News tagged with optical trap
First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium
Nov 09, 2009 |
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In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly ...
Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions.
Research looks at how light and matter behave around black holes, other celestial objects
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured in the most recent issue of Nature Ph ...
Integrated optical trap holds particles for on-chip analysis
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells
Biology /
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly -- and then to pull hard. A Cornell research team's experiments involve the "unzipping" ...
