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3D Metamaterials that Could Really be Applied in Spectroscopic Measurement Instruments

Recently, metamaterials, by means of which electromagnetic waves, including light, can be manipulated, have fired the researchers’ imagination. These artificial structures possess properties that cannot be found in nature.

3 Sep 2009

Scientists Test New Principle of Cooling

In their experiment the Bonn University scientists tested a completely new principle of cooling. For this, they used the property that atoms can be stimulated by light. In this process an electron changes from its orbit ...

2 Sep 2009

Companies Discuss Latest Technology Trends at Organic Semiconductor Conference

Over the past 12 months there has been progress towards the commercialisation of OLED lighting technology. All the major lighting companies such as Philips Lighting, Osram, GE, Panasonic and Thorn Lighting are actively d...

1 Sep 2009

Controlling Single Electrons in a Bunch using Laser Pulses

Predatory fish are well aware of the problem: In a swarm of small fish it is hard to isolate prey. A similar situation can be found in the microcosm of atoms and molecules, whose behavior is influenced by "swarms&qu...

1 Sep 2009

NSF Announces Eight Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials Awarded as Result of Competition

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces eight Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREMs) awarded as a result of the 2009 PREM competition. The objective of the PREM program is to broaden part...

1 Sep 2009

World-Leading Research Programme on Fundamental Science of Nanoplasmonic Devices

Computers which use light to process large amounts of data faster than ever before are just one of many groundbreaking potential applications of a new £6 million research programme at Queen's University Belfast and Imperial College London, launched today, 1 September 2009.

1 Sep 2009

Scientists Achieve High Precision Optical Broadband Spectroscopy by Applying Frequency Comb Technique to Tunable Diode Lasers

The research field of optical spectroscopy has already attracted attention of generations of scientists, starting with Fraunhofer's discovery of dark lines in the sun spectrum in 1814 followed by the work of Kirchhoff and Bunsen in 1859 explaining these lines as absorption of light in atoms and molecules.

1 Sep 2009