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Researchers Use Lasers to Create First Practical Macroscopic Yarns from Boron Nitride Fibers

Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor, according to a just-published study.

2 Dec 2009

Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Quantum Cascade Laser Output Power

Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature. The results are particularly attractive for infrar...

1 Dec 2009

Physicists Reveal New Insight and Facets of the Effect of Non-Resonant Coupling

Future applications of quantum information technology, e.g., ultimately secure data transfer protocols, will be based on data encryption by sequences of single photons, i.e., the smallest and therefore indivisible quanta of light. As possible candidates for such special kinds of light sources, so-called quantum emitters inside a micro-resonator can be used.

30 Nov 2009

Adaptable Technology Opens Door to Wide Range of Applications in Chemical Detection

An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum (infrared). By contrast, typical lasers emit a single light beam of a well-defined wavelength.

30 Nov 2009

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Signs European XFEL Agreement

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Anatoly Chubais to sign the European XFEL GmbH shareholder agreement in Hamburg on the 30th November, 2009. Also a convention on the construction and operation of the European ...

27 Nov 2009

Patterned Surfaces Mimicking Nano-Scale Structure of Butterfly Wings Can Produce Impressive Optical Effects

Now, such natural wonders have inspired Hong Yee Low and colleagues at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering of A*STAR, Singapore*, to make polymer structures similar to butterfly wings. Their structures produce optical effects that could prove useful in various electronic devices.

24 Nov 2009