News tagged with plasmonic
Visualizing viruses: new research pinpoints tiny invaders
In the war against infectious disease, identifying the culprit is half the battle. Now, research professor Shaopeng Wang and his colleagues from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, describe a new method for ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Imec reports asymetric nanostructures for early and more accurate prediction of cancer
Researchers at the nanotechnology research center Imec (Belgium) have demonstrated biosensors based on novel nanostructure geometries that increase the sensitivity and allow to detect extremely low concentrations of specific ...
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Jun 23, 2010 |
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Plasmonic Promises: First Observation of Plasmarons in Graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- The energy bands of complex particles known as plasmarons have been seen for the first time by scientists working with graphene at the Advanced Light Source. Their discovery may hasten the ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Nanoparticles Provide a Targeted Version of Photothermal Therapy for Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using easily prepared gold nanocages that are able to escape from the blood stream and accumulate in tumors, a team of investigators from the Washington University in St. Louis has shown that they can use ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Silver proves its mettle for nanotech applications
The self-assembling properties of the DNA molecule have allowed for the construction of an intriguing range of nanoscale forms. Such nanoarchitectures may eventually find their way into a new generation of ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits
Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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World's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light ...
Aug 30, 2009 |
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IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs
IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Molecular machines drive plasmonic nanoswitches
Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are smaller ...
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers
The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove ...
Jan 24, 2009 |
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