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Michigan Tech Receives $700,000 Gift to Advance Quantum Physics Research

Michigan Technological University’s Physics Department sees itself poised on the brink of greatness. Richard and Elizabeth Henes agree. Longtime and generous supporters of Michigan Tech, the couple has donated another $700,000 to the University to upgrade research facilities in Fisher Hall, including infrastructure improvements.

29 Oct 2010

Laser Technology Can Avert Friction Loss and Materials' Wear

Lots of energy is lost due to friction. For example, automotive engines would transmit more power, were there no frictional losses in valves, bearings and cylinder heads. Materials scientists at the Saarland Universit...

28 Oct 2010

GigOptix Selects Innovative Micro Technology as its Optical Chip Fabrication Partner

GigOptix, Inc. (OTCBB:GGOX), a leading supplier of high performance electronic and electro-optic components that enable next generation 40G and 100G optical networks, today announced that it has chosen Innovative Micro T...

28 Oct 2010

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Detects Buckyballs in Nearby Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the little carbon spheres throughout our Milky Way galaxy -- in the space between stars and around three dying stars.

28 Oct 2010

Issue Dedicated to Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Activities

The race towards fully integrated photonics is on, and plasmons, quantized plasma density fluctuations in solids, are the vehicle allowing photons to squeeze into nanoscale device structures. But set aside the huge drive these application prospects lend to the field - there is a wealth of intriguing and beautiful physics to explore.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 27 Oct 2010

Researchers Awarded Julius Springer Prize for Pioneering Achievements in Nanoscale Physics and Applications

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physical scientist Henri Lezec and Federico Capasso of Harvard have received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2010 for their "pioneering achievements in nanoscale physics and applications."

26 Oct 2010

Optical Surface States in Magnetophotonic Crystals

Magnetophotonic crystals are artificial media that provide efficient coupling of light to their magnetic constituents. Light confinement inside magnetophotonic crystals results in a large enhancement of their magneto-opt...

26 Oct 2010

Table-Top Device Capable of Producing Synchrotron X-Rays

If you say 'synchrotron' to most scientists, they will picture an immense, highly expensive and rather rare facility designed to produce highly intense beams of light, such as the UK's Diamond Light Source th...

26 Oct 2010

Ultratech’s Laser Spike Anneal Tools to Support 45-nm Production Ramp

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), today announced that a large foundry in Asia has placed a significant multi-system, follow-on order for its laser spike anneal (LSA) tools.

26 Oct 2010

Micro-Scale System Producing Thin Beam of Spatially Coherent X-Rays

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research. Today, in Nature ...

25 Oct 2010