News tagged with photonic devices
Team develops nanoscale light sensor compatible with 'Etch-a-Sketch' nanoelectronic platform
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale light sensor that can be combined with near-atomic-size electronic circuitry to produce hybrid optic and electronic devices with ...
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Caltech researchers design a new nanomesh material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers, light bulbs, and even people generate heat—energy that ends up being wasted. With a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to electricity and vice versa, you can harness that ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2010 |
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'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications
A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online Septem ...
Sep 05, 2010 |
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Creating light sources for nanochips
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most important goals in the optics community is to create and manipulate light on chip," Yinan Zhang tells PhysOrg.com. "This is especially important when it comes to improving the performance of sem ...
Aug 25, 2010 |
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A pinch of light: Laser 'tweezers' for medicine, communications and harvesting energy
Star Trek fans will remember "tractor beams," lasers that allowed the Starship Enterprise to trap and move objects. Tel Aviv University is now turning this science fiction into science fact -- on a nano scale.
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Researchers analyze the future of transistor-less magnonic logic circuits
(PhysOrg.com) -- As one of the newest research areas today, the field of magnonics is attracting researchers for many reasons, not the least being its possible role in the development of transistor-less logic ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves
Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely ...
Sep 27, 2009 |
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Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 24, 2009 |
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In brief: A tiny, tunable well of light, and a string theorist's toolbox
Promising photonic devices, and theorists attempt to determine whether particle physics and string theory can be reconciled.
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Light sensor breakthrough could enhance digital cameras
New research by a team of University of Toronto scientists could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views
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 ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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New organic material may speed Internet access
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Self-aligning carbon nanotubes could be key to next generation of devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers the world over have thought for years that the next generation of smaller, more-efficient electronic and photonic devices could be based on the use of carbon nanotubes, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 25, 2009 |
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