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A Low-Cost High-Transmission Polarizer for the Pico-Projector Market

Moxtek has developed a low-cost, high-transmission polarizer for the pico-projector market, the EXT series of polarizers.

27 Apr 2009

Mechanical Sensors 'Wired' by Photonics

As researchers push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups.

26 Apr 2009

Fast Photochromic Molecule That Colors Only under UV Light

Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.

22 Apr 2009

New Era of Research Begins as World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves "First Light"

The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers the first-ever glimpse of high-energy or "hard" X-ray laser light produced in a laboratory.

21 Apr 2009

New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead To Sharper Images

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of the scene at once in the same high detail.

21 Apr 2009

Grant to Significantly Contribute to Development of Enhanced Solid State Lighting Technologies

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has been selected by the Department of Energy (DoE) to receive more than $700,000 in funding for a project that will significantly contribute to the development of enhanced solid state lighting (SSL) technologies.

20 Apr 2009

GenOptics to Join HORIBA Scientific Business Segment

HORIBA Jobin Yvon (Longjumeau, France) a fully owned affiliate of HORIBA Ltd (Kyoto, Japan) and a leader in analytical instrumentation products and worldwide leader in optical spectroscopy, announced today, April 17th, 2009 the acquisition of GENOPTICS (Orsay, France).

20 Apr 2009

Innovative Method for Controlling Light by Adopting Tuning Concepts from RF Technology

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology.

19 Apr 2009

Using Colors of Light to Shrink the Size of Circuitry

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

16 Apr 2009

New Technology Transforms the Utility of an Established Technique

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, has applied Electron Multiplying (EM) technology for the first time to dramatically improve both the speed and sensitivity of Scanning Tunnelling Luminescent spectroscopy (STL) by replacing the standard CCD camera, used to detect photons, with one of its Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) cameras.

15 Apr 2009

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