Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS),collaborating with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,have now demonstrated a drastically new way of achieving negative refraction in a metamaterial.For 20 ...
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin,in collaboration with colleagues at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University and National Chiao-Tung University and at the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute ...
German start-up focuses on'kilowatt'direct diodes 18 Jul 2012 Direct Photonics aims to use Fraunhofer know-how to boost output,challenge fiber and disk lasers. Direct Photonics'DirectPump 900 is a wavelength-stabilized laser ...
LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, announced three key appointments to support the company’s continuing rapid growth. The company has named Geoff Brown as VP of Sales; Jack S. Yeh as Vice President of Sales, ...
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University of Utah physicists invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, ...
University of Utah physicists invented a new"spintronic"organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter,cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer ...
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192-laser shot at National Ignition Facility hits 2mm target with 1.8MJ,500TW–a new high NIF target Scientists at the National Ignition Facility(NIF),home to the world's highest-energy laser system,say that they are ...
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Plasma-Therm workshop supports Scandinavia semiconductor and material science technology sectors Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg,FL,USA says that its recent plasma processing workshop at Sweden's Lund ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that on 21 June Challentech International Corp, its partner for sales ...
US-Italian"Hark!"group develop novel practical photon source with positive implications for high speed optical communications. Two of a kind:Photon pair generation,in which input pump photons spontaneously create pairs of ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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IDG News Service-CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson,the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics. The scientists ...
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Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
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22 June 2012 New Focus launches first tunable,direct-diode blue laser operating at 461nm Photonics product maker New Focus(a division of Newport Corp of Irvine,CA,USA)has launched the Vortex Plus Blue TLB-6802 precision ...
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Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second by 2020. But why do we need computers as fast as powerful as this? ...
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