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Light Exposure Impacts Performance of Inorganic Semi Material NAGOYA, Japan, May 24, 2018 — While essential for electronics, inorganic semiconductors are brittle — a quality that can limit their use, especially for flexible electronics. Researchers at Nagoya University have found that inorganic semiconductors become brittle when exposed to light but remain flexible when kept in the dark at room temperature. Inorganic semiconducting crystals generally tend to fail in a brittle manner. This is true for zinc sulfide (ZnS); ZnS crystals (A) show catastrophic fracture after
New Technology for Structuring Quartz Glass Like a Polymer KARLSRUHE, Germany, May 22, 2018 — A new technology could make it possible to produce and use high-quality glass materials in place of polymers. The innovation, known as Glassomer, could be used in optical, photonic, medical, and industrial applications. Glassomer is a solid...
Brookhaven’s Zhu Awarded MSA Award for Physical Sciences UPTON, N.Y., May 22, 2018 — The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) has selected Yimei Zhu, a senior physicist and leader of the Electron Microscopy and Nanostructure Group in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at the U.S. Department of Energy's...
Pear Joins MicroCare Marketing Team NEW BRITAIN, Conn., May 22, 2018 — Industrial cleaning liquid developer MicroCare Corp. has appointed Sheri Pear as the company’s first marketing communications specialist. Pear will work with manufacturing, R&D, advertising, product management, and sales executives to...
New TFT Fabrication Method Could Help Improve Display Technology BINGHAMTON, N.Y., May 21, 2018 — An alternative to the traditional processes used to produce thin-film transistors (TFTs) could lead to improvements in LCD and OLED displays for TVs, smartphones, computers and tablets. Researchers grew a crystalline silicon thin film on buffered...
Multidisciplinary Initiative Investigates Light as an Energy Source SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 21, 2018 — An interdisciplinary group of scientists is embarking on a five-year project to explore the use of photoswitches to develop a next generation of devices that operate mechanically upon exposure to light. The goal of the $7.5M project, called the...
Universal Laser Adds DuPont, Rogers Materials to Database SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 18, 2018 — Laser material developer Universal Laser Systems Inc. has added DuPont and Rogers Corp. materials to its materials database, an extensive repository of laser material processing parameters for materials in the range of 10 to 500 W. The DuPont and...
Researchers Demonstrate Active Nanoantennas Based on Diamond Nanoparticles SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia, May 16, 2018 — A controlled light source has been developed that is based on a nanodiamond. According to researchers, experiments showed that the diamond shell could double the emission speed of light sources and could help control light sources without additional...
RPI’s Ramanath Named MRS Fellow TROY, N.Y., May 16, 2018 — Ganpati Ramanath, the John Tod Horton '52 Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for his nanomaterials research. MRS fellows are...
Engineered Glass Slide Enables Microscopic Thermal Mapping BUFFALO, N.Y., May 15, 2018 — Using a coating of an optical exceptional point structure, researchers demonstrated a multifunctional microscope slide that supports real-time monitoring and mapping of temperature distribution and heat transport, in addition to conventional...
LEW Techniques Wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise TAUNTON, England, May 14, 2018 — Bespoke component manufacturer LEW Techniques Ltd. has received its second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the U.K.’s highest accolade for business success. Exports now represent close to 90 percent of the company’s turnover, and the 2018 Queen’s...
Neutron Technology Enterprise to Represent Desert Silicon TEMPE, Ariz., May 9, 2018 — Desert Silicon Inc., a supplier of spin-on glass (SOG) and other materials, has appointed Neutron Technology Enterprise of Singapore to represent its SOG products in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. “We are very pleased to announce...
Sensing Chip Uses Raman Spectroscopy to Detect Cocaine in Minutes BUFFALO, N.Y., May 7, 2018 — A chemical sensing chip, developed for use with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), has demonstrated the ability to detect the chemical fingerprint of cocaine in biological samples. In the future, the technology could be used to detect the...
UA's Becker Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows AKRON, Ohio, May 7, 2018 — Matthew Becker, who holds the W. Gerald Austen Endowed Chair of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron (UA), was inducted into the College of Fellows by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering...
Chiral Nanostructures Could Be Used to Tailor Applications BATH, England, May 3, 2018 — Scientists have modeled the interaction between light and twisted molecules as the molecules transition from left- to right-handed versions, or vice versa. Understanding the behaviors of these transitional forms could lead to improved design of...
Hanson Appointed Optomec VP of Biz Development ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 1, 2018 — Additive manufacturing systems developer Optomec has appointed Jamie Hanson as vice president of business development. “Jamie has a truly unique background as a commercial executive in both the machine tool and semiconductor equipment...
NACL Appoints Gatmaitan as Engineering and Technology Director MENTOR, Ohio, April 30, 2018 — North American Coating Laboratories (NACL) has appointed Gener Gatmaitan as director of engineering and technology. Within this role, Gatmaitan will lead NACL’s design of thin-film coatings, help to optimize existing and newly acquired...
Bühler Leybold Appoints Runkel as Head of Optics ALZENAU, Germany, April 30, 2018 — Vacuum depositing systems developer Bühler Leybold Optics has appointed Steffen Runkel as director and head of its optics business unit. Runkel succeeds Klaus Herbig, who was appointed head of product management. Runkel joined the...
New Platform Brings Photonics to Bulk Silicon Microelectronic Chips BROOKLINE, Mass., April 26, 2018 — A microchip technology that is capable of optically transferring data could alleviate bottlenecks in current devices by speeding data transfer and reducing energy consumption by orders of magnitude. The new method that has been developed for...
Fractal Antenna Awarded Flat Lens Patent BEDFORD, Mass., April 26, 2018 — Antenna and embedded component developer Fractal Antenna Systems Inc. has been awarded a U.S. patent for a flat lens with fractal metamaterials to bend electromagnetic waves. The flat lens technology uses fractals, intricate patterns built up as...
Researchers Confine Light to Space of One Atom in Nanophotonics Advance BARCELONA, Spain, April 25, 2018 — Using graphene, researchers have found a way to confine light down to a space that is one atom thick. The ability to confine light to such a small space could pave the way for ultrasmall optoelectronic devices. Previous work has shown that while...
UV Light Exposure Causes Composite Material to Grow Stronger On Demand ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., April 24, 2018 — A technique has been developed that causes a composite material to become stiffer and stronger when exposed to UV light. The technique can be controlled, allowing the strength of the material to be adapted to the requirements of the application. ...
Short, Strong Laser Pulses Advance Understanding of Strongly Correlated Materials BERLIN, Germany, April 20, 2018 — In its search for materials and technologies that could help push the speed and storage limits of silicon-based computer technology, a team of researchers looked at a category of materials known as “strongly correlated systems,” so called because of...
Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cell Absorption and Photocurrent GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 18, 2018 — Researchers have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables the cells to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated devices. The coating, developed by trapping light using an optical version of a whispering gallery, could...
New Bose-Einstein Condensate Couples Light with Metal Electrons ESPOO, Finland, April 18, 2018 — Researchers created a new Bose-Einstein condensate, where the condensed particles were mixtures of light and metal electrons (so-called surface plasmon polaritons), in motion in gold nanorods arranged into a periodic array. Unlike most previous...
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