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Pioneer's 16-layer optical disc

Pioneer Develops World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 6

Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world.


Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.


Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.


Laser Structure

Sony Develops World's Highest Optical Output 7.2W, 635nm Red Semiconductor Laser Array

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices.


Optoelectronic tweezers push nanowires around

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In efforts that can improve studies of biological objects and the construction of nanotech materials, researchers at the University of California-Berkeley have invented "optoelectronic tweezers," a new way of controlling ...


Study on free-space optical communication shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Three members of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology recently collaborated on a paper focusing on free-space optical communication, which appears in the latest issue of Optics Express.


Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speed

Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speed

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 0

The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor ...


Printed optical electronics come into view

Printed optical electronics come into view

Chemistry /

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.


Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Taking a cue from the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at Stanford University has developed a method of producing unlimited quantities of highly magnetic nanoparticles suitable for use as magnetic resonance ...


The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...


Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF

Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research in imaging may lead to advancements for the Air Force in data encryption and wide-area photography with high resolution.


Strength through diversity

Strength through diversity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...


Researchers build world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 21, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 0

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining lasers and other key optical components with the existing electronic ...


3-D photonic crystals make novel add-drop filters

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the ...


Glass fibers instead of copper cables

Glass fibers instead of copper cables

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 24, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (47) | comments 0

Semiconductor technology is expensive. Novel optical microchips made of plastic are set to bring down the price of fiber-optic technology in future. Personal fiber-optic connections for private individuals ...