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Researchers Found Way to Optically Trap Particles Through Silicon Wafers

Microfluidic devices and molecule manipulation could benefit from research into optical trapping on silicon wafers.

13 Nov 2007

Researchers Demonstrated World's Smallest Microwave Oven

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-sized drop of liquid inside a container slightly shorter than an ant and half as wide as a single hair.

12 Nov 2007

New Technique Makes Imaging Individual Atoms 100 Times Faster

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) -- which can image individual atoms on a surface -- at least 100 times faster.

12 Nov 2007

Road Signs with Variable Reflectivity Based on Weather Conditions

Imagine paint that adheres to a surface, but releases on command or road signs that change their reflectivity with changing weather conditions. These are two potential uses of a novel, responsive material designed by researchers in the University of Massachusetts Amherst polymer science and engineering department. The research was published online this week in the journal Advanced Materials.

7 Nov 2007

Specialised Imaging Takes Ultra High Speed Imaging to Next Level of Flexibility

Incorporating ultra-high resolution image intensifiers with double pulsing techniques and no-compromise optical design, the new SIM-02 Multi-Channel Framing Camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. takes ultra high speed imaging to the next level of flexibility.

6 Nov 2007

JDSU Announced Delivery of Pump Laser to Support Increasing Network Traffic Demands

JDSU today announced that it has delivered its 400,000th 980 nanometer (nm) amplifier pump laser based on its planar platform. The recipient of the milestone shipment, Wuxi Zhongxing Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (WXZTE), located in Wuxi, China, has purchased more than 30,000 980nm pump lasers from JDSU over the past three years.

6 Nov 2007

Negative-Index Metamaterials Faster than Existing Telecoms Devices

An optical modulator based on negative-index metamaterials could be faster and more compact than existing telecoms devices.

6 Nov 2007

New Retina Regeneration Therapy to be Presented by Ellex

Ellex Medical Lasers Limited, a global leader in the design and manufacture of ophthalmic laser and ultrasound systems, announced today that the initial results of treating patients with Retina Regeneration Therapy (Ellex 2RT(TM)) will be presented by Peter Hamilton MD, FRCOph at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which takes place November 10-13, in New Orleans.

1 Nov 2007

Let There Be Light - New Magnet Design

Engineers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor research.

1 Nov 2007

Researchers to Develop Ways of Controlling Optical Energy

The University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant is designed to explore ways of concentrating optical energy on a scale of nanometers and develop means of controlling optical energy for applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

29 Oct 2007

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