News tagged with applied optics
Ultra-powerful Laser Makes Silicon Pump Liquid Uphill with No Added Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have discovered a way to make liquid flow vertically upward along a silicon surface, overcoming the pull of gravity, without pumps or other ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Physicists develop 3D metamaterial nanolens that achieves super-resolution imaging
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University has developed a new nanolens that can beat the diffraction limit to achieve so-called super-resolution imaging, better than can be achieved by current technology. ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Nanotechnology gets a new light touch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Mini beamer in a cellphone or PDA
(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking at photos on a cellphone display can be somewhat arduous. A new mini beamer will make it easier. The beamer is so small that it can be integrated in a cellphone or a PDA. As it does ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Highly conductive nanocomposites: Inexpensive plastic used in CDs could improve electronics
If one University of Houston professor has his way, the inexpensive plastic now used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones.
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May 15, 2009 |
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High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers ...
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters
(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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The Power of Light: Moving Macroscopic Amounts of Matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light matter interaction. Now, for the first ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Fabricating 3D Photonic Crystals
(PhysOrg.com) -- “In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,” John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. “This ...
Jan 21, 2009 |
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The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...
Jan 15, 2009 |
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