Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

RSS

British Nanotechnology Pioneer Receives £1.1 Million Investment

Further to its recent announcements of licensing agreements with Nissha and Samson Electro-mechanics for 3D input technology for mobile phones, Peratech Limited has announced that YFM Group managed Partnership Investment...

14 Feb 2010

Researchers Use Quantum Entanglement to Stack Light Particles

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light - photons, w...

14 Feb 2010

Another Step Towards Making Applications Based on Quantum Science and Technology Possible

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

14 Feb 2010

Using Nanotechnology to Turn Light into Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit.

12 Feb 2010

Quantum Light Optic from QD Vision Named Finalist in 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards

The Quantum LightTM Optic from QD Vision was named a finalist in the 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards today, the 163rd birthday of renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a press conference at the legendary Friars Club in New York City. Edison created many of the products and technologies taken for granted today.

11 Feb 2010

Physicists for First Time Observed Chemical Reactions Near Absolute Zero

Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be controlled using quantum mechanics, the peculiar rules of submicroscopic physics.

11 Feb 2010

Zecotek Photonics' LFS Scintillation Crystals Selected by Shinshu University for PET Research

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its patented LFS scintillation crystals have been selected by Japan's pr...

From Zecotek Photonics 10 Feb 2010

Argonne Scientist Named American Physical Society Fellow

Dennis Mills of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

From Argonne National Laboratory 10 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop New, More Efficient Low-Cost Microring Resonator

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American, and Aus...

10 Feb 2010

Ultratech Introduces Newest Lithography System for HBLED Manufacturing

Ultratech, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTEK), a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today introduced its newest lithography system, the Sapphire 100 for high-brightness light-emitting diode (HBLED) manufacturing.

9 Feb 2010