News tagged with liquid optical
Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse
Jul 29, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (34) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ...
Search results for liquid optical
Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace
Jun 10, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (100) |
13
In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ...
The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals
Jan 15, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (15) |
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 ...
Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
Nov 25, 2009 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientists anticipate their "LithoParticles" will have significant applications in photonics, optical communications and other areas.
Integrated optical trap holds particles for on-chip analysis
Jun 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest ...
Soldered lenses
May 13, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (12) |
1
Lenses in optical devices are kept in place by adhesives. This can cause problems when the microscopes and cameras are employed inside a vacuum, as the adhesives may release gases that contaminate the lenses. ...
Single-crystal semiconductor wire built into an optical fiber
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 12, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (30) |
3
An international science team from Penn State University in the United States and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom has developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside ...
Liquid lens creates tiny flexible laser on a chip
May 11, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (3) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. ...
Chameleon for Optoelectronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2007 |
4.4 / 5 (28) |
0
A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires?
Babies brainier than many imagine
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 06, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
A new study from Northwestern University shows what many mothers already know: their babies are a lot smarter than others may realize.
Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces
Jan 23, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid ...
List of search results for liquid optical
