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Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner	Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Eric Smalley	Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 Eric Smalley	Crystal bends light back Being able to bend light backwards is extremely useful. This negative refraction is controversial in physics circles and has only been demonstrated using artificial materials containing metal loops. It turns out that a common natural crystal has harbored this capability all along.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Photonic chips go 3D Computer chips made from photonic crystal promise better communications equipment and ultrafast, all-optical computers
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Eric Smalley	Light clock promises finer time Researchers have made a prototype atomic clock that divides time on optical radiation, rather than microwave radiation. Such clocks could eventually improve global positioning systems, make space exploration more accurate, and more accurately test the laws of physics.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004	Photonic Crystal Lasers Juiced Researchers have made a photonic crystal laser that is driven by electric current. The device could eventually be used as a source of single photons for quantum cryptography and communications devices.
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 John Carey	Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when?
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley	Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004	Crystal structure tunes nanowires A new process that controls the crystal structure of nanowires made from specific semiconductors may enable electronic components, such as light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, with tunable properties.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005	Lasers Built Into Fiber-Optics Researchers have crossed a gas-filled fiber optic laser with ordinary fiber optics to make a Raman laser and a frequency stabilizer -- devices that provide precise control of laser beams.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Liquid Crystal Tunes Fiber Researchers have combined photonic crystal and liquid crystal to make an optical fiber whose properties can change according to temperature. The combination allows the researchers to change the properties of the light inside the fiber.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
Chemistry World July 27, 2006 Tom Westgate	Lasers Make Erbium a Cool Customer A material that gets colder when hit with a laser beam may sound odd, but scientists have found that adding a dash of the metal erbium to certain compounds can turn them into miniature refrigerators.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Saswato Das	Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers Scientists have teleported the quantum state of one trapped ion onto another a meter away
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004	Fiber lasers emerge as strong competitor for future laser weapons They may be applied to jet fighters, land vehicles, and perhaps even man-portable systems. And they even have the potential to edge-out other solid-state laser approaches such as slab lasers and free-electron lasers.
Technology Research News December 19, 2005	Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al.	The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	The Promise of the World's Smallest Lasers Recent advances in power efficiency, design and high temperature functionality have pushed ultra-thin semiconductor lasers closer to real-world utility.
Industrial Physicist Wippich & Dessau	Tunable Lasers and Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors Today, the tunable laser is being tested in many industrial applications, including optical remote sensing, where laser-based systems can provide improved performance over electronic means of measuring strain, temperature, and pressure.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Photonic Crystal Throttles Light Researchers have showed that the spacing of a photonic crystal can be used to control the timing of light emitted by a quantum dot.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research.
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy	Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...
Chemistry World October 2008 Philip Ball	Column: The Crucible Redefining one second of time.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Irregular layout sharpens light Aperiodic photonic crystal could improve devices that shape, detect and filter light, including communications devices like photodetectors, demultiplexers, which sort wavelengths of light, and channel drop filters, which filter out different wavelengths.
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.
Scientific American March 6, 2006 Graham P. Collins	Ion Power In their quest to build a computer that would take advantage of quantum mechanics, physicists are pursuing a number of disparate technologies. Teams working with trapped atomic ions have demonstrated several landmark feats that the other approaches will be hard-pressed to match.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Tiny crystals adjust laser colors It is possible to use a relatively inexpensive material to split and combine lightwaves to change the color of a light signal.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 Eric Smalley	Atomic clock to sync handhelds Its physics package, or atomic works, is about the size of a grain of rice, making it potentially easy to mass produce and integrate with hand-helds and other electronics. It is accurate within 25 microseconds per day, or about a second per 126 years.
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Crystal Shows Colossal Expansion A super-stretchy crystal could help to develop improved coatings for satellites facing the extreme temperature variations of space, according to UK scientists.
Technology Research News June 30, 2004	Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
Chemistry World February 3, 2011 Ben Merison	The mystery of the disappearing crystals UK chemists have analysed a fifty year old sample to find out why and say that it's down to impurities. This takes researchers a step closer to understanding why certain pharmaceutical drugs lose their therapeutic effect.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Lens design promises tight spots A new photonic crystal lens can focus near-field light to a spot one-quarter of the light's wavelength. The device can be used to make smaller, faster computer chips and memory. It could also be used in super-resolution microscopes.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	Light Writes Info Into Atoms Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to transfer information encoded in the properties of photons to atoms.
Popular Mechanics October 30, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot	7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story.
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Crystal shortens infrared waves Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have found a way to make a tungsten photonic crystal emit 1.5 micron lightwaves, which are in the near-infrared, or heat range. This makes it useful for thermal photovoltaic devices, which turn heat into electricity.
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch	New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.