Calibrated AFM Offers High Accuracy, Repeatability
Atomic force microscopes (AFM) have come a long way since they were developed in the mid-1980s,...
Imaging Spectrometer Improves Auroral Understanding
Researchers at the University of Illinois are taking a fresh look at auroras. They have developed...
Electrode Improves CCD Sensitivity
Eastman Kodak Co. has developed a technology that increases the sensitivity of its charge-coupled...
Researchers Introduce Fluorescent Chemical Weapons Detector
Chemists at the University of Maryland in College Park have developed a method for detecting lethal...
China May Be Building a Laser to Target US Satellites
The Chinese government may be building a high-power laser with the ability to destroy US military...
Compact Device Measures Electrical Current
Harsh environments and confined spaces are no match for an optical fiber-based current sensor that...
Dye Improves Efficiency of Organic LEDs
A team of researchers from Princeton University in New Jersey has improved the efficiency of...
Diode Laser Simultaneously Emits at Three Wavelengths
Federico Capasso and a team of researchers at Bell Labs have demonstrated a semiconductor laser...
Zeiss to Build Ring Laser Gyroscope
The Federal Cartography and Geodesy Office in Frankfurt, Germany, has commissioned Carl Zeiss Inc....
Researchers Alter Rare-Earth Metals
Researchers from Vrije University have created an optical method of monitoring the hydrogen...
University Unveils Sensitive Microscope for Chip Inspection
A technician at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, has built a microscope powerful enough to...
Researchers Report Findings on Trapping and Cooling Molecules
Researchers have long been interested in the ability to trap and cool molecules to facilitate...
System Measures Efficiency of Solar Cells
Physicists at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation have developed a technique to measure...
UV Lasers Stop People in Their Tracks
Mork from Ork could freeze people in midaction with a simple point of his alien finger --...
Optical System Speeds Automatic Target Recognition
Hoping to overcome the limitations previously associated with automated target recognition, Litton...
Flat Photomultiplier Tube Peeks out of the Lab
Hamamatsu K.K. in Japan recently unveiled a showstopper commercial product for the new millennium:...
3-D Enhances Videoconferencing
By 2010, the boundaries among communications, computing and broadcasting will be hard to discern....
WDM Enables High-Capacity System
Alcatel Optronics has demonstrated the simultaneous transmission of more than 15 million voice...
Sensors Detect Biological Weapons
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a lightweight, fully automatic...