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Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Laser Tweezer Grabs Varied Specks Researchers have advanced the use of optical tweezers with a method that allows them to simultaneously trap and independently manipulate microscopic materials that have different indices of refraction. |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers. |
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. |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Hologram makes fast laser tweezer The researchers devised an algorithm that works quickly enough to control the light beam interactively with a keyboard and mouse. |
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 December 17, 2003 |
Chip uses oil to move droplets Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a way to manipulate tiny droplets and particles on a chip. Key to the system is suspending what needs to be moved in a heavier liquid. |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright. |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 |
Lasers tweeze every which way Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have found a way to use a pair of laser beams to rotate an object in three dimensions, turning it like a ball rather than a wheel. |
Chemistry World November 3, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Antimatter Cancer Treatment Researchers working at Cern's particle accelerator laboratory have just reported a successful first experiment into the biological effects of antiproton radiation on living cells. A US biotech firm already owns the intellectual property rights on the development of an antiproton clinic. |
PC World February 20, 2002 Kuriko Miyake |
Terabyte Optical Disc in Development Optware refines holographic technology so disc can store more than 100 DVDs... |
Chemistry World August 3, 2012 Andrew Extance |
Gel polymer seizes shadow With just a slight dip in a tungsten filament bulb's intensity, Canadian researchers have created channels that light can't enter. |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Technique detects quantum state Researchers from the University of Rome in Italy have pushed theorized "perfect" quantum cryptography schemes forward by demonstrating a method for detecting quantum entanglement among subatomic particles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller |
Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets. |
Popular Mechanics November 2009 Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes. |
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. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2010 James Urquhart |
Aerosol theory solidifies An international team of researchers has found that atmospheric aerosol particles long thought to be liquid can in fact be amorphous solids. The discovery could improve atmospheric models and climate predictions. |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 |
Nanoparticles Drive Display Researchers have developed a technology that has the potential to provide inexpensive, low-power, color electronic paper. The new scheme uses neutral rather than charged particles dispersed in liquid. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2012 Steve Down |
Single particles take flight An international team of researchers has developed a way to study the shape and structure of individual aerosol particles in their native environment. This should help climate modellers and toxicologists to get a better handle on why aerosols behave in the way they do. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Keller |
Laser pointer or terrorist threat? Several recent incidents in which aircraft pilots claim to have been temporarily blinded by laser beams are igniting debate over whether legally obtained laser pointers in the wrong hands could be considered terrorist weapons. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller |
Air Force Seeks to Develop Phased-Array Lasers for Weapons and Communications U.S. military researchers are looking into ways of steering laser beams from flat arrays of optical emitters, in much the same way that phased-array radar systems steer radar beams without the need of a rotating platform. |
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It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Light frozen in place Researchers at Harvard University have trapped and held a light pulse still for a few hundredths of a millisecond. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Joseph Calamia |
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams |
Chemistry World May 3, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Particle Physics Gets Smaller Plans for a prototype of an unusually simple, small particle accelerator have been unveiled by the University of Manchester. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing |
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 July 13, 2005 |
Magnetics Drives Particle Patterns Researchers have devised a way to use electric and magnetic fields to assemble magnetic microparticles into a wide variety of patterns, including clusters, rings, chains and networks. |
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 |
Bits & Bites v25n19 Intel and researchers have developed a silicon chip that can produce laser beams. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2014 Katie Bayliss |
Colloidal caterpillars get a wiggle on Researchers have devised a new method to transport micro cargo -- by attaching it to chains of colloidal particles that wiggle their way through liquid crystals. |
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. |
Chemistry World March 20, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Medical Probes Get Easy to Spot Scientists in the US have created nano-scale medical probes that are visible via both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optical microscopy. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Smart Dust Gets Magnetic One of the main challenges in making labs-on-a-chip is finding ways to control and mix tiny amounts of liquids. Researchers are using minuscule silicon particles to carry out these tasks. |
InternetNews August 3, 2010 |
Tech Firms Split on Paying for Security Flaws Some major IT firms have made it a standard practice to pay security researchers for bringing vulnerabilities to their attention, while others have a strict prohibition against it. What accounts for the divide? |
Chemistry World September 5, 2011 David Bradley |
Spiders, Grubbs' and polymer-powered nanomotors A chemical spider that spins a polymer thread using a simple catalyst could drive a nanomotor, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University, US. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2006 Jon Evans |
Brownian motion slips into reverse An electrical device for suppressing Brownian motion has been used to trap proteins, viruses and semiconductor nanocrystals. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. |
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. |
Chemistry World November 2, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Nanoparticle detector promises fast virus identification The technique, developed by US researchers, can discriminate between different viruses and is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single virus particle. |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
Chip-camera combo tracks viruses Researchers from Purdue University have devised methods of labeling virus structural elements and DNA, of imaging virus particles as they flow through labs-on-a-chip, and of concentrating virus particles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
Optical Interconnect Withstands Harsh Environments The PRO BEAM connector series from Tyco Electronics is a fiber-optic interconnect designed specifically for fast data connections where resistance to severe environmental conditions is paramount. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
Plastic Cuts Artificial Hip Wear Researchers coated a polyethylene artificial hip socket with a biocompatible polymer molecule they had previously developed, and found that the joint produced fewer wear particles. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2012 James Urquhart |
Two-faced particles self-assemble in sync US scientists have synchronized the motion of colloidal magnetic spheres with a rotating magnetic field and found that the particles self-organize into micrometer-sized tubes. |