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Photonics Spectra - April 2006
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PbTe Quantum Dots Assembled into Superlattices and Glassy Films
A team of investigators from IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Michigan State University in East Lansing and Columbia University in New York has developed techniques for the solution-phase synthesis of PbTe quantum dots that yield either grams of one size of the dots or milligrams of the structures with increasing sizes. Using the quantum dots prepared with these...
Nanoscale Bow Ties Act as Optical Antennas
Researchers at Stanford University in California have used bow-tie-shaped optically resonant metallic structures to create resist features smaller than 30 nm using an 800-nm laser beam in a...
Quantum Dot LEDs Incorporate Thermally Polymerized Hole Transport Layer
Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots show promise for use in optoelectronic devices such as LEDs and solar cells. Now a group led by David S. Ginger and Alex K.-Y. Jen at the University of Washington...
Leave the Driving to Us
After more than 130 miles across dry lake beds, along winding mountain paths and through the rocky wilderness, Stanley emerged from the Mojave Desert to cross the finish line. Beyond the sweetness of...
Photonics Improves Sky Gazing
They may not physically go — boldly or otherwise — where no one has gone before, but astronomers often see what no one has seen before. Thanks to photonic innovations and techniques, the ability to...
Sensing Trace Gases with Quantum Cascade Lasers
Trace-gas sensing is a rapidly developing field, in demand for applications such as breath diagnostics, process and air-quality monitoring, atmospheric measurements, and security and surveillance....
Drift in Cryogenically Cooled Photodetectors: Causes and Cures
Infrared photodetectors benefit greatly from cooling to cryogenic temperatures. For this reason, manufacturers mount the majority of these instruments in evacuated Dewars that use cryogenic coolants...
Electronic Properties of Single Silver Nanoparticles Are Studied
Metallic nanoparticles display potential for such applications as enhancing the fluorescence of biological molecules, but for all the interest, significant questions regarding their properties...
Tandem White-Light Organic LED Displays Gains in Luminance Efficiency
Exploring ways to produce white light from organic LEDs (OLEDs), researchers at National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, have found that stacking two emitters can yield a device with three...
Low-Refractive-Index Nanorod Layer Improves LED Extraction Efficiency
The development of GaN-based LEDs has pushed the emission of these solid-state sources into the blue and ultraviolet and has enabled the production of white-light LEDs, promising benefits in terms of...
ZnO-Based Blue-Violet LEDs Fabricated on Sapphire
inc oxide has been investigated as a green fluorescent material for many years. Now researchers are looking at it for use in UV and blue emitters. It offers thermal stability and resists chemical...
Photopatterning Demonstrated for Nanocrystal-Based LEDs
Semiconductor nanocrystals have received attention for their potential in LEDs. Researchers have explored a variety of novel approaches for the assembly of the nanomaterials into a device structure....
Flexible Organic LED Has Flexible Uses
Researchers at Princeton University and at Universal Display Corp. in Ewing, both in New Jersey, have constructed an organic LED (OLED) on a flat 9.5 × 9.5-cm sheet of plastic and deformed it into a...
Micromembrane Probe Improves Atomic Force Microscopy
A significant advance in atomic force microscopy (AFM) is at hand, thanks to a new type of probe that enables the acquisition of data on dynamic molecular interactions and the simultaneous collection...
Chaos Affects Atomic Force Microscopes
A pair of researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., have confirmed suspicions that deterministic chaos plays a role in dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, introducing small...
Laser Scanning Microscopy Images Microjets Impinging Electrodes
To enable the creation of better models of electrochemical interactions, Patrick R. Unwin and colleagues at University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, are investigating novel microjet geometries that...
Fluorescence Microscopy Probes Surface-Dependent Catalysis
As the chemical industry develops techniques that use crystal surfaces to catalyze reactions to improve production efficiency, there is an interest in better understanding the process. Many...
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Variable-Focus Liquid Lens Relies on Fluid Pressure
Mobile phones may eventually take better pictures, thanks to a team from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. The group demonstrated a variable-focus lens by using...
Low-Cost Spectrometer Incorporates Spherical Beam Volume Hologram
By exploiting a spherical beam volume hologram, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have devised an inexpensive spectrometer without sacrificing resolution. Ali Adibi, an...
Thin Layers of GaN Deposited on Synthetic Diamond Substrates
Besides being a girl’s best friend, diamonds could be a pretty good pal of ultrabright LEDs and laser diodes — provided a new material from Group4 Labs LLC of Menlo Park, Calif., is used successfully...
Single-Photon Detectors Achieve 57 Percent Efficiency
Researchers at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., at its Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., and at Moscow State Pedagogical University have improved the detection efficiency of superconducting nanowire...
Laser Effect Used to Detect Particles in Suspension
A team at Tokai University in Hiratsuka and Shizuoka, Japan, and from National Kaohsiung Normal University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has demonstrated that the intensity modulation in a laser can be used...
Alkali-Vapor Laser Multiplies Brightness of Diode Array
Since the invention of the laser, one of its chief drawbacks has been low wall-plug efficiency. Nonetheless, early argon-ion and diffraction-limited Nd:YAG lasers, whose efficiencies seldom exceeded...
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CREOL Wins Research Funding
The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida in Orlando is the recipient of US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research...
Flir, Autoliv Collaborate on IR Night Vision
Flir Systems Inc. has granted a license to Autoliv Inc. of Stockholm, Sweden, for its automotive infrared camera design. Under terms of the agreement, the Portland, Ore., company will provide...
Optical Manufacturers Release Standard Specifications
Optical chip manufacturers Avanex Corp. of Fremont, Calif., CyOptics Inc. of Breinigsville, Pa., Opnext Inc. of Eatontown, N.J., and Japan-based Eudyna Devices Inc. of Yokohama, Sumitomo Electric...
Leica Microsystems, Koheras Forge Agreement
Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, and Koheras A/S of Birkerød, Denmark, have signed a nonexclusive license agreement on several of Leica’s patent rights related to the use of...
Avantes Relocates
In Colorado, Avantes Inc. has moved from Boulder to a larger facility in Broomfield. The company supplies products for fiber optic spectroscopy, such as, light sources, spectrometers, fiber optic...
NASA Extends Grant to Boston Micromachines
NASA has extended a Phase I project with Boston Micromachines Corp., granting a Phase II contract for approximately $600,000 for the development of a deformable mirror suitable for high-resolution...
Mesophotonics, Horiba in Market Partnership
Mesophotonics Ltd. of Southampton, UK, has entered into a marketing partnership with Horiba Jobin Yvon of Edison, N.J. Under the agreement, the companies expect to develop and market surface-enhanced...
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Formed in Germany
In Germany, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH has announced that its Microscopy Group was merged to form Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH. Based in Jena, the company will continue to operate under the Zeiss brand and...
SMI Receives Funding for Optical Coatings
The US Air Force/Missile Defense Agency will provide Phase II funding to Structured Materials Industries Inc. of Piscataway, N.J., for continued development of a metallorganic chemical vapor...
Quantum Cryptography Joint Venture Announced
MagiQ Technologies Inc., which is based in New York, has formed a joint venture to commercialize diamond-encrusted single-photon sources for use as components of quantum cryptography systems. Also...
Zeon Expands Production of Optical Films
To meet the demand for ZeonorFilm, a proprietary stretched film that is used in large LCD televisions, Zeon Corp. of Tokyo is expanding its production capacity at its subsidiary Optes Inc.’s plant in...
Intel Supports EUV Source Development
Intel Corp.’s investment business, Intel Capital, has provided funding to Xtreme technologies GmbH to advance its development of extreme-ultraviolet sources for photolithography at its plants in Jena...
Heptagon Expands
Heptagon Oy has doubled its manufacturing space to 440 sq m and has increased the equipment, work force and offices at its facilities in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. The ISO 9001-certified company...
Nanometrics to Buy Accent Optical
Accent Optical Technologies Inc. of Bend, Ore., a supplier of process control and metrology systems for semiconductor manufacturing, is expected to be acquired by Nanometrics Inc. in a transaction...
FiconTec Gets Contract for Automated Systems
Laser diode manufacturer Alfalight Inc. of Madison, Wis., has placed an order for fully automated laser bar soldering and inspection systems produced by ficonTec GmbH of Bremen, Germany. The systems...
CVI and Hyperion Form Alliance
Joining in a strategic alliance, CVI Laser LLC of Albuquerque, N.M., and Hyperion Development of San Ramon, Calif., plan to produce optomechanical assemblies and subassemblies. Hyperion specializes...
Jenoptik Expands Photonics Business
Jenoptik AG of Jena, Germany, has expanded its surface inspection operations as part of its focus on photonics technology. Its subsidiary SIS GmbH in Munich, Germany, which produces surface...
Modulight to Develop High-Power Diode Bars
In Finland, a $1.8 million contract to develop high-power laser diode bars has been awarded to Modulight Inc. of Tampere by the Technology Development Centre, known as Tekes, in Helsinki. The laser...
Umicore Becomes Independent Company
Umicore Laser Optics of Stevenage, UK, has reorganized as an independent company under the name ULO Optics, Ltd. Specializing in the design and fabrication of high-grade CO2 laser optics and beam...
NEC Reabsorbs Semiconductor Sector
The board of directors of NEC Electronics Corp. of Kawasaki, Japan, has voted to merge its wholly owned subsidiary NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices Ltd. into the parent company, effective April 1....
Picarro Gets Grant for Pollutant Monitor
The US Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant to Picarro Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., to produce instrumentation for detecting the toxic chemical...
Air Force Awards Aculight Second Contract
Aculight Corp., a developer of laser technologies, has been awarded a second contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque,...
UK Group to Develop InP-Based Devices
A collaborative project has received £1.7 million from the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry to develop technologies for the uncooled operation of advanced InP-based photonic components. The 2...
Zeiss Grants Prairie Laser Scanning Licenses
The Microscopy Group of Carl Zeiss AG has sublicensed various patents for laser scanning microscopy to Prairie Technologies Inc. of Madison, Wis. The patents protect the use of ultrashort laser...
Wolfram to Distribute iCyt Mission Products
Mathematica manufacturer Wolfram Research Inc. will market Rayica and LensLab software from the Optica Software Div. of iCyt Mission Technology Inc. of Champaign, Ill. Wolfram, also of Champaign,...
PI Moves Office to Irvine, Calif.
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, a manufacturer of piezobased precision motion-control and nanopositioning equipment for semiconductor, photonic and life sciences applications, has relocated its...
Micro Lamps Distributes Acol Products
Micro Lamps Inc. of Batavia, Ill., has agreed to distribute the products of Acol Technologies SA in North America. The Meyrin-Satigny, Switzerland, company supplies high-brightness LED products for...
Polatis Appoints Japanese Agent
Optical switch supplier Polatis Inc. of Billerica, Mass., has formed a distribution agreement with Marubun Corp. The Tokyo-based company will represent a number of Polatis’ products, including the...
Science Applications Wins Contract from NASA
NASA has chosen Science Applications International Corp., based in San Diego, to provide support for Goddard Space Flight Center’s Ocean Color research programs. The company will support the Ocean...
Bookham Acquires Avalon Photonics
Bookham Inc., a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems in San Jose, Calif., has agreed to acquire Avalon Photonics. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, the latter company supplies single-...
Varian Purchases Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Company
In California, Varian Inc. of Palo Alto has acquired IonSpec Corp. of Lake Forest, with the intention of expanding its detection portfolio. The acquisition of the company, including its Fourier...
Osram Opto and Avago Cross-License Patents
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, and Avago Technologies of San Jose, Calif., have entered into a limited patent cross-license agreement. Osram has granted Avago a license for...
Multifaceted Innovation Drives Machine Vision Industry
Hardware that is used to integrate machine vision systems is becoming more compact and sophisticated. Designers are leveraging these improvements to produce easy-to-use vision systems for a variety...
DARPA Offers Grants to Support Research on Mid-IR Lasers
DARPA will make funding available under its Efficient Mid-wave Infrared Lasers program. The technical goals of the project are to demonstrate a mid-infrared laser operating in continuous-wave mode at...
Accent on Applications
Digital Camera Reads Chromatography Plates
Thin-layer chromatography is a standard laboratory method in chemistry used to identify compounds, assess purity and track a reaction’s progress. It involves an adsorbent film on a glass plate or other carrier on which samples of interest are placed. As the components of the sample travel through the film, they separate, enabling analysis. The problem is that scanning densitometry, the...
Maldi-Tof Used to Examine Renaissance Art
Whereas others may look at a work of fine art and see a painting, Cécile Cren-Olivé, a research assistant professor in analytical chemistry at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1...
Thermoreflectance Spots Hot and Cold Sites on Integrated Circuit
When it comes to integrated circuit failure analysis, Caesar Saloma of the National Institute of Physics at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City doesn’t blow hot and cold. He’s counting...
Presstime Bulletin
Optical Lattice Clock Employs Ytterbium-174
An optical lattice atomic clock built by a collaboration of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and from the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Laser Physics in Novosibirsk demonstrates that it should be possible to use even-numbered isotopes of neutral atoms in the instruments, improving their accuracy and...
Elastic Photonic Crystal Captures Fingerprints
Rubbery inverse opal films that change color under pressure promise diverse applications from biometrics and mechanical sensing to children’s toys and tamperproof packaging. Developed by researchers...
Light-Driven Molecule Moves Microscale Objects
Chemists at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, both in the Netherlands, have designed and synthesized a helical molecule that rotates when exposed to ultraviolet...
Lighter Side
Polarized Light Reveals Detail and Beauty of Ice
Using polarized light to reveal the crystallographic structure of a thin cross section of an ice core enables a reconstruction of how the ice formed over the course of a season, with the layers bearing evidence of colder and warmer trends and of precipitation. Beyond its scientific utility, the technique also produces brilliant kaleidoscopic images. The polarized light images of ice samples...
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