Technology > Optics/Photonics

October 2006

• Manipulating Light With a Tiny Needle

September 2006

• Optical Breakthrough Makes “Lab-on-a-Chip” Possible
  
• Helium Atoms Sent by Nozzle May Light Way for New Imaging Approach
  
• Harvard University Engineers Demonstrate Laser Nanoantenna

August 2006

• Novel Nano-Etched Cavity Makes LEDs Seven-Times Brighter

• Connect the Quantum Dots

July 2006

• Researchers Create a Broadband Light Amplifier on a Chip

June 2006

• Sticky Surfaces Turn Slippery With the Flip of a Molecular Light Switch
  
• Researchers Create a Biologically Inspired Artificial Compound Eye
  
• Growing Glowing Nanowires to Light Up the Nanoworld

February 2006

• Engineers Develop Smallest Device to Control Light, Advance Silicon Technology
  
• Physicists Capture Small Numbers of Atoms in Laser Traps

January 2006

• Why Nanolayers Buckle When Microbeams Bend
  
• Physicists Capture Small Numbers of Atoms in Laser Traps

December 2005

• New Study Suggests Ways to Brighten Nanotube Light Sources
  
• The Impossible Is Possible: Laser Light from Silicon
  
• Synthesizing Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films
  
• Quantum Dots That Produce White Light Could be the Light Bulb’s Successor

October 2005

• Solar Breakthrough Could Help Spur Viability of Alternative Energy

September 2005

• "Bowtie Nanoantennas" Could Shed Light on Molecules, Other Nano-Sized Objects