Optics

Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / February 18, 2011

So many materials stories, so little time: Cornell study: Graphene grains make atomic patchwork quilts Dynamically tunable hemispherical electronic eye camera system with adjustable zoom capability Eyeglasses that use liquid crystals…

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Not yet in home LED heaven – but maybe next year

By / February 16, 2011

Because several ACerS members are directly or indirectly involved with LED research and development, and because I am doing some remodeling at my house, I figured that now would be…

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Video of the week: Z.L. Wang on piezoeletronics and piezophotoeletronics

By / February 15, 2011

[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/zl_wang.flv mode=1 f={image=/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/zl_wang.jpg}] Georgia Tech’s Zhong-Lin Wang was a plenary speaker at the recent 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. There, I was able to catch up…

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Two groups find cheaper, easier route to ‘cloaking’ in visible light

By / February 8, 2011

A pink object under the cloak becomes invisible. Credit: SMART Center. Last week I mentioned that someone has found a new, cheap way to optically “hide” objects (other than the…

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Germany’s Fraunhofer: Diamond–ceramic composites, sepsis test-on-a-card, hot-embossed glass microlenses

By / December 22, 2010

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes have been churning out a fascinating collection of announcements this year that showcase the group’s ability to successfully span the research-demonstration-deployment worlds. Deservedly, a lot of countries…

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A method to defeat damage propagation autonomously in self-healing materials

By / December 10, 2010

a) Digital image correlation showing the recovery strain due to the shape memory effect around the crack location.b) Schematic of complete flow for the combination of active toughening with active…

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Materials stories that may also be of interest

By / October 15, 2010

At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get…

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5 new research sites to be built with $50M in NIST grants

By / October 5, 2010

Architect’s drawing of the planned Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering anMetrology at UCLA. Credit: Stenfors Associates Architects. NIST waded through over 100 proposals over the past few months…

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Serendipity: Nano LEDs accidentally produced during NIST nanowire research

By / September 30, 2010

Graphic illustrates a single row of nanowires (cylinders with red tops) with fin-shapednanowalls extending outward. Credit: NIST. Speaking of ZnO nanowires, chemists at NIST who were perfecting new methods of…

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Intriguing scientists and engineers among 2010 MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellows

By / September 29, 2010

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2010. Included in this list is John Dabiri whose work with fluid dynamics we’ve featured several…

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