Multispectral Microscopy Accelerates
MILWAUKEE -- Multispectral microscopy provides information about the spatial variation in...
Büchi Opens Spectroscopy Competition
Büchi Labortechnik AG of Flawil, Switzerland, is accepting applications for its award...
Bugs Lead the Way to Better Detectors
BONN, Germany -- Photonics regularly draws the inspiration for new technologies from the natural...
Quantum Cascade Laser Operates at Room Temperature
Researchers from Thales Corporate Research in Orsay, France, have developed a GaAs-based quantum...
CoO Infiltration Enhances YIG Films
A team at the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi, India, has developed films of infiltrated...
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Delayed
An accident during prelaunch testing has delayed the test flight of the Cosmos 1, which was...
Acousto-Optic Effect Studied
Gradients of acoustic pressure in nematic liquid crystal, known as acoustic streaming, are...
Lidar Finds Fish from the Air
BOULDER, Colo. -- Since antiquity, man has pondered the question: How many fish are lurking in the...
Photochemical Etching Developed for GaN
A wet photochemical etching technique promises to ease the production of devices fabricated from...
Gas Purifiers Improve Film Growth
Aeronex Inc. of San Diego has announced the completion of a one-year study with the University of...
Night-Vision Goggles Spot Radiation
WARRINGTON, UK -- Tinkering with an old phenomenon in physics, designers are tackling a modern...
Lidar Takes the Sky's Temperature
URBANA, Ill. -- For climatologists, a key question isn't how high is the sky, but how hot is the...
Machine Vision Aids Lifeguards
BEVERLY, Mass. -- Despite their best efforts, lifeguards cannot monitor every swimmer in a loud,...
Micro-Optics Enable Microsatellites
IRVINE, Calif. -- Microsatellites are gaining acceptance in the aerospace community as potential...
Wrinkling Puts Light Mirrors in Doubt
Engineers may have to look elsewhere for lightweight mirrors for the next generation of space...
Handwashing Olympics Highlights Hygiene
WASHINGTON -- According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dirty hands are...
International Sematech to Upgrade Microstepper
International Sematech of Austin, Texas, a consortium of 13 semiconductor chip manufacturers, has...
Laser Measures Shiny Objects in 3-D
OKAYAMA, Japan -- Laser rangefinders can be used to precisely determine the three-dimensional...
Vision System Identifies Sleepy Drivers
ACTON, Australia -- Car accidents happen in the blink of an eye, and the more that eyes blink or...
Single-Molecule Study Exposes Glass Dynamics
AUSTIN, Texas -- Glasses and noncrystalline materials have been important to humans for thousands...
Fluorescence Sampling Targets Oil Spills
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia -- Oil spills happen nearly every day throughout the world, but only a...
Thermal Imager Passes Test
The Aero 20/2X thermal imaging system designed for law enforcement, aerial inspection, and search...
Tweezers May Power Micromachines
ST. ANDREWS, UK -- A team at St. Andrews University has demonstrated a variant of optical tweezers...
Two Fibers Enhance Monitoring
MILWAUKEE -- Fiber optic sensors containing probes that react to a triggering event such as a...