http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-news.asp?catid=20 The Latest Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News and Research en Copyright 2001-2009, AZoM.com Pty Ltd Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14773 Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, and the Fl... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14769 A Canadian software company and a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, Lumerical Solutions Inc., is donating 10 simulation engine licenses of its finite-differenc... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14761 To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement-the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielde... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14713 Applied Materials, Inc., Merck KGaA and the Braunschweig University of Technology (TU-BS) today announced that they have been awarded a grant by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14706 With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to complet... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14686 Kawakatsu Yamada and, Norihiro Sei and Hiroshi Ogawa of the Quantum Radiation Research Group, the Research Institute of Instrumentation Frontier of the National Institute of Advanced Industria... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14673 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed b... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14668 UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics has strengthened its bonds with Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). UQ Physics has recently signed an agreement with the PI to s... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14656 The Carl Zeiss Research Award has been presented every two years since 1990. This year's prize goes to renowned scientists Professor Rainer Blatt from the University of Innsbruck and Profe... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14651 Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of. The researchers in the University's new Institute for P... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14646 Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the K... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14645 Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a 4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust, it is announced today. Metamaterials can be used for invisibilit... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14636 Looking sharp and looking for light - Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsort... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14630 Choosing the right light source for a specific application requires a detailed knowledge about the application and specifications regarding sample illumination and modern light source technolo... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14614 Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14598 One of the most basic problems in maths is solving very large linear equations. There's nothing mysterious about them, they simply take time and the more variables there are, the longer it tak... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14584 JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced that it has licensed patent rights for fundamental picosecond laser technology to Hamamatsu Corporation for the development of microelectronic ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14564 Elliot Scientific is now taking advanced orders for a compact CW DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State) laser that outputs in the UV at a wavelength of 266 nm. The VERVE, as the laser has been named, ... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14559 Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a laser optical tweezers micro-operation instrument for University of Toronto, Canada... http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=14537