News tagged with applied optics
Mini beamer in a cellphone or PDA
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking at photos on a cellphone display can be somewhat arduous. A new mini beamer will make it easier. The beamer is so small that it can be integrated in a cellphone or a PDA. As it does ...
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Nanoscale carbon materials research wins the 2008 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2008 |
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Dr. Phaedon Avouris of IBM and Professor Tony Heinz of Columbia University were presented with the 2008 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics on 27 September 2008 during a day-long forum at Harvard University, attended ...
Carbon nanostructures form the future of electronics and optoelectronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2008 |
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This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Phaedon Avouris and Tony Heinz for their pioneering work on the electrical and optical properties of nanoscale carbon materials including carbon nanotubes ...
Transform a ball into a rock -- or make it invisible -- using transformation optics
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction and fantasy tales are full of the ability to "cloak" characters with invisibility. Whether it is a spaceship with a cloaking device, or a young wizard with an invisibility ...
Overcoming the limits of resolution
Jun 12, 2007 |
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This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to the Göttingen-based researcher Stefan Hell for his revolutionary discovery that resolutions far below the diffraction limit can be achieved in a fluorescence ...
Watching me, watching you
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Software that tracks shoppers' eye movements as they browse supermarket shelves may seem a bit Big Brother, but the latest technology in 'eye-tracking', which monitors what grabs a person's ...
Nanophotonic devices could revolutionize the telecommunications industry
Sep 15, 2009 |
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This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Motoichi Ohtsu for his pioneering and seminal work on nanophotonics and near field optics as well as for the development of innovative nanophotonic ...
Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers
Jul 27, 2008 |
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Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller ...
Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...
Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Eyesight Correction Applications
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Arizona have created a fluid-based opthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated ...
Measuring quantum information without destroying it
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the Holy Grails - so to speak - of science involves building quantum computers that can perform, with accuracy, the computations too advanced and too large for classical computers. While we remain ...
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