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Materials Mimic Mechanics
BERKELEY, Calif., July 21, 2009 -- Astronomical phenomena such as black holes could be studied in a tabletop laboratory setting if the nascent field of artificial optical materials is combined with celestial mechanics, researchers say. “We have introduced a new class of specially designed optical media that can mimic the periodic, quasiperiodic and chaotic motions observed in celestial objects that have been subjected to complex gravitational fields,” said University of California, Berkeley, professor Xiang Zhang, a faculty...
Storing Sunlight for Soldiers
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, & ARLINGTON, Va., July 21, 2009 -- New technologies for capturing sunlight and storing it as energy in flexible and wearable solar cells are being pursued by the Air Force Research Laboratory to help soldiers on the ground and those operating unmanned aerial vehicles.
Fine-tuning Ultracold Atoms
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 20, 2009 – Scientists at MIT devised how to relay the successful storage of light in a form of quantum memory based on a cold-atom gas, while scientists in Brazil reported the controllable formation of quantum turbulence in an ultracold atom gas.
ILX Secures Development Grant
Jul 20, 2009 — ILX Lightwave Corp., located in Bozeman, Mont., has announced it has received a grant from the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology for the development of high-accuracy optical power measurement of high-power laser diodes. The...
Electronic Metamaterial Made
BASEL, Switzerland, July 17, 2009 -- Physicists and chemists in Switzerland defied the belief that electrical resistance of a material can't be adjusted by developing thin films with controllable electronic properties. The discovery could have a big impact on future applications in...
OLED Efficiency Improved
DAEJEON, South Korea, July 17, 2009 -- A research team at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has discovered surface plasmon-enhanced spontaneous emission based on an organic LED (OLED), a finding expected to improve the device's energy consumption, KAIST officials...
Photonics Right Technology for Government to Invest in Next Generation
Jul 17, 2009 — The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, and Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, recently signed a research collaboration agreement to jointly develop advanced...
Microvision Awarded $1M for Eyewear
Jul 13, 2009 — Microvision Inc. of Redmond, Wash., was awarded a $1 million subcontract by Lockheed Martin Corp last week as part of DARPA’s Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA-Vis) program, an advanced technology development...
PECASE Funds Photonics Work
WASHINGTON, July 13, 2009 -- Scientists and engineers focused on photonics-related work were among the 100 named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...
Repulsive Light Force Rules
NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 13, 2009 – Yale University researchers who had previously discovered an attractive force of light and showed how it could be manipulated to move components in semiconducting micro- and nanoelectrical systems have now discovered a complementary repulsive force,...
Invisible with Visible Light
BARCELONA, Spain, July 8, 2009 – A device, called a dc metamaterial, has been theorized by a group of researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Acting as a kind of invisibility cloak, it can make objects invisible under certain light by making the inside of the magnetic...
Polarized Light Rules Qubits
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 7, 2009 – One of the great challenges in creating a working quantum computer is maintaining control over the carriers of information, the ‘switches’ in a quantum processor, while isolating them from the environment. Physicists at NIST have now devised a...
Ion Trap Senses Force, Light
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 6, 2009 – Miniature devices for trapping ions are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at NIST holds promise as a stylus for sensing very small forces and light particles for quantum...
Bruker Gets EPR Spectrometer Order
Jul 3, 2009 — Bruker BioSpin of Karlsruhe, Germany, announced its first order for an Elexsys™ E780 system, the first commercial mm-wave 263-GHz EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance) spectrometer and its EPR division's first foray into quasi-optical...
Dugan Named DARPA Director
Jul 3, 2009 — Regina E. Dugan has been appointed as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense (DoD) announced. DARPA is the principal agency within the DoD for high-risk, high-payoff projects in...
NIH Review Changes Outlined
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 2009 -- NIH’s James Bjork outlined upcoming changes to the institute’s peer-review process, which he said is essentially to "fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least amount of administrative burden."
UK, China Fund Spintronics Study
Jul 2, 2009 — A team of researchers from the University of Surrey and two other institutions have been awarded a grant of around £430,000 (about $704,000) to develop prototype ultrasmall-scale silicon structures for "spintronic" semiconductors. Jointly awarded by...
A closer look at our ancestor
AUSTIN, Texas – Discovered in 1974, the 3.2-million-year-old bones of the fossil Lucy could give us more insight into our origins. Lucy’s remains, which are the oldest and most complete adult erect-walking skeleton ever found, consist of around 80 separate bones....
Anticipating the 2009 Prism Awards
Jul 1, 2009 — By the time most of you read this, Photonics Media and SPIE will be in the midst of planning the 2009 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation – the second year of what we consider to be the industry’s most prestigious awards for advances in photonics...
Canada’s first 10-kW fiber laser
OXFORD, Mass. – Canada just got its first 10-kW fiber laser. IPG Photonics Corp. recently delivered the laser to the Centre spécialisé de technologie physique du Québec inc. in La Pocatière, Québec. The most powerful of its kind in Canada, the new laser will...
Changing spaces
SEATTLE – PhD-level women with established private sector careers in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) who want to explore the possibility of a career in the academic world are invited to workshops designed to help them make the...
Detecting melamine in food
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University are using infrared lasers and light spectroscopy methods to rapidly detect tiny amounts of melamine in baby formula. The technique is performed with equipment that’s readily available to health officials and...
European Laser Market
Jul 1, 2009 — Advances in technology are creating new opportunities in certain segments of the laser market, despite the current economic slowdown. What follows are reports on some of those areas where those advancements are besting the downturn. Rapid...
Fingerprint tech gets tested
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The characteristics that help to differentiate one set of fingerprints from another were first defined in 1892 by Sir Francis Galton. In the decades since, fingerprint identification has become a staple of forensic investigations. Originally, it...
Holographic disc can store 100 DVDs
NISKAYUNA, N.Y. – GE Global Research, the technology development unit of General Electric, has created a disc that is the size of a standard DVD yet can hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs’ worth of information. The disc contains holograms similar to those you might...

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