Blue OLEDs Improved
Dec. 31, 2008
By setting an efficiency record for blue organic LEDs (OLEDs), researchers say they are closer to...
NIST Cracks Tough Nut
Dec. 30, 2008
A technique discovered by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
Cosmic Revelers Ring in 2009
Dec. 30, 2008
Stargazers across the globe are gearing up for the International Year of Astronomy. A staggering...
LEDs Brighten New Year's Eve
Dec. 30, 2008
The 2008 New Year's Eve Times Square Ball will be double the size of the 2007 ball and will...
GSI Restructuring Laser Unit
Dec. 29, 2008
In a cost-cutting move, GSI Group Inc., a maker of precision motion products, lasers and laser...
Volcano Acquires Axsun
Dec. 29, 2008
Volcano Corp. has announced that it will acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a privately held maker of...
26-GHz Graphene Transistor
Dec. 23, 2008
IBM scientists from the company's T.J. Waston Research Center have demonstrated the operation of...
Fiber Helps Track Santa
Dec. 23, 2008
Fighter jets, satellites, radar systems and a high-speed fiber optic network will be used by to...
New Laser Type Discovered
Dec. 22, 2008
The discovery that a quantum cascade laser can generate a second beam with very unusual properties...
OLED Christmas Tree Displayed
Dec. 19, 2008
The first organic LED (OLED) Christmas tree lighting took place recently at General Electric Co.'s...
Nanoimaging Center Opens
Dec. 19, 2008
The University of Southern California (USC) has opened a nanoimaging center for scientists and...
11M Electron Volts Achieved
Dec. 18, 2008
UK scientists have successfully demonstrated energy recovery on the Alice (Accelerators and Lasers...
Bottoms Up: Zinc Oxide Glows
Dec. 18, 2008
A compound commonly used on babies' bottoms has been made to produce brilliant light best suited to...
Radio Harvests Energy
Dec. 18, 2008
If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine...
Clear Transistors Printed
Dec. 17, 2008
Using a low-temperature process, engineers have printed a lattice of more than 20,000 n-type and...
China Puts Atoms on a Chip
Dec. 16, 2008
Researchers in China have successfully developed the country's first atom-chip system -- a...
Metamaterial Puzzle Solved
Dec. 16, 2008
Researchers have solved one of the significant remaining challenges with photonic “metamaterials,”...
Murder-Suicide at Lockheed
Dec. 16, 2008
A contract security guard at Lockheed Martin's Archbald facility fatally shot an employee Tuesday...
Photronics’ New Credit Deal
Dec. 15, 2008
Photronics Inc., developer of reticles and photomasks for semiconductor and microelectronics...
Laser Gets Some Bling
Dec. 15, 2008
A team of physicists at Macquarie University in Sydney has built the first diamond laser using a...
Kollmorgen Nets $9M Contract
Dec. 15, 2008
Kollmorgen Electro-Optical Corp. has been awarded a $9.3 million US Navy contract for work...
Obama Taps Nobel Physicist
Dec. 12, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has announced that Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu has been...
Abengoa’s 280mW Solar Plant
Dec. 11, 2008
Abengoa Solar has received a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility from the Arizona...
Sony Cuts 8000 Jobs
Dec. 10, 2008
In a bid to cut costs by $1.1 billion a year, Japanese consumer electronic giant, Sony Corp., is...
Silicon APD Outperforms InP
Dec. 10, 2008
By creating a silicon photonics device that outperforms traditional avalanche photodetectors...
A Quantum Memory Boost
Dec. 9, 2008
Physicists have taken a significant step toward creation of quantum networks by establishing a new...
Nanotech: A Cultural Divide
Dec. 8, 2008
According to an experiment, conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in...
Strained Quantum Dots Shine
Dec. 8, 2008
Quantum dots, tiny luminescent particles made of semiconductors, hold promise for detecting and...
Textron Pens $21M Deal
Dec. 5, 2008
Textron Defense Systems (TDS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, announced that it has signed...
Kopin Microdisplay Nets $3M
Dec. 4, 2008
Kopin Corp. announced it has received a three-year, $3.1 million government contract to develop the...
Argon Nabs $30M Navy Deal
Dec. 4, 2008
Argon ST Inc., developer of command, control, communications, computers, combat systems,...
2-D Superconductor Revealed
Dec. 3, 2008
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Brookhaven National Laboratory say that new...
Light Positions Particles
Dec. 3, 2008
Light created by lasers and holograms has been used to precisely position many tiny particles...
II-VI Lowers Q2, 2009 Outlook
Dec. 3, 2008
Citing "unprecedented changes in the economy" both in and outside the US, II-VI Inc. President and...
Ocean Optics Acquires Unit
Dec. 2, 2008
Ocean Optics Inc. has acquired the Oerlikon Optics business unit in Golden, Colo. for an...
Making a Perfect Cat’s Eye
Dec. 1, 2008
Recent research into the development of invisibility devices has spurred two physicists to...