Laser Aims to Reduce Ceramic Costs
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Because of their exceptional hardness, resistance to wear and stability at...
1.8-W Diode to Pump Fiber Amplifiers
CANBERRA, Australia -- Researchers at Australian National University have created a high-power...
Laser Display Challenges Cathode-Ray Tubes
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A new display technology is looking to upstage the cathode-ray tube. Researchers...
Dopant Level Improves Organic LEDs
A team from Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich, Institut Ackermannweg in Mainz and...
Glasses Make Versatile Crystals
SOUTHAMPTON, UK -- Photonic quasicrystals with complete bandgaps can be made in glasses that are...
Gold Clusters Are Optically Active
ATLANTA -- Metals, as a rule, do not display optical activity. So researchers at the Georgia...
IR Imager Uses Missile Technology
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A form of infrared imaging developed by the military for heat-seeking...
Old LPs Find New Use in X-Ray Optics
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- In trying to develop a cheap way to focus x-rays, perhaps it should be no...
Lunar Glass Beads Offer Clues to Craters
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Comets and asteroids have bombarded the moon and Earth over the last 3 billion...
New Technology: Pen on Paper
LUND, Sweden -- Let's face it. No matter how much technology advances in the computer world, many...
Plastic Film Makes for Light Travel
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Moving mass into space is an expensive proposition. The Next Generation Space...
Polymers Improve Electro-Optics
SEATTLE -- Larry Dalton runs short treks into the future. It's a world of unlimited bandwidth, a...
Raman Spectroscopy Opens the Earth's Core
Researchers from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon...
Readers Bridge the Net and Print Gap
A microelectromechanical scanning reader under development by Microvision Inc. of Bothell, Wash.,...
Silicon Crystal Is Cheap, Simple
TORONTO -- Researchers in Canada and Spain have overcome the obstacles to develop a...
Laser Spot Aims at Storage Market
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- A relatively simple solution to the problem of reducing a laser's spot size...
Sputtering Yields 3200-GHz Filter
Advanced Lighting Technologies Inc. of Cleveland has announced that its subsidiary Deposition...
Strip Coating Makes the Grade
A study of the reformulated Opticlean strip coating, distributed by Dantronix Research and...