poland, Feb. 8, 2010 – Scientists in Poland describe how a medical imaging technique – optical coherent tomography, or OCT – has taken on a second life in revealing forgery of an artist’s signature and changes in inscriptions on paintings that are hundreds of years old.
Quantum Logic Clock Tops Itself
BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 8, 2010 – An enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock is boasting more than twice the precision as the previous pacesetter – the original ‘quantum logic clock’ – keeping time to 1 second in 3.7 billion years.

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