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Physicists Localize 3-D Matter Waves for First Time
University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials. Understanding these effects is important for many electronics applications. Led by...
Lasers Could be Used to Detect Roadside Bombs
A research team at Michigan State University has developed a laser that could detect roadside bombs – the deadliest enemy weapon encountered in Iraq and Afghanistan. The laser, which has comparable output to a simple presentation pointer, potentially...
Physicists Explore the Key Energy Transport Process Underlying Solar Energy Harvesting
Two Lehigh physicists have developed an imaging technique that makes it possible to directly observe light-emitting excitons as they diffuse in a new material that is being explored for its extraordinary electronic properties. Called rubrene, it is one...
New Photonic Crystals have Both Electronic And Optical Properties
In an advance that could open new avenues for solar cells, lasers, metamaterials and more, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated the first optoelectronically active 3-D photonic crystal. “We’ve discovered a way to change...
Single GFP-expressing Cell is Basis of Living Laser Device
It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed. In a report that will appear...
Federal Aviation Administration to Impose Civil Penalties for Pointing Lasers Into Cockpits
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt has announced that the FAA will begin to impose civil penalties against people who point a laser into the cockpit of an aircraft. How People Arrived...
Berkeley Lab Researchers Aim for the Future with First True Nanoscale Waveguide
The creation of a new quasiparticle called the “hybrid plasmon polariton” may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley...
NASA Awards Contract For Icesat-2 Laser Systems
NASA has selected Fibertek of Herndon, Va., to design, develop, fabricate, test and deliver laser systems to be used for the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission scheduled to launch in 2016. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center...
