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Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Nano triangles concentrate light An extremely small gold bowtie nanoantenna that focuses visible and near-infrared light to extremely small, intense spots of light could eventually be used to allow microscopes to focus at the nanoscale. Researchers hope to have a practical implementation built within a year.
Chemistry World March 6, 2007 Kira Welter	Nano-Objects Under the Light Microscope Scientists have developed a lens that can transmit images over long distances with a resolution that is not restricted by light wavelength.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Microscope Etches Ultrathin Lines Researchers have shown that it is possible to match electron beam resolution for organic materials using an ultraviolet laser shown through a near-field optical microscope.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Thin Silver Sheet Makes Superlens Researchers have fashioned a superlens from a thin sheet of silver that resolves images as small as 60 nanometers using 365-nanometer light.
PC Magazine June 8, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Sharper Image at Nanoscale Scientists have created a superlens that overcomes a limitation in physics that has constrained the resolution of optical images.
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 April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley	Silver bits channel nano light Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have found a way to guide near-field light over short distances through channels that are several times narrower than the wavelengths of light.
Chemistry World January 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	'Ultimate Microscope' in Sight Scientists have announced a breakthrough in x-ray microscopy which could be used to picture individual atoms in living cells without using a lens.
Chemistry World March 22, 2007 Tom Westgate	The Metamaterials Space Race The technology that makes invisibility shields a theoretical possibility took a major step forward with reports of a material that bends visible light away from itself.
Chemistry World October 29, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Laser Hits the Right Spot for Chemical Analysis Scientists have developed a 'laser nanoantenna' that could significantly boost the level of detail available to tabletop microscopes.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Springs simplify micromirror arrays Adaptive optics correct light waves that have been distorted, usually by the atmosphere, by bouncing them off a mirror that rapidly changes shape to produce clearer images or signals.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005	Textures ID paper and plastic Forgeries, however clever, could be a thing of the past thanks to a method of uniquely identifying paper and plastic surfaces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications "Negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications could lead to better communications and imaging technologies.
Chemistry World July 17, 2008 Ruth Tunnell	Uncovering the Hidden Nanoworld A new type of x-ray microscope allows scientists to peer inside nanodevices without opening them up.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 Eric Smalley	Atomic scopes eye living tissue Researchers have used a scanning probe microscope to look at the structure of a butterfly's wing at a resolution of five nanometers -- just two and a half times the width of DNA molecule -- proving that it is possible to use these microscopes to analyze material from living systems.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Eric J. Lerner	News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 J R Minkel	A Tabletop UV Microscope With the recent demonstration of a high-resolution ultraviolet microscope that fits on a tabletop, semiconductor manufacturing and basic science researchers alike may soon have a far easier time getting the images they need.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Saswato Das	Two-Laser Lithography Shrinks Transistors A new microscopy technique gets adapted for chipmaking
Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003	Nano rapid prototyping advances Rapid prototyping -- using lasers to harden liquid plastic into three-dimensional shapes -- has been around for a couple of decades, but lately researchers have been working to scale the process down to the realm of nanotechnology.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 Eric Smalley	Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light.
Technology Research News July 16, 2003	Jet-laser tandem prints gold Researchers have found a way to print gold structures. The researchers suspended gold nanoparticles, which have a lower melting point then bulk gold, in a solution and used a modified ink-jet printer to print patterns of the solution onto a surface.
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes	Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser.
Chemistry World November 5, 2013	A close look at microscopy Atomic force microscopy is widely used in materials science and is beginning to be adopted in life science too.
Popular Mechanics September 2009	5 Metamaterials That Make Matter Invisible, Silent or Blindingly Fast When nature can't supply raw ingredients for next-generation hardware, scientists create their own.
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.
Chemistry World October 8, 2014	Super-resolution light microscopy wins chemistry Nobel The 2014 chemistry Nobel prize has been given to three pioneers of biomedical imaging, whose work has enabled nanoscale features within cells to be captured in exquisite detail.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
Chemistry World July 14, 2006 Victoria Gill	Ultimate Apex Achieved Researchers have devised a method of coating a tungsten point with a protective layer of nitrogen, which holds all of the metal atoms in place and maintains the tiniest point possible.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Laser Feedback or Calibration System with 1-nm Resolution Optodyne Inc. announced the MCV-600 Nanometer laser system for feedback or calibration of precision stages with nanometer resolution.
Bio-IT World September 16, 2004 Rabiya S. Tuma	Blinded by the Light Myriad advances in light microscopy are increasing resolution, accelerating confocality, improving detection -- and toying with the laws of nature.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Spoke Polarization Tightens Focus Conventional wisdom holds that you can't focus light much beyond half its wavelength, which has computer chipmakers scrambling to work out how to use extreme ultraviolet and x-rays to make smaller circuits. But scientists are coming up with tricks for getting around this not-so-fundamental limit.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart	Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Material Promises Denser DVDs Researchers have found a way to use electron beams to read, write and erase bits. The technology could lead to high-speed, ultrahigh density storage media; the material at the heart of the technology could also be used in solar cells.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Plastic Records Infrared Light Researchers have extended the sensitivity of photorefractive polymers so that they can be used at the common infrared communications frequency of 1550 nanometers.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Laser bursts pierce fog Researchers in France have shown that it is possible to fire laser beams through otherwise impenetrable clouds, haze and fog. This means it could be possible to transmit data through these opaque media and remotely sense objects or chemicals within clouds, haze or fog.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Saswato R. Das	Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across.
Chemistry World October 20, 2006 Tom Westgate	UK Researchers Unveil Country's Most Powerful Microscope For the first time in the UK, researchers will be able to see atoms and the bonds between them, thanks to the brand new FEI Titan 80-300 monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope.
Chemistry World November 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Microscopy Enters the Fourth Dimension Researchers have taken electron microscopy into the fourth dimension, by recording atoms darting around on a surface in real time.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004	Speck trios make secret codes Researchers have devised a way to use quantum dots -- tiny bits of semiconductor -- to print invisible secret codes onto surfaces. The method could be used to authenticate valuable documents like passports and certificates.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Surface Tension Drives Nanomotor Researchers have found a way to harness surface tension to drive nanomachines.
The Motley Fool June 13, 2006 Dan Bloom	Texas Instruments Gets Tinier The company finds a watery way to create smaller, faster, cheaper chips.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch	CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones	Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics
Chemistry World May 26, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Salt nanowire surprise Common table salt - normally a brittle crystalline material - can be pulled into nanowires that will extend by more than twice their own length without breaking
PC World June 18, 2002 Kuriko Miyake	Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches Blue laser technology supports tiny drive for use in phones, PDAs.