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Laser Technology News 2008 p13:

• Rice University scientists make breakthrough in single-molecule sensing
  February 12, 2008, Houston, TX--In a study that could lay the foundation for mass-produced single-molecule sensors, physicists and engineers at Rice University have demonstrated a means of simultaneously making optical and electronic measurements of the same molecule.
• Long-lived self-luminous microspheres emit light without charging
  February 8, 2008, Clayton, WI--Glow-paint company MPK Co. has announced a patent-pending microsphere material dubbed Litroenergy that generates its own light without electricity or sun exposure for 12 years.
• HiRISE camera details dynamic wind action on Mars
  February 8, 2008, Tucson, AZ--Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere at less than 1% percent the surface pressure of Earth, so scientists working on The University of Arizona's (U of A's) High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, are challenged to explain the complex, wind-sculpted landforms they're now seeing in unprecedented detail. Ball Aerospace and Technologies of Boulder, CO, built the HiRISE camera operated by the U of A.
• Kodak launches high-resolution CMOS image sensor for consumer applications
  February 6, 2008, Rochester, NY--Eastman Kodak Company is enabling a new level of performance in consumer imaging devices by redesigning the basic building blocks used to collect light.
• Research could lead to artificial retinas
  February 5, 2008, Galveston, TX--The world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the University of Michigan, according to a story in the Galveston County Daily News.
• Musical chords analyze hydrogen molecule's response to laser pulses
  February 4, 2008, Manhattan, KS--Kansas State University physics professor Uwe Thumm and colleagues in Heidelberg, Germany, have shown how a hydrogen molecule responds to laser pulses by using the changing musical chord created by the molecule's vibrational motion.
• Tiny avalanche photodiode detects single ultraviolet photons
  January 30, 2008, Evanston, IL--Researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices have demonstrated visible-blind avalanche photodiodes capable of detecting single photons in the ultraviolet region (360-200 nm).
• JDSU develops world's smallest tunable optical transmitter
  January 29, 2008, Milpitas, CA--JDSU, provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation, semiconductor processing, display, and other applications, has created the world's smallest widely tunable transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) for the dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transceiver market. The new TOSA represents a dramatic reduction in size and cost compared to previous discrete solutions.
• EU project discovers easier way to make 3D integrated circuits
  January 28, 2008, Brussels, Belgium--According to the European Commission's Research Office, the EU-backed project Waferbonding and Active Passive Integration Technology and Implementation (WAPITI) has discovered an easier way to make complex 3D integrated circuits involving both optical and electronic elements, by using a new wafer bonding technique.
• Photonics West Plenary: Building a better MEMS/MOEMS
  January 22, 2008, San Jose, CA--Reliability testing throughout the entire product-development cycle is key to building a better MEMS/MOEMS, according to Michael Douglass of Texas Instruments (TI; Dallas, TX).

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