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Visit BaySpec at The 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
Posted on 26-08-2009

 BaySpec will be exhibiting again at the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, on the Stanford University campus, September 9-11, 2009.    In addition, ...
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Engineer Creates Lower-Cost Printable Solar Cells
Posted on 25-08-2009

Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricit...
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Research Aiding in Development of Artificial Photovoltaic Devices
Posted on 24-08-2009

A Kansas State University professor has a grant to study an area of physical chemistry that will provide more insight into the electronic structure and energy transfer processes in natural and artific...
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Flexible Uses for Micro-LEDs
Posted on 21-08-2009

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Aug. 21, 2009 – By printing large arrays of ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic LEDs and interconnecting them using thin-film processing, materials scientists have combined the adva...
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Imaging Reveals Hidden Art
Posted on 20-08-2009

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2009 – Scientists have reported the use of a new x-ray imaging technique to reveal, for the first time in a century, unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath anoth...
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Controlling light becomes crystal clear
Posted on 19-08-2009

A simple way to fabricate 3D photonic crystals could find applications in next-generation laser diodes, LEDs and solar cells.Many optical scientists and engineers consider 3D photonic crystals the ide...
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New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies
Posted on 16-08-2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "...
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New laser technique may help find supernova
Posted on 11-08-2009

One single atom of a certain isotope of hafnium found on Earth would prove that a supernova once exploded near our solar system. The problem is how to find such an atom - among billions of others. Res...
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Global Silicon Photonics Product Market Expect to Reach US$1.95 Billion by 2014
Posted on 10-08-2009

According to a new market research report, 'Global Silicon Photonics Market, 2009 - 2014, published by MarketsandMarkets, the total global silicon photonics product market is expected to be worth US$1...
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Picosecond lasers: the power of cold ablation
Posted on 07-08-2009

Picosecond lasers are a universal tool for ablating almost any material without the downsides of unwanted thermal side-effects. Bernhard Klimt and colleagues at LUMERA LASER explain how cold ablation ...
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Queens develops first photonic crystal for space
Posted on 07-08-2009

Queen's University Belfast has developed the first quasi-optical frequency selective surface (FSS) that can simultaneously filter both horizontally and vertically polarised sub-millimetre wave si...
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Effects of 'strong coupling' observed for the first time between light and a micromechanical object
Posted on 06-08-2009

PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonat...
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Innovation: lasers for materials processing
Posted on 06-08-2009

A round-up of new laser system products for materials processing applications.Photovoltaics manufacturing Jenoptik (www.jenoptik.com) Jenoptik's Lasers and Materials Processing Division, Germany, is ...
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Nano-lens goes cup-shaped
Posted on 05-08-2009

Self-assembled device overcomes diffraction limit of light and resolves features as small as 200 nm.A new type of self-assembled nano-lens that overcomes the diffraction limit of light has been d...
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Photonic circuits move on
Posted on 04-08-2009

Kyoto University researchers manipulate photons at the surface of a photonic crystal for the first time Researchers in Japan are the first to show that photons can be manipulated at the surface of...
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