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Plasmonic Electrochemical Current Imaging for Examining Electrocatalytic Activity of Nanoparticles

A Biodesign Institute researcher at the Arizona State University, Nongjian Tao has discovered a novel method of measuring the catalytical reactions of single nanoparticles. Effective nanoparticle catalysts are required to carry out many vital functions.

29 Aug 2012

Researchers Break Light Resolution Limit at Nanoscale

Scientists from King's College London together with AMOLF and ICFO have successfully mapped the interaction of light with complex photonic materials by breaking the light resolution limit at the nanoscale. This was done by employing a new technique that integrates optical detection and electronic excitation.

21 Aug 2012

Photonic-Plasmonic Microcavity Can Detect Proteins at Unprecedentedly Low Concentrations

Measuring proteins in real-time down to fM solution concentration
levels, corresponding to only a few thousand of protein molecules, has
been demonstrated for the first time using a hybrid photonic-plasmonic
Whispering Gallery Mode biosensor. Its unprecedented sensitivity is due
to optical trapping of proteins at highly sensitive plasmonic hotspots.

17 Aug 2012

New Book Sheds Light on Nanostructured and Subwavelength Optical Waveguides

Research and Markets has added a new book, titled ‘Nanostructured and Subwavelength Waveguides. Fundamentals and Applications’ from John Wiley and Sons, to its list of offering.

25 Jul 2012

New Technique to Optically Detect Single Molecules

An international research team led by KU Leuven researcher Ventsislav Valev has developed a new method for controlling light at the nanoscale level to achieve optical detection of single molecules.

19 Jul 2012

Scientists Create Optically Switchable Chiral Terahertz Metamolecules

A team of scientists from various research facilities including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a metamolecule whose chirality can be switched optically at the speed of light.

12 Jul 2012

Nanotech Security Concludes First Commercial Scale Test-Run Using Nano-Hole Optical Technology

Nanotech Security has announced the conclusion of its first large scale test-run utilizing its optical security feature based on nanotechnology called NOtES.

11 Jul 2012

Gigaphoton to Develop Mass-Production LPP Light Source

Gigaphoton, a provider of lithography light sources, has declared its new extreme ultraviolet (EUV) conversion efficiency (CE) results.

5 Jul 2012

New Technique to Create Rewritable Computer Chips Using Laser Light

Scientists from the University of California Berkeley and The City College of New York have achieved a significant progress towards the realization of quantum computing by finding a method to produce rewritable computer chips utilizing a light beam.

28 Jun 2012

Researchers Create Nano-Scale 3D Optical Cavities Using Metamaterials

A research team directed by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California Berkeley has created nano-scale three-dimensional (3D) optical cavities that are capable of generating the most powerful nanolaser beams.

28 Jun 2012