Laser Ablation Generates Nanoparticles
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nanoparticles are finding diverse application as devices such as biological...
Is the Airborne Laser Allergic to Dust?
NEGEV, Israel -- America's $11.3 billion Airborne Laser missile defense program could be defeated...
Cameras Promise a Look at Space Experiments
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- One justification for the multibillion-dollar International Space Station...
Thermal Detector Studies the Sun
WOBURN, Mass. -- Changes in the sun's luminosity may affect the global climate over a timescale of...
Light Drives Molecular Piston
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Advancing the development of micromachines, researchers from the...
Laser Light Enables 3-D Doping
KONSTANZ, Germany -- Laser diodes, light-emitting diodes and photovoltaic cells all have one thing...
Multispectral Images Expose City Dynamics
Using data from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer aboard NASA's...
Fringe Technology Benefits Interferometric Lithography
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Like the circuitry on integrated chips, the periodic stripes etched on...
Hologram on Display in Texas
The first of three sections of a "Texas-size" hologram has been installed over the baggage claim...
Imaging Finds Defects in Tiles
BRISTOL, UK -- A challenge for tile manufacturers is detecting hard-to-spot defects and blemishes...
Interference Challenges Quantum Computing
A research team at the University of Rochester in New York has demonstrated that computing by...
Free-Electron Laser Reaches Saturation
A research team at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., has reported saturation at the...
Infrared Ovens Make Quick Work of Asphalt Testing
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- No one likes driving on a road pitted with ruts and potholes. One way to...
Light Powers Micromachines
SUDBURY, Ontario, Canada -- Machines based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and...
Multispectral Imaging Reopens Old Texts
PROVO, Utah -- Our record of Western antiquity is a piecemeal assemblage of oral traditions, myths...
Satellite Carries Laser Experiment
A 1400-lb satellite carrying an experimental laser communications package has been successfully...
Better Robots See like a Spider
PASADENA, Calif. -- How do you increase resolution and decrease fixed pattern noise in a robot's...
Quantum Wells Stack Up
OTTAWA -- Although single-channel quantum-well infrared photodetector arrays have arrived on the...