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Self-Cleaning Solar Cells
Large-scale solar installations are most efficient in desert regions where the sun is the strongest. Unfortunately those regions are also clouded with dust that gets into, and...

Nova Explosion Reveals Gamma Rays
Using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite, astronomers have detected gamma rays from a nova for the first time, a...

Glass Target Measures Laser Weapon’s Power
Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies — known as directed energy weapon...

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Using Reverse Engineering to Discover Patent Infringement
Fundamental to building and executing any successful patent licensing program is the ability to find and prove evidence of infringement, often through reverse engineering meth...
Curved light bends the rules
Conventional thinking leads us to believe that light only follows a straight path and that it diffracts as it travels. But some scientists are breaking all the rules by crea...
Sound helps make a better optical clock
Optical fibers are commonly used to transmit information and data via modulated light pulses. Now, however, three researchers at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB),...
Applications abound for newly licensed microLEDs
Communications and life sciences can expect a boost from a newly formed company in Glasgow. In a spinout deal, the University of Strathclyde has formed mLED Ltd., a compa...
Nano light mill motor controlled by wavelength changes
A newly developed light mill could lead to a whole new crop of nanoscale devices, including nanoscale solar light harvesters, nanoelectromechanical systems, and nanobots tha...
An unexpected dark pulse laser
Sometimes what isn’t there can be as interesting as what is. In working to develop mode-locked quantum dot diode lasers, researchers have discovered something unforese...
Ocean Optics LIBS IDs Fake Antiques
To separate authentic ceramic antiques from fakes, nationally recognized antiques appraiser Guan Haisen has employed an Ocean Optics LIBS system, with QE65000 spectrometer, to...
Olympus Scanner Wins 2 Awards
Olympus won a pair of awards at the first European Scanner Contest, which took place May 25-29 in Berlin, running parallel to the 94th annual meeting of the German Society of ...
Multispectral Endoscopes on Horizon
Spectral Molecular Imaging Inc. is to receive National Institutes of Health research funding via a collaboration with Omega Optical Inc. of Brattleboro, Vt. This effort will a...
Lasers Enhance PV Cell Performance
“The laser as an industrial tool is a key technology in the photovoltaics industry,” said Jürgen Stollhof, program manager of Micro Processing at Trumpf Inc.,...
Instruments Chosen for Mars Mission
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint mission to Mars. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup ...
Metrology System Advances Photomasks
Sematech and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) division of Carl Zeiss announced recently that Zeiss’ next-generation photomask registration and overlay metrology...
Laser Etching Process Makes Glass Biochips
Using laser etching, a new process for manufacturing glass biochips for medical engineering has been created by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology IL...
ID’ing Molecules from the Briny Deep
In a pioneering research project, scientists at IBM and the University of Aberdeen have collaborated to “see” the structure of a marine compound from the deepest p...
Lasers Improve Conventional Welding
Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) recently announced two new laser techniques that are improving conventional welding. Laser stabilization makes gas metal-arc welding (GMAW) ...
Building with optical Legos
Just as generations of children have enjoyed stacking and building with plastic Lego toys, scientists are now using light-activated nanoshells as Lego-like building blocks f...
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