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Universal Display and Arizona Flexible Display Center Strengthen Their Collaboration

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED™ phosphorescent OLED technology, and the Flexible Display Center (FD...

19 Nov 2009

Lumerical Solutions Donates 10 Simulation Engine Licenses of FDTD Software to Compute/Calcul Canada

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-difference time-domain (FDTD) softwar...

From Ansys 19 Nov 2009

Researchers Create Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots

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 shielded from one another. Now, phy...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 17 Nov 2009

Applied Materials to Spearhead Three-Year Project Named Light InLine

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 Research (BMBF) to develop processes to lower the cost of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting for general illumination applications.

From Applied Materials Inc. 17 Nov 2009

Cornell Researchers Use Very Tiny Beam of Light to Move Silicon Structure up to 12 Nanometers

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 completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent, they reported.

16 Nov 2009

Compact FEL Simultaneously Emitting High-Intensity Short Pulse Beams of Monochromatic IR Light and X-ray

Researchers at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a compact free electron laser (FEL) that can simultaneously emit high-intensity short pulse beams of monochromatic infrared light and X-ray.

16 Nov 2009

NIST Physicists Demonstrate First "Universal" Programmable Quantum Information Processor

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 by quantum mechanics-the rules governing the submicroscopic world-using two quantum bits (qubits) of information.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 15 Nov 2009

Joining Forces to Tackle Quantum Issues

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 strengthen collabor...

13 Nov 2009

Professors Honored for Revolutionary Work

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 Professor Ignacio Cirac from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 12 Nov 2009