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Jenoptik and LightTrans Signs Cooperation Agreement

A cooperation agreement between Jenoptik and LightTrans was signed in Jena at the end of last week. In future, LightTrans will be designing micro-optical components and systems exclusively for Jenoptik. LightTrans is a s...

17 Jun 2009

Work Could Boost Quantum Information Processing and Allow More Precise Measurements

University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical vibrations to a near standstill.

17 Jun 2009

Major Step Towards Unique and Highly Useful 21st Century Technology

It was an idea born out of curiosity in the physics lab, but now a new type of 'laser' for generating ultra-high frequency sound waves instead of light has taken a major step towards becoming a unique and highly ...

17 Jun 2009

Microscopic Polymer Beads that Change Color Instantly and Reversibly

A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change orientation.

16 Jun 2009

Bright, Stable and Bio-Friendly Nanocrystals Act as Individual Investigators of Activity within Cells

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Jun 2009

Biophysicists Create Nonstick Gold Surfaces and Laser-Safe Gold Nanoposts

Biophysicists long for an ideal material-something more structured and less sticky than a standard glass surface-to anchor and position individual biomolecules. Gold is an alluring possibility, with its simple chemistry and the ease with which it can be patterned.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Nanoparticles Could Someday Target and Destroy Tumors

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.

16 Jun 2009

Fully Tested and Qualified Wafer-Level Lenses Use Reflow Compatible Materials to Streamline Production and Assembly of Camera Modules

Nemotek Technologie, manufactures customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today announced its Wafer-Level Optics (WLO) solutions are fully qualified and now available to customers. Producing thousands o...

16 Jun 2009

3-D, Real-Time X-Ray Images May be Closer to Reality

Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes. In a paper ...

16 Jun 2009

Winner of the First Photonics21 Student Innovation Award Announced

PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the EU-Directorate Information Society and Media awarded Chassagneux the prize at the opening ceremony of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich on the 15 th June 2009.

15 Jun 2009