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Technology Research News March 23, 2005 |
Microdroplet makes mighty microscope Researchers from the University of Maryland have found a way to reach nanometer-scale resolution using something called far-field optics.  |
Chemistry World May 1, 2012 David Bradley |
A colorful way to size up nanoparticles Researchers in China have now developed a straightforward light-scattering technique to estimate the size of gold nanoparticles in the 35 to 110nm range.  |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.  |
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 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 November 19, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Switch promises optical chips Computers have historically been electronic rather than photonic because lightwaves, while great for sending signals over long distances, are controlled by equipment that has proven difficult to shrink to computer chip scale. The rise of photonic crystals promises to narrow the gap.  |
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 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 June 16, 2011 |
Plasmon Rulers Measure in 3D Plasmon rulers made out of gold nanorods could help researchers understand how DNA or proteins fold.  |
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  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Silicon Ring Boosts Light Chips Researchers have developed an all-optical switch that is made from silicon and is small enough to be made by the thousands on computer chips.  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2012 James Urquhart |
Liquid Gallium Lights Up US researchers have developed a nanomoulding technique for patterning liquid gallium that enables surface plasmons to become excited using visible light.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World October 30, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
A new way to convert light to electricity By shining light onto metallic nanoparticles, researchers in the US and the Netherlands have demonstrated an entirely new way to generate electrical energy  |
Chemistry World July 16, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Nanoparticles show 'inverse photoconductance' Chemists in the US have created the first material to exhibit 'inverse photoconductance', in which conductance decreases with exposure to visible light.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.  |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 |
Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Neil Savage |
Plasmonic Imager Could Slim Down Spy Satellites But even its developers are far from knowing if it will work.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News May 15, 2006 Eric Smalley |
ICL's John Pendry An interview with the condensed matter theorist who has conducted extensive research on the interaction of electrons and photons with surfaces.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World March 12, 2013 Andy Extance |
'Plasmonic smart dust' conjures kinetics clues Researchers exploited gold's ability to trap and concentrate light, creating oscillations in the electron cloud at its surface called surface plasmons.  |
Bio-IT World October 14, 2004 Robert M. Frederickson |
Nanosphere Strikes Gold Recently, scientists at Nanosphere developed a colorimetric method for DNA detection that obviates the need for target or signal amplification.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.  |
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 Andy Extance |
Surface plasmons create vivid holograms Plasmons are "quasiparticles" that are observed when electrons in a metal collectively oscillate at light wave frequency.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World September 23, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles Hide Behind Protein Cloak Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown.  |
InternetNews April 21, 2004 Clint Boulton |
Plasmon Pads Archiving Portfolio The optical storage provider buys rival Raidtec to beef up its storage networking hardware line.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Karn & Matthews |
Nano Particles Without Macroproblems Quick and dirty advice for keeping nanotech clean.  |