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New Developments in Optical Technology Tests for Early Detection of Alzheimer's

Providing an update on progress and new findings on his optical tests for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, Lee Goldstein of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School will describe dramatic new developments in the technology during a plenary talk at Frontiers in Optics, the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in Rochester, N.Y., which takes place next week.

8 Jul 2007

New Feat of Optical Technology for Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Images

South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image.

8 Jul 2007

Breakthroughs in Optics, Photonics

Researchers from around the world will present new breakthroughs in optics, photonics and their applications at the 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) from May 6-11 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md.

8 Jul 2007

New Technology to Improve Capacitors

A new technique for creating films of barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanoparticles in a polymer matrix could allow fabrication of improved capacitors able to store twice as much energy as existing devices.

8 Jul 2007

New Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Industry

New data on the properties of potential "liquid lenses" compiled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could help the semiconductor industry continue to shrink feature sizes on computer chips.

8 Jul 2007

Laser Light Used to Strip Hydrogen Atoms from Silicon Surfaces

A team of researchers have achieved a long-sought scientific goal: using laser light to break specific molecular bonds.

8 Jul 2007

MIT Scientists Convert Light into Electricity More Efficiently than Ever Before

MIT researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before.

8 Jul 2007

Optics on a Chip

In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step closer to market.

8 Jul 2007

Quantum Encryption - Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Particles of light serving as "quantum keys" — the latest in encryption technology — have been sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NTT Corp. in Japan, and Stanford University.

5 Jul 2007

Photoacoustic Detection Technique Used to Listen to Cancer

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia can now detect the spread of skin cancer cells through the blood by literally listening to their sound.

5 Jul 2007

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