Aircraft Prepared for Antimissile Laser
Over the next 18 months, a 747-400 freighter aircraft in Wichita, Kan., will be modified to destroy...
Artificial Vision Lets Blind See
NEW YORK -- After more than 25 years of total blindness, a 62-year-old retired state worker can...
Fluorescence Gets Easier to Measure
BALTIMORE -- Measurements of fluorescence lifetimes provide important information about...
Near-IR Diodes Help Make Gas-Trace Measurement Faster
MUNICH, Germany -- In our everyday lives, we all are exposed to "BTX" -- air pollutants that are...
Porous Gold Nanostructures Perform Light Tricks
NEWARK, Del. -- The optical properties of a newly developed nanoporous gold material with...
Rapid Spectral Imaging Determines Grapes' Ripeness
PITTSBURGH -- In the long history of winemaking, determining when to harvest the grapes has been a...
Lidar Technique Refines Aerosol Data
Measuring the impact of man-made aerosols on global climate change may become a little more...
Mode-Locked Laser Tackles Raman Spectroscopy
AUSTIN, Texas -- Researchers at the University of Texas have taken the first steps toward...
Nakamura's Diodes Display True Blue Emission
Researchers from Nichia Corp. in Anan, Japan, including the company's former head of research and...
Nanocrystals Outshine Laser Dyes
JERUSALEM -- Semiconductor nanocrystals fabricated at Hebrew University produce a bright...
Optical Systems Created with Microlenses
A research team from the Universität Mannheim in Germany has produced micro-objectives with a...
Interferometer Modified for Orbit
An improved mount for a Fabry-Perot interferometer promises to reduce distortion in the etalon and...
Organic Material Offers Fast Response
YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Because of their low cost and good manufacturability, organic photoconductors...
Two Lasers Pump Atoms Through Nanotubes
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Scanning tunneling microscopes can deposit individual atoms on surfaces,...
Mini-Robot Helps Keep Mission on Track
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Even while orbiting high above the atmosphere in the International Space...
Thin Films Yield High-Efficiency Solar Cell
A polycrystalline photovoltaic cell described in the October 1999 issue of Progress in...
Researchers Seek Superconduction Secrets
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, a tool that helped define semiconductor physics, is...
Laser Used for Sensitive Trace Analysis
ARGONNE, Ill. -- Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have demonstrated an ultrasensitive...