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Collecting Images Like a Camera But Without a Lens

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Researchers Design Device Making Objects Invisible Under Certain Light

A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency electromagnetic waves - by making the inside of the magnetic field zero but not altering the exterior field.

7 Jul 2009

Light-Absorbing Nanowires Making Better Solar Panels

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

7 Jul 2009

Compound Restores Balance in Eye with One Treatment

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States.

2 Jul 2009

Working Towards an Optical Integrated Circuit

ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer.

2 Jul 2009

AIST-NT Presents Magicscan Technology, A Set of Feedback and Scanning Process Control Algorithms

AIST-NT presents the MagicScan technology which is the set of feedback and scanning process control algorithms. These algorithms allow eliminating different dynamical errors such as overshooting, ringing and phase lag.

1 Jul 2009

EMCCD Camera Allows Researchers to Analyse Individual Metal Nanoparticles at Rates of 100 Per Second or Faster

Using an Andor Technology Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera in combination with an imaging spectrograph and a sheath flow cuvette, researchers at the La Jolla Bioengineering Institute in California, have been able to analyse individual metal nanoparticles at rates of 100 per second or faster.

1 Jul 2009

Ultra-Thin Material That Absorbs All The Incident Light.

It appears to be a paradox: ultra-thin material that absorbs all the incident light. Nonetheless, it does exist. Two Leiden researchers report on their research in 'Applied Physics Letters'. The article is among the Top 20 of the most downloaded articles of this reputable journal in May.

30 Jun 2009

Online Bibliography Demonstrates Applications of UV Area Imaging

Paraytec Ltd., the developer of the world's first quantitative UV area imaging system, has announced a major expansion of their online applications bibliography and technical downloads section.

25 Jun 2009

Quantum Bit Memory Lengthen by 1,000 times using Lasers

The scientists, including the University of Michigan's Duncan Steel, used lasers to elicit a previously undiscovered natural feedback reaction that stabilizes the quantum dot's magnetic field, lengthening the stable existence of the quantum bit by several orders of magnitude, or more than 1,000 times.

24 Jun 2009

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