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Imaging Diagnoses Complex Chips
May 1, 1998 — Today's typical microprocessor is a complex creature. The continuing trend toward faster, smaller and denser CMOS circuits does not help engineers measure a chip's signals for possible defects. Traditional inspection methods, which involve probing the device, face difficulties as processor technologies advance. Researchers at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center have a solution that would allow inspection by examining infrared light through the back of the processor. The fact that it has become...
Laser Ablation Creates Nanowires
May 1, 1998 — An Nd:YAG laser is one tool in a new technique that creates nanometer-scale "wires" for atomic microscopy and submicron electronics. Chemistry Professor Charles M. Lieber and graduate student Alfredo M. Morales of Harvard University took a novel...
Laser Component Builders Get Quality Boost
May 1, 1998 — Thanks to researchers at the University of Michigan, manufacturers of microelectronics used in laser production soon will have access to a device that will for the first time allow critical analysis of key aspects of the process. "Microelectronics...
Laser Searches for Downed Aircraft
May 1, 1998 — When it comes to finding downed airplanes or sinking boats, time is critical. The faster rescuers locate the disabled vehicle, the better the chance of finding survivors. Researchers at Daedalus Enterprises Inc. are working on a system that lets...
Laser Stops Bose-Einstein Cold
May 1, 1998 — Physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have broken new ground in Bose-Einstein condensate research by trapping the condensate with light and tuning its behavior with magnetic fields. Both accomplishments clear the way for new work in...
Laser Technique Polishes Glass Lenses
May 1, 1998 — Glass's high infrared absorption could prove a boon to a new laser technique that can polish both symmetric and asymmetric glass lenses faster than mechanical techniques. Ferran Laguarta and his associates at the Universitat Politècnica de...
Lasers Restore Classic Cars
May 1, 1998 — The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, restores classic roadsters, such as vintage Jaguars, using a new laser coating technique. For the last year, engineers have repaired defective turbine components, worn gears and...
Microcavity Tunes over Visible Spectrum
May 1, 1998 — A team of researchers from Cambridge University in the UK has built a microcavity that could be suitable as an efficient and tunable wavelength converter. The cavity enhances the rate of emission at the resonance wavelengths of the cavity while...
New Solution Advances Fiber Stub End Pumping
May 1, 1998 — A new pumping technology for solid-state lasers incorporates fewer optical elements and a simpler assembly at the same time that it promises greater conversion efficiency and better beam quality. Dubbed fiber stub, the technology could be the...
New Twist: Lasers Could Help Create Larger Microchips
May 1, 1998 — Microchip and display companies are showing interest in a variation on a laser micromachining technique that creates large-area, low-defect crystalline silicon films. Liquid crystal displays and microchips use amorphous silicon as the substrate for...
Photoluminescence Improves LCDs
May 1, 1998 — Although electroluminescent, plasma and fluorescent technologies present certain advantages, liquid crystal displays (LCDs) continue to dominate the flat panel display industry. Liquid crystal's low power consumption, low-voltage operation and...
Photons Squeeze Through Tiny Holes
May 1, 1998 — Ask most chip-makers today what they think about using photolithography for submicron components, and they'll say it has reached its limits. The small mask openings required to make equally small features do not allow the necessary light to pass...
Photorefractive Volume Gratings Stabilize Wavelengths
May 1, 1998 — A research team from the National Research Laboratory of Metrology in Tsukuba, Japan, has stabilized the wavelengths of two diode lasers by using two photorefractive volume gratings in one lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal. Both wavelengths exhibited...
Physicist Pushes Multilayer CDs
May 1, 1998 — A Russian-born physicist, who emigrated from the Soviet Union more than two decades ago, has persuaded the Russian parliament to invest in a company that would manufacture multilayer fluorescent discs. Eugene Levich heads two firms that have shares...
Probing the 'Glory Ring' Mystery
May 1, 1998 — Ever notice bright, colored rings around a distant airplane? Researchers have described this phenomenon as a strong backscattering of light by droplets of water. While the theory was well-developed, it remained difficult to verify experimentally....
Researchers Find Privacy in Chaos
May 1, 1998 — Communication can be chaotic enough when the communicators stand face to face. Introducing technology into the equation can sometimes aggravate potential misunderstandings. Who, then, would want to throw even more chaos into the communication...
Spatial Light Modulator Yields Full-Color Images
May 1, 1998 — A standard silicon wafer is the key to a technology that could make possible miniature, low-power, color displays, such as those used in portable or headmounted devices. Developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, the...
Stained-Glass Physics Help Detect HIV
May 1, 1998 — Sheldon Schultz, a scientist at the University of California at San Diego, has used "plasmon resonant particles" to detect HIV antibodies in blood samples. When particles resonate in this way, they absorb the wavelengths that set off the...
Airborne Laser Passes First Test
Apr 1, 1998 — Aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. of Seattle has concluded the first series of wind tunnel tests on components crucial to the Airborne Laser. The weapon system is designed to destroy theater ballistic missiles in the initial phase of...
Apache Point's Telescope Nears Completion
Apr 1, 1998 — The final pieces of the Apache Point Observatory's new telescope have arrived, marking the beginning of a multiyear project to produce a three-dimensional picture of the universe. The delivery included the optics of one spectrograph and an...
Blue Lasers Aim at Optical Data Storage, Display Markets
Apr 1, 1998 — In the latest entry in the race to develop a high-power blue laser, SDL Inc. has introduced a semiconductor laser based on gallium nitride. The San Jose, Calif.-based company's entry emits at multiple wavelengths between 400 and 410 nm and features...
Chinese Scientists Seek Release of Jailed Physicist
Apr 1, 1998 — After a Taiwan-born physicist recently pleaded guilty to passing classified information on nuclear weapons to China, a group of Chinese scientists launched an appeal to the US for his release. Scientists from the government-run Chinese Academy of...
Component Manufacturer Puts the Bend in Optical Fiber
Apr 1, 1998 — As the photonics industry marches toward miniaturization, one component manufacturer plans to improve telecommunications technology with a way to create 180° optical fiber bends with low losses and small diameters. Thomas & Betts Corp. of...
Custom X-Ray Lenses Aid Astrophysical Imaging
Apr 1, 1998 — The National Research Council's Solid State Electronics Institute is producing custom optics for scientists who want to develop their own x-ray optical systems for astrophysical investigation or synchrotron radiation research. Researchers rely...
Diode-Pumped Kilowatt Laser Is Brighter, More Powerful
Apr 1, 1998 — With the goal of advancing diode-pumped solid-state laser technology by making lasers brighter and more powerful, TRW Inc. of Redondo Beach, Calif., introduced its newest diode array-pumped kilowatt laser at Photonics West. The company says this...

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