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Manchester’s Nano Beam Position Monitor Receives 2013 R&D 100 Award

An innovative way to measure and image X-ray beams with unrivalled precision, developed at The University of Manchester, has been honoured with a 2013 R&D 100 Award – often dubbed the ‘Oscars of Innovation’.

11 Sep 2013

New Mechanism for Extracting Energy from Light Using Plasmonic Nanostructures

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light, a finding that could improve technologies for generating electricity from solar energy and lead to more efficient optoelectronic devices used in communications.

10 Sep 2013

Engineers Create LEDs from Gadolinium-Doped Semiconductor Nanowires

Commercial uses for ultraviolet (UV) light are growing, and now a new kind of LED under development at The Ohio State University could lead to more portable and low-cost uses of the technology.

10 Sep 2013

Nanotech Security Amends Terms of Patent Entities Acquisition

Nanotech Security Corp. (the “Company”), developer of next-generation security and authentication features using patented nano-optics announces that further to its recent news releases describing its $4.2 million subscription receipts financing (now 100% closed) the terms of the related patent entities acquisition have been modified slightly to facilitate a near term completion.

6 Sep 2013

Butterfly's Interconnected Nano-Scale Coiled Springs Inspire Development of Unique Photonic Crystal Device

By mimicking microscopic structures in the wings of a butterfly, an international research team has developed a device smaller than the width of a human hair that could make optical communication faster and more secure.

2 Sep 2013

Researchers Discover Highly-Sensitive, Super-Bright, Photostable, Background-Free Nanocrystals

Researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in identifying the world's most sensitive nanoparticle and measuring it from a distance using light. These super-bright, photostable and background-free nanocrystals enable a new approach to highly advanced sensing technologies using optical fibres.

2 Sep 2013

Real-Time Manipulation of Nuclear Spin Noise May Enable New Nano-Scale Imaging Techniques

Basel Physicists in collaboration with Dutch researchers have demonstrated a new method for polarizing nuclear spins in extremely small samples. By Monitoring and controlling spin fluctuations, the method may provide a route for enhancing the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the nanometer-scale, allowing researchers to make 3D images of smaller objects than ever before. The results have been published in the journal «Nature Physics».

27 Aug 2013

Zygo Introduces Nexview 3D Imaging and Measurement System with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

Zygo Corporation today announced the Nexview™ profiler, its next-generation 3D imaging and measurement system for rapid, precise, quantitative, and interactive surface metrology. This new system for both the production and scientific research markets is an all-new flagship product from an industry-leading surface metrology systems company.

From Zygo Corporation 27 Aug 2013

Novel Nanostructured Holograms Used to Convert Circularly Polarized Laser Light Into Radially Polarized Beams

Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated that they can change the intensity, phase, and polarization of light rays using a hologram-like design decorated with nanoscale structures.

21 Aug 2013

UC San Diego Professors Receive DOD Grant to Develop Low-Energy Nanoscale Resonant Devices

UC San Diego faculty members have garnered three of 15 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative awards granted by the Department of Defense this year. The MURI program supports research by teams of investigators that encompass several traditional science and engineering disciplines to accelerate research progress.

20 Aug 2013