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Laser Technology News 2005 p6:

• Panasonic develops VCSEL with 12.5-Gbit/s data-transmission rate
  May 31, 2005, Osaka, Japan--Panasonic has developed an 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) capable of high-speed 12.5-Gbit/s modulation at a low operating current of 8 mA. This laser will be used for low-cost optical communications approaches such as plastic fiber communication and spatial light transmission. The laser is based on an aluminum gallium arsenide/gallium arsenide structure.
• Quantum dots may boost solar-cell efficiency
  May 24, 2005, Golden, CO--Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have shown that the use of quantum dots may greatly increase the amount of electricity produced by solar cells.
• Wrist-band display on the way
  May 17, 2005, Ewing, NJ--Universal Display Corporation has been awarded a two-year, $1.7 million SBIR (small business innovation research) Phase III contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue its development of flexible OLED-display technology for a next-generation military communications device.
• UNC scientists develop new X-ray device using carbon nanotubes
  May 13, 2005, Chapel Hill, NC--Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a UNC start-up company, Xintek, have invented a new X-ray device based on carbon nanotubes that emits a scanning X-ray beam composed of multiple smaller beams while also remaining stationary.
• Cornell professor wins NSF award for photonics research
  May 2, 2005, Ithaca, NY--Michal Lipson, Cornell University assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is among this year's recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Awards. Lipson will receive a five-year grant of $450,000 to support her research in photonics. The result, she says, will be low-power, high-bandwidth, high-speed and ultra-small optoelectronic components.
• Optical sensor researchers receive nanotechnology grant
  April 27, 2005, Santa Cruz, CA--The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative has awarded a $50,000 grant for nanotechnology research to Holger Schmidt, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Schmidt will work with Xing Su, a collaborator based in Santa Clara, to develop a sensor technology that would enable the optical detection of specific molecules with single-molecule sensitivity using a compact chip-based device.
• Berkeley superlens opens door to nanoscale optical imaging
  April 22, 2005, Berkeley, CA--A group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is giving new relevance to the term "sharper image" by creating a superlens that can overcome a limitation in physics that has historically constrained the resolution of optical images.
• Highly doped nanoparticle fibers have reduced photodarkening
  April 19, 2005, Lohja, Finland--Liekki, which produces nanoparticle optical fibers, has announced the availability of highly doped ytterbium fibers with greatly reduced photodarkening.
• Nanoshells detect and destroy cancer cells with NIR light
  April 18, 2005, Houston, TX--Researchers at Rice University have developed a new approach to fighting cancer, combining nanoscale particles and near-infrared imaging to detect and destroy cancerous cells. Their report appears in the April 13 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters.
• SPE technology from Rensselaer boosts LED light output
  April 15, 2005, Troy, NY--Scientists at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method known as scattered photon extraction or "SPE" to get significantly more light from white light emitting diodes (LEDs) without requiring more energy.

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