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Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner |
Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc. |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 |
Juiced liquid jolts metal into shapes One strategy for constructing microscopic devices is finding ways to make materials assemble themselves. Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the Russian Academy of Sciences have found a way to use electricity to drive metal microparticles into patterns. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage |
The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology |
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Laser tracks electrons in molecules The breakthrough suggests that attosecond lasers will soon enable scientists to address problems in chemistry and biology, which until now were too complex for attosecond science. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball |
X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules. |
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc. |
Industrial Physicist Apr/May 2003 Eric Lerner |
Briefs Twenty watts of terahertz... Chaos in the engine... 3-D lithography... etc. |
Chemistry World October 12, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Lasers on the Energy Ski Slope Researchers have shown that intense laser-light pulses can act as catalysts, controlling the end products of a chemical reaction without themselves being absorbed. |
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes |
Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser. |
Chemistry World January 2, 2014 Ian Randall |
Picosecond 'kettle' to probe chemical reactions A way to boil water in less than a trillionth of a second has been devised by researchers. The approach, which is still theoretical, uses a concentrated pulse of terahertz radiation to raise the temperature of a small sample of water by around 600 C. |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees... |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al. |
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives |
Chemistry World November 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Microscopy Enters the Fourth Dimension Researchers have taken electron microscopy into the fourth dimension, by recording atoms darting around on a surface in real time. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Ultra-bright x-rays film molecular reaction A team working at the Stanford Linear Collider in California claims to have made 'the first molecular movie' using ultra-fast x-ray scattering from molecules as they undergo a chemical reaction. |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley |
X-shape pulses hold together A team of researchers in Italy and Lithuanian has found that under certain conditions a pulse of light can form an X shape that does not spread out. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Andy Extance |
Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures French, Korean and Danish researchers say that they have seen iodine molecules form in the most detail yet. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Neil Savage |
Slower Light for Faster Telecom Networks Promising research could yield better optical data storage. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Photo-catalysts shine light on chemical bond making A team of scientists from Israel and Germany have manipulated bond formation in a chemical reaction using high power lasers |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans |
Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications. |
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Light frozen in place Researchers at Harvard University have trapped and held a light pulse still for a few hundredths of a millisecond. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Simon Perks |
Ultrafast transistors created in a vacuum Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, US, have come up with a new type of transistor that uses a vacuum to conduct electrons a hundred times faster than the conventional solid-state version. |
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 |
Trapped Light Pulses Interact Researchers at Harvard University have showed that light pulses can be trapped and held in a rubidium vapor and made to interact with one another. The method could eventually be used in quantum cryptographic and quantum computing schemes. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2012 Steve Down |
Single particles take flight An international team of researchers has developed a way to study the shape and structure of individual aerosol particles in their native environment. This should help climate modellers and toxicologists to get a better handle on why aerosols behave in the way they do. |
Chemistry World June 21, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
'Atomic traffic jam' sheds light on phase changes The prospect of a new generation of electronic computer memory devices based on metallic alloys that can switch between crystalline and amorphous phases has moved a step closer with two new pieces of research. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Andy Extance |
X-ray laser snaps first bond-forming transition state Using data from x-ray lasers scientists have reconstructed the formation of the carbon monoxide oxidation transition state. |
Wired January 18, 2008 Paul O'Donnell |
Laser-Firing Physicists Take High-Speed Photography to the Attosecond Range Lasers let physicists take pictures at faster speeds. |
Chemistry World May 23, 2013 Laura Howes |
Filming phonons The latest work at University College London, UK. involved hitting the nanocrystals a laser pulse of infra red light to set the nanocrystal vibrating, before taking snapshots of the vibrations with femtosecond X-ray pulses. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Laser Light Cast on Quantum Evolution Researchers have demonstrated for the first time why a technique called coherent control is able to break molecular bonds selectively using finely-tuned pulses of laser light. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level. |