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Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Optofluidics announces the pre-release of its Molecular NanoTweezer system - the most powerful optical trapping technology in the world – at SPIE Photonics West, BiOS and Biophysical Society annual meetings in Feb. 2013. Many thousands of times more powerful than the current state-of-the-art technology, the Molecular NanoTweezer allows rapid and automated handling of the smallest of particles including proteins, viruses, cells as well as inorganic nanoparticles.

1 Feb 2013

Researchers Demonstrate Spectrometer Sensors Using New Nanoscale Photonic Device

By bringing nanophotonics technology to traditional optical spectroscopy, a new kind of optical spectrometer with functions of sensing and spectral measurement has been recently demonstrated by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

29 Jan 2013

USDA Announces Investment to Support 250 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Projects

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invests nearly $10 million a year to support about 250 nanoscale science and engineering projects that could lead to revolutionary advances in agriculture and food systems.

29 Jan 2013

High-Resolution Coronal Imager Photographs the Sun in UV Light at 19.3nm Wavelength

The Sun's visible surface, or photosphere, is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. As you move outward from it, you pass through a tenuous layer of hot, ionized gas or plasma called the corona. The corona is familiar to anyone who has seen a total solar eclipse, since it glimmers ghostly white around the hidden Sun.

24 Jan 2013

KaiStar Lighting Places Order for Veeco’s Multi-and Single-Chamber TurboDisc MOCVD Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that the Company has received an order for multi- and single-chamber TurboDisc® MOCVD Systems, including the new MaxBright® M™, from KaiStar Lighting Co., Ltd. KaiStar, a joint venture between Epistar Corporation and Shenzhen Kaifa Technology Co., Ltd., is based in Xiamen, China and began LED production in 2012. The systems will be added to KaiStar’s existing fleet of Veeco MOCVD systems as part of their 2013 capacity expansion plan.

From Veeco 23 Jan 2013

UCLA Creates Optical Microscope to Directly View Nanoscale Objects

By using tiny liquid lenses that self-assemble around microscopic objects, a team from UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created an optical microscopy method that allows users to directly see objects more than 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

From University of California, Los Angeles 21 Jan 2013

UW’s Center for Advanced Oil and Gas Technologies Nano Resolution Imaging Laboratory receives Hess’ Support

Hess Corporation has committed to giving the University of Wyoming $4.4 million to support UW’s Center for Advanced Oil and Gas Technologies Nano Resolution Imaging Laboratory, Governor Matt Mead and UW President Tom Buchanan announced today (Friday).

19 Jan 2013

MIT Researchers Develop Chips that can Steer Beams of Light

If you want to create a moving light source, you have a few possibilities. One is to mount a light emitter in some kind of mechanical housing — the approach used in, say, theatrical spotlights, which stagehands swivel and tilt to track performers.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 Jan 2013

Fireflies Inspire Efficient LEDs

The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal structure of firefly lanterns, the organs on the bioluminescent insects' abdomens that flash to attract mates.

9 Jan 2013

Nanoscale Patterning Helps Count Twists in a Helical Light Beam

At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new attention. Called an optical vortex or vortex beam, this complex beam resembles a corkscrew, with waves that rotate as they travel.

9 Jan 2013

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Optofluidics Pre-Launches Molecular NanoTweezer System at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Researchers Demonstrate Spectrometer Sensors Using New Nanoscale Photonic Device

USDA Announces Investment to Support 250 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Projects

High-Resolution Coronal Imager Photographs the Sun in UV Light at 19.3nm Wavelength

KaiStar Lighting Places Order for Veeco’s Multi-and Single-Chamber TurboDisc MOCVD Systems

UCLA Creates Optical Microscope to Directly View Nanoscale Objects

UW’s Center for Advanced Oil and Gas Technologies Nano Resolution Imaging Laboratory receives Hess’ Support

MIT Researchers Develop Chips that can Steer Beams of Light

Fireflies Inspire Efficient LEDs

Nanoscale Patterning Helps Count Twists in a Helical Light Beam

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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