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Panasonic Introduces Advanced Photo and Video Hybrid Camera with Nano Surface Coating Technology

The new LUMIX DMC-ZS30 is Panasonic's most advanced photo and video hybrid compact camera to date. With exceptional image quality and a host of features, including a 20x Optical Zoom, 60p Full HD video recording and Wi-Fi connectivity, it's ideal for those looking for a camera that does it all without compromise.

8 Jan 2013

Innovative Dual-Core Nanomechanical Optical Fibers Help Improve Data Processing and Sensing

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data.

21 Dec 2012

Nano Labs Extends Frontiers of LEDs Using Nanotechnology

Nano Labs Corp. today announced it has developed an innovative "intelligent illumination system" for greenhouses, that works with commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to reduce energy consumption and improve processes contributing to the growth of plant life in agricultural greenhouses.

21 Dec 2012

Carbon-Nanotube-Coated Ultrasound Acts as Invisible Knife for Noninvasive Surgery

A carbon-nanotube-coated lens that converts light to sound can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever before. The University of Michigan engineering researchers who developed the new therapeutic ultrasound approach say it could lead to an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery.

20 Dec 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Synchronization at Nanoscale Using Light

Synchronization phenomena are everywhere in the physical world -- from circadian rhythms to side-by-side pendulum clocks coupled mechanically through vibrations in the wall. Researchers have now demonstrated synchronization at the nanoscale, using only light, not mechanics.

17 Dec 2012

Silicon Nanophotonics Allows Integration of Optical Components with Electrical Circuits on a Single Chip

IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.

11 Dec 2012

Duke University Team Develops Novel Metamaterial

Microscopic metallic cubes could unleash the enormous potential of metamaterials to absorb light, leading to more efficient and cost-effective large-area absorbers for sensors or solar cells, Duke University researchers have found.

From Duke University - Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics 7 Dec 2012

New Microscopy Tool to Explore Solar-to-Electric Energy Conversion

If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for examining those objects. Information about nanoscale chemistry and interactions with light—the atomic-microscopy equivalent to color—is tantalizingly out of reach to all but the most persistent researchers.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 7 Dec 2012

Innovative Optical Tweezers Trap Nano-Sized Particles

To grasp and move microscopic objects, such as bacteria and the components of living cells, scientists can harness the power of concentrated light to manipulate them without ever physically touching them.

5 Dec 2012

Tunable Plasmonic Nanobubbles Help Advance Medical Applications

Researchers at Rice University have found a way to kill some diseased cells and treat others in the same sample at the same time. The process activated by a pulse of laser light leaves neighboring healthy cells untouched.

1 Dec 2012

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Panasonic Introduces Advanced Photo and Video Hybrid Camera with Nano Surface Coating Technology

Innovative Dual-Core Nanomechanical Optical Fibers Help Improve Data Processing and Sensing

Nano Labs Extends Frontiers of LEDs Using Nanotechnology

Carbon-Nanotube-Coated Ultrasound Acts as Invisible Knife for Noninvasive Surgery

Researchers Demonstrate Synchronization at Nanoscale Using Light

Silicon Nanophotonics Allows Integration of Optical Components with Electrical Circuits on a Single Chip

Duke University Team Develops Novel Metamaterial

New Microscopy Tool to Explore Solar-to-Electric Energy Conversion

Innovative Optical Tweezers Trap Nano-Sized Particles

Tunable Plasmonic Nanobubbles Help Advance Medical Applications

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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