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Latest Breakthroughs in DFEB Mask Technology to be Featured at Photomask Japan 2010

The eBeam Initiative, a forum dedicated to the education and promotion of a new design-to-manufacturing approach known as design for e-beam (DFEB), today announced that several of its members will jointly present the lat...

16 Apr 2010

New Method to Generate Tunable Wavelengths Using Quantum-Dot Lasers

Researchers at the Technische Universität Darmstadt have found a new method for generating tunable wavelengths, as well as more easily switching back and forth between two wavelengths, employing quantum-dot lasers. Prospective application fields are biomedicine and nanosurgery.

16 Apr 2010

Quantum to Classical Transition in a Single Ion Laser

An EU-funded research team from Austria's University of Innsbruck has invented a single atom laser which works on the same principle as a classic laser but also has quantum mechanical properties in its atom-photon interactions.

15 Apr 2010

Researchers Develop New Miniature Camera Technology for Military Surveillance Applications

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an iris scan.

15 Apr 2010

Researchers Devise New Kind of Random Number Generator

Researchers have devised a new kind of random number generator, for encrypted communications and other uses, that is cryptographically secure, inherently private and - most importantly - certified random by laws of physics.

14 Apr 2010

Physicists Discover Effect that Turns Physics of Semiconductor Lasers "Upside Down"

14 Apr 2010

NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed* the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber optic cables with roughly 99 percent efficiency.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 13 Apr 2010