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Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Nanocrystals Spark Efficient LEDs Researchers have found a way to make highly efficient light-emitting diodes from nanocrystals, or tiny bits of semiconductor.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Process orders nanowire arrays Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Stamp Forms Organic Laser Researchers have found a class of materials that promises to improve organic electronic components like lasers, light-emitting diodes, and waveguides. Light-emitting diodes are a key component of computer screens, and waveguides channel light.
Technology Research News November 19, 2003	Plastic display circuit shines Researchers from the University of Tokyo have taken a step forward by fabricating on a glass surface a circuit that contains an organic light-emitting diode and an organic thin-film transistor. The diode was bright enough to be used in a display, according to the researchers.
Chemistry World May 2, 2010 Mike Brown	OLETs have bright future in electronic lasers Scientists in Italy have developed organic light-emitting transistors that are more efficient light sources than organic light-emitting diodes, and could be used in much sought after electrically pumped organic laser devices.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Lens Boosts LED Efficiency One-fifth of the electricity consumed in the U.S. is used for lighting. Researchers have come up with a way to boost light emitted from white light-emitting diodes by as much as 60%.
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 June 29, 2005	Crystal promises more light Spontaneous emission from chip-based devices like light-emitting diodes can lower efficiency and create noise. Researchers have created a device that can harness the energy from the emissions and put them towards positive ends.
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.
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Mike Brown	Carbon nanotubes in large panel displays US researchers have incorporated carbon nanotubes into organic light-emitting transistors to create devices that rival the performance of their silicon counterparts.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	LED Array Turned Into Touch Button This researcher is using a grid of light-emitting diodes, which are widely used as light sources, as an input device.
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Electricity shapes nano plastic Plastic is a popular material for electronics these days because it's light and flexible. But today's chipmaking processes tend toward hard crystals, not soft polymers. A method that yields microscopic plastic structures could help, and it's based on a readily-available resource -- electricity.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley	Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Electric fields assemble devices Several research teams are working to bring the concept of self assembly to larger scales.
Chemistry World October 31, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Organic LEDs set to become displays' flexible friend Researchers in Canada have created organic light-emitting diodes on flexible plastic substrates that retain the high efficiency of their non-flexible counterparts.
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 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.
Technology Research News June 30, 2004	Paper promises better e-paper It is clear that computer displays will someday be thin and flexible enough to roll up, enabled by plastic electronics.
Technology Research News July 14, 2004	Nanorods gain gold tips The rods and tetrapods could eventually serve as ultra-small transistors, memory elements, light-emitting elements and sensors in nanoelectronic and optoelectronic circuitry.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Hydrogen yields smaller nanowires Researchers from City University of Hong Kong in China have produced silicon wires that are smaller than any made before.
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley	Angle speeds plastic transistor Going with the flow is a good way to pick up speed, particularly for plastic transistors. Rotating the crystal 180 degrees can change the transistor's performance by as much as 3.5 times.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Silicon nanocrystal transistor shines A nanocrystal field-effect light-emitting device (FELED) could be used to integrate light sources on computer chips. This would allow the light sources and control circuits of display and communications device to be fabricated together, making for a faster, cheaper manufacturing process.
Chemistry World November 23, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	OLED Chemists Have a Bright Idea Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can be made more cheaply and easily thanks to a new molecule made by Chinese chemists.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004	Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.
Chemistry World June 17, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Nanoboxes given optoelectronic function Scientists in the US have folded a nanoscale wafer of aluminium oxide, with a pattern of gold on its surface, into a hollow cube, creating a tiny optoelectronic device.
Chemistry World October 17, 2010 Laura Howes	Twist and shine An international team of researchers has developed flexible sheets of tiny light emitting diodes that could be implanted under the skin like glowing tattoos and used in a range of biomedical applications.
Technology Research News July 13, 2005	Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005	Templates yield nano branches Making highly-branched nanoscale tubes and wires is a matter of easing off the juice by the right amount at the right time.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Prachi Patel Predd	Beyond Blue High-definition DVD movies and players based on blue lasers have only just arrived on the market, but already a new generation is in sight, promising another fivefold increase in storage density. The key to making UV-emitting devices is likely to be zinc oxide.
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
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Tiny transistors sniff chemicals Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that the chemical sensing abilities of infinitesimally small transistors made from thin films of the organic crystal pentacene are quite different from those of larger transistors made from the same materials.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Scheme Optimizes Light Chips Researchers have borrowed a design tool developed for mechanical engineering to improve the efficiency of nano-size optical waveguides.
Chemistry World July 29, 2013 Andy Extance	First polymer LED that stays lit up when stretched and scrunched Researchers in Europe and Japan say that they have produced the first polymer organic light-emitting diodes that can be stretched while lit.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Chemists grow nano menagerie Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have found a simple way to make tiny, complicated shapes from zinc oxide, including arrays of vertically-aligned rods, flat disks, and columns that resemble stacks of coins.
Technology Research News April 7, 2004	Nano ribbons coil into rings Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to coax microscopic zinc oxide ribbons to spontaneously coil, slinky-like, into perfect rings.
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?
Popular Mechanics January 2007 John Matson	Tech Watch: Theater Home A new wave of ultra-efficient light-emitting diodes could one day turn your entire house into a flat-panel display.
AskMen.com Karin Eldor	The Best Lamps For Your Pad Combine stylish lamps with practical lighting arrangements, and you'll discover a whole other meaning to "and then there was light."
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Oil and Water Drive Display Researchers from Extreme Photonix and the University of Cincinnati have combined water and oil in a technology that promises bright, energy-efficient displays.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Surface-Mount RGB LED for High-Intensity Colors LEDtronics is offering the SML505RBG1K-TR low-profile surface-mount red, green, and blue light-emitting diode (RGB LED), which provide high visibility in a size of 5.5 by 5.5 millimeters.
Chemistry World October 17, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Shining a New Light on Nanowires Scientists have created tiny solar power cells using silicon nanowires 200 times thinner than a human hair. The cells could provide renewable energy for both nano- and large-scale applications.
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.
The Motley Fool September 12, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Very, Very, Very Fine Print IBM announces a new nanoscale "printing" technique, which it believes will enable breakthroughs in ultra-tiny computer chips, biosensors, and optics. Investors should take note.
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Micro marbles make nano rings Using chemical methods, researchers have found a cheaper way to make nanoscale rings. The rings can then be used to make materials to bend light.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Nano Memory Scheme Handles Defects Nanoscale electronics devices promise ultra-high speed at ultra-low power, but have a fairly high defect rate. Architectures designed to guide their use must take this into account.
The Motley Fool November 7, 2006 Anders Bylund	You'll Hear More About Universal Display In the absence of major news, the next-generation display specialist just turned in a respectable quarter, well ahead of expectations.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng	The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004	Nanotube diode reverses itself A minuscule p-n junction diode that could be used as a field-effect transistor or a light-emitting diode is a step forward in the push to make nanoscale electronic components.