Editor’s Picks

81. Trickling Electrons 11/7/2016

    What would happen if an electric current no longer flowed, but trickled instead? This was the question investigated by researchers working with Christian Ast at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

82. Snake Creek Lasers Announces New MicroGreen Laser With Automatic Power Control 9/11/2008
    Snake Creek Lasers, LLC, has recently announced a new version of its MicroGreen Series with integrated photo detector. When engaged in a feedback loop, this laser can be set to maintain constant output power up to 8 mW TEM00 allowing designers to offer illumination solutions that operate over more than 30° C of change in ambient temperature.
83. NTT Advanced Technology Corporation Receives 2010 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award 4/29/2010
    The CLEO/QELS: 2010 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA) and Laser Focus World recently announced NTT Advanced Technology Corporation as the winner of this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.
84. PerkinElmer Signs Patent License Agreement With OSRAM For White LED Components 2/18/2008
    PerkinElmer Optoelectronics, a global technology leader in digital imaging, specialty lighting and optical detection technologies, recently announced that it has entered into a license agreement with OSRAM GmbH that enables PerkinElmer to access OSRAM white light emitting diode (LED) patents for the manufacture of LED components.
85. Future Computer: Atoms Packed In An 'Egg Carton' Of Light? 5/4/2005
    Worldwide, scientists are racing to develop computers that exploit the quantum mechanical properties of atoms, explained Greg Lafyatis, associate professor of physics at Ohio State . These so-called quantum computers could enable much faster computing than is possible today
86. Chemistry In A Trillionth Of A Second 1/29/2015

    Many important chemical processes occur in liquids, including the biochemistry of living organisms, the environmental chemistry in rivers, lakes and oceans, and the synthesis of drug molecules by the pharmaceutical industry.

87. Nanoshells Could Deliver More Chemo With Fewer Side Effects 11/8/2017

    Researchers investigating ways to deliver high doses of cancer-killing drugs inside tumors have shown they can use a laser and light-activated gold nanoparticles to remotely trigger the release of approved cancer drugs inside cancer cells in laboratory cultures.

88. NREL Research Pinpoints Promise Of Polycrystalline Perovskites 2/3/2017

    A team of scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) determined that surface recombination limits the performance of polycrystalline perovskite solar cells.

89. Automotive Precision Assembly: Hexapod 6-Axis Parallel Machines Add High Precision To Conventional Robots 8/23/2017

    The need for advances robotics with high precision and alignment requirements continues to grow in the automotive industry. This white paper describes the major benefits that hexapod 6-axis parallel machines have for conventional robots in automotive precision assembly lines. 

90. 'Smart' Surveillance System May Tag Suspicious Or Lost People 12/22/2008
    Engineers here are developing a computerized surveillance system that, when completed, will attempt to recognize whether a person on the street is acting suspiciously or appears to be lost.