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Researchers Awarded Julius Springer Prize for Pioneering Achievements in Nanoscale Physics and Applications

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physical scientist Henri Lezec and Federico Capasso of Harvard have received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2010 for their "pioneering achievements in nanoscale physics and applications."

26 Oct 2010

Optical Surface States in Magnetophotonic Crystals

Magnetophotonic crystals are artificial media that provide efficient coupling of light to their magnetic constituents. Light confinement inside magnetophotonic crystals results in a large enhancement of their magneto-opt...

26 Oct 2010

Table-Top Device Capable of Producing Synchrotron X-Rays

If you say 'synchrotron' to most scientists, they will picture an immense, highly expensive and rather rare facility designed to produce highly intense beams of light, such as the UK's Diamond Light Source th...

26 Oct 2010

Ultratech’s Laser Spike Anneal Tools to Support 45-nm Production Ramp

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), today announced that a large foundry in Asia has placed a significant multi-system, follow-on order for its laser spike anneal (LSA) tools.

26 Oct 2010

Micro-Scale System Producing Thin Beam of Spatially Coherent X-Rays

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research. Today, in Nature ...

25 Oct 2010

New 70-nm Narrow Channel Helps to Study Flow of Photogenerated Electrons

At the heart of the method is a so-called quantum point contact (QPC). This is a narrow conductive channel in a semiconductor circuit. The scientists created a 70-nanometer narrow channel, about as wide as the wavelength of electrons in the semiconductor.

22 Oct 2010

Nanofabrication Processes Used for Bonding Lasers on Silicon Substrate

As good as the metal has been in zipping information from one circuit to another on silicon inside computers and other electronic devices, optical signals can carry much more, according to Duke University electrical engi...

22 Oct 2010

Smart Miniaturized System for Continuous Health Monitoring of Composites

European FP7 funded project SmartFiber, a consortium led by imec and including partners Ghent University, Airborne, FBGS Technologies, Xenics, Fraunhofer and Optocap, will develop a smart miniaturized system for continuous health monitoring of composites that integrates optical fiber sensor technology, nanophotonic chip technology and low-power wireless technology.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Recent Experiments Find That Fluid Droplets Behave Like Quantum Particles

In the first decades of the 20th century, physicists hotly debated how to make sense of the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as the tendency of subatomic particles to behave like both particles and waves. One early theory, called pilot-wave theory, proposed that moving particles are borne along on some type of quantum wave, like driftwood on the tide.

20 Oct 2010

Georgia Tech Physicists Develop New Quantum Communication Device

When the military needs to send the key to encrypted data across the world, it can't necessarily rely on today's communication lines, where the message could be covertly intercepted. But physicists at the Geor...

From Georgia Institute of Technology 20 Oct 2010