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Technology Research News
December 31, 2003 |
Colors expand neural net Researchers from the University of Tokyo have worked out a way to form an especially fast optical neural network by tapping the wave nature of lightwaves rather than just the amplitude, or strength of a signal.   |
Technology Research News
June 4, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003 |
Tiny T splits light Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have designed a compact photonic crystal multiplexer that splits a lightwave into two slightly different colors. |
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Crystal slows and speeds light Playing tricks with light -- speeding, slowing and storing it -- is becoming a popular pastime among physicists. The effects could eventually be used to improve communications and data storage and help bring about quantum computing and quantum communications. |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005 |
Spray-on Photocells Harvest Infrared Researchers from the University of Toronto have found a way to cheaply and easily harvest the infrared portion of the sun's spectrum of lightwaves with a paint-like material that can be sprayed on large surfaces. |
Technology Research News
August 27, 2003 |
Crystal shortens infrared waves Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have found a way to make a tungsten photonic crystal emit 1.5 micron lightwaves, which are in the near-infrared, or heat range. This makes it useful for thermal photovoltaic devices, which turn heat into electricity. |
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. |
Technology Research News
November 17, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light. |
