News tagged with laser ablation

LAMIS -- a green chemistry alternative for laser spectroscopy

At some point this year, after NASA's rover Curiosity has landed on Mars, a laser will fire a beam of infrared light at a rock or soil sample. This will "ablate" or vaporize a microgram-sized piece of the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Imec reports large-area silicon solar cells with high efficiency

At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), Imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Ultrashort laser ablation enables novel metal films

Laser ablation is well known in medical applications like dermatology and dentistry, and for more than a decade it has been used to vaporize materials that are difficult to evaporate for high-tech applications like deposition ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mayo Clinic finds early success with laser that destroys tumors with heat

Physicians at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus are among the first in the nation to use a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver tumors. So far, five patients have been successfully ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cutting-edge laser technology for crime labs developed by FIU research team

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jose Almirall, director of FIU’s International Forensics Research Institute (IFRI), and his research team have been attracting national attention for their cutting-edge research on how laser-induced ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laser surgery technique gets new life in art restoration

A laser technique best known for its use to remove unwanted tattoos from the skin is finding a second life in preserving great sculptures, paintings and other works of art, according to an article in ACS' ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Polarizers may enhance remote chemical detection

Chemists can analyze the composition of a suspected bomb -- without actually touching and possibly detonating it -- using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS. The tool is also commonly used for ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Varicose vein study shows radiofrequency ablation causes less post-operative pain

A study to compare two increasingly popular treatments for varicose veins has found that patients who received radiofrequency ablation reported less post-procedural pain than those treated with endovenous laser ablation.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0