Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...butions to the theory of laser guide star adaptive optics and its application in ground-based astronomy to correct telescopic images for the blurring caused by light passing through the atmosphere. Max is professor and astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a physicist at the Institute...National Academies Advisory: Sept. 18-19 Nanotechnology Conference
...ines from cell biology to computer engineering to optics but scientists are often unaware of developments in fields other than their own. At this conference, 100 leading researchers will gather to explore the future of nanoscience in medical imaging, materials science, and other disciplines, and develop a...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
... improvement will require changes in the front-end optics that have become the bottleneck for performance, functionality and the cost of all miniature cameras. With support from DARPA and the U.S. Air Force, Professor Lo's group has fabricated a prototype integrated optical-front-end-on-a-chip, using microf...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
...n the tissue, multiphoton microscopy and nonlinear optics have several advantages for breakthrough applications in biomedical research." One such application combines multiphoton microscopy with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (invented by Webb and by Elliot Elson and Doug Magde decades ago) to measur......Recent advances in atom interferometry and quantum optics may lead to a whole new class of components atom chips. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg describe their experiments with the control and manipulation of ultra-cold rubidium atoms in nanostructured traps and guides. The development is an...Laser technique used to build micro-polymeric structure on a human hair, without harming it
...es, such as optical communications hardware: fiber optics and the hardware that is used to interface them with electronics. "While there are applications of the technique we used in the optical communications area that are being pursued by us and by others, writing a structure on a hair does not have direct...Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
..., high density information storage, improved fiber optics and more precise lithography. ( PHYS 27 , Sunday, March 28, 9:20 a.m., Convention Center, Room 210C, during the symposium, "Nanocrystals and Nanotubes.") "Big Promise from 'Small' Science - How Nanotechnology will Change Our Lives" Nanotechnology...Spying on the inner life of a cell - new nanosensors a body can live with
... other drawbacks. Imaging dyes and proteins, fiber optics sensors, and coated nano-sized beads can disrupt cellular processes. In addition, they sometimes break down chemically or can be toxic. They also can't reveal the kinds of chemical processes occurring or their rates of reaction in real time. And they...Marine sponges provide model for nanoscale materials production
...evices, and in combination with oxygen forms fiber optics and drives other high-tech applications. He explains that his research group discovered that the center of the sponge's fine glass needles contains a filament of protein that controls the synthesis of the needles. By cloning and sequencing the DNA of...New X-ray sources speed protein crystallography
...he past three decades as synchrotron source, X-ray optics and detector technology have steadily advanced. Gruner, who is director of CHESS, explained how novel technologies now being developed will couple with developing semiconductor X-ray detectors to open new avenues of scientific exploration. One such n...Optically recording millisecond brain nerve impulses
...anges in electrical polarity. The quantum physical optics phenomenon, second-harmonic generation (SHG) is the first multiphoton technique capable of detecting action potentials. SHG is particularly useful for imaging these impulses because it picks out only the cell membrane where impulses occur and does no...With nature's help, a better vision system for smart weapons
...has the potential to change the way we think about optics and specifically about optical lenses," he said. "Inspiration from nature has enabled the pursuit of new materials approaches to optical components, which will allow more life-like qualities in the system." Smart weapons aren't the only potential a...Genes that regulate hearing link humans and fruit flies in new way
...Medical School are using the genetics of fruit fly optics to learn more about retinal degeneration and other vision disorders in humans. "We're hoping that our work can turn out to be equally useful for hearing researchers," said Boekhoff-Falk, adding that fly genetics also now serve as a model for Parkin...NSF awards $68 million for new engineering centers
...er manufacturer (Spectra Physics), and an advanced optics manufacturer (CDM Optics). Nine additional firms have expressed interest. Outreach will involve year-round research experiences with undergraduates and faculty from the ERC and the following institutions that serve underrepresented groups: Agnes S...Lasers create new possibilities for biological technology
... of the spectrum, she said. In recent years fiber optics and photonics have revolutionized communications and created a new global society via the Internet....Distinctive advantages give optical sensors the edge over conventional systems
...y to multiplexing, and high sensitivity make fiber optics the sensor technology of choice in several fields,...ver conventional devices. The greater bandwidth of optics enables delivery of more data, which is useful for high-speed data transmission or high-resolution v...Collaboration at EMSL produces innovative mass spectrometer
...nt of the instrument's commercial ion manipulation optics with EMSL's patented ion funnel technology, as well as the design, development and construction of an automated LC system that incorporates a commercial autosampler and PNNL's high-pressure LC technology. Software written by researchers at EMSL is us...DFG to establish nine new collaborative research centres
...l and experimental solid-state physics via quantum optics through to materials sciences and nanotechnology. In addition to the Technical University of Munich, the following are also actively involved in the collaborative research: the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg and th...Bread mold yields a genome first for filamentous fungi
...zymes. They also rot wood, damage fabric, obscure optics and, as pathogens, injure animals and plants. Charting Neurospora's DNA sequence allowed scientists to examinea curious genetic mechanism unique to fungi known as repeat induced point mutation, or RIP. First discovered in Neurospora in the 1980s, th......m of harmless laser light shines through the eye's optics (the transparent cornea, which begins to focus lig...light rays are reflected back through the internal optics and exit the eye, the wavefront analyzer measures and computes deviations from a perfectly formed li...