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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers Win Six R+D 100 Awards

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced materials industry.

1 Jul 2008

QPC Lasers to Develop High Power Integrated RGB Lasers for Projection Systems

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the development and commercialization of high brightness, high power semiconductor chip-based lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced that it has won a $3.5 Million contract to develop and deliver high power integrated red-green-blue ""RGB" lasers to be used in laser projection systems to enable more vibrant, high resolution 3-dimensional images.

1 Jul 2008

New Technologies Providing Speed Enforcement on 3 Lanes of Traffic

12 fixed PoliScanspeed systems designed by VITRONIC are to begin operation on state trunk and regional roads in summer 2008. The LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology and digital imaging technology provides speed enforcement on up to 3 lanes of traffic. The target of the Lithuanian authorities is to reduce the number of deaths caused as a result of unsafe speeds by 25% before 2010.

27 Jun 2008

Fabrication Technique Suitable for High-Volume Commercial Production of Photonic Circuits

Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial production.

26 Jun 2008

Using Lasers and Mirrors to Detect Explosives

Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards.

25 Jun 2008

The World's Most Powerful X-Ray Microscopes

The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes.

24 Jun 2008

Laser Microscalpel Destroys Individual Cell While Leaving Nearby Cells Intact

Mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a laser "microscalpel" that destroys a single cell while leaving nearby cells intact, which could improve the precision of surgeries for cancer, epilepsy and other diseases.

24 Jun 2008