Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

RSS

IMEC Increases Performance of High-K Metal Gate Planar CMOS and FinFETs

At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates targeting the 32nm...

From IMEC 12 Dec 2007

Microscopic Simulation of Explosives and the Molecular Process of Detonation

U.S. troops blew up enemy bridges with explosives in World War II to slow the advance of supplies or enemy forces. In modern times, patrollers use explosives at ski resorts to purposely create avalanches so the runs are ...

12 Dec 2007

Silicon Nanophotonics Milestones Reported by IBM

Several extraordinary recent achievements place the field of microresonators at the frontier of modern photonics. In the Dec. 10 issue of Optics Express, papers explore advanced silicon modulators in the nanoscale, &quot...

12 Dec 2007

Scientists Discover Reason for Photonic Crystal Fibre Spectrum Broadening Supercontinuum Behaviour

Photonic crystal fibre’s ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article in the leading science journa...

11 Dec 2007

Using Light to Sort Individual Cells

Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light. The system, which can s...

11 Dec 2007

Optical Nanotechnology Research Inspires Fractal Patterns on Exterior of University of Southampton's New Mountbatten Building

The fractal patterns seen on the University of Southampton's new Mountbatten Building were inspired by research on optical nanotechnology research in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Optoe...

11 Dec 2007

Ultra Bright Single Photon Source Article Makes Cover of Nature Photonics

Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (...

7 Dec 2007

Supercomputers on a Single Computer Chip on the way After IBM Researchers Use Light not Electricity in New Style Chips

Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced toda...

7 Dec 2007

Laser can Switch a Film Back and Forth between Reflective and Transparent without Changing Temperature

It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it. ...

7 Dec 2007

High Performance Fiber Coupled Laser Diode for Applications Like Lidar, Test, Measurement, Medical, Material Processing and Telecommunications

AMS Technologies introduces Princeton Lightwave’s high performance fiber coupled laser diode with an exceptional high power of 400mW @ 1550nm. The laser diode features an ideal light source for EDFA applications...

5 Dec 2007