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| PLASTIC EYE MIMICS OCTOPUS VISION |
| A lens resembling an octopus eye has been created by US researchers. The sphere consists of hundreds of thousands of layers of plastic and could revolutionize cameras, telescopes and spectacles. |
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| NASA APPROVES JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE MIRROR ARCHITECTURE |
| NASA today announced a major milestone in the development of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the selection of a beryllium-based mirror technology for the telescope's 6.5-meter primary mirror. |
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| HOW BLACK IS 'SUPER BLACK'? |
| Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, Middlesex, UK have good news for manufacturers and users across the optical instrumentation industry. Based on existing processes developed in the US and Japan, a team of researchers at NPL has developed a new technique for commercial manufacturing of ultra-black coatings, which represent one of the blackest, lowest reflectance surfaces developed so far. |
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| ALCHEMY WITH LIGHT |
| YOU don't often see claims of "unexpected and stunning new physical phenomena" in the abstract of a reputable scientific paper. But the latest report by photonics crystal pioneer John Joannopoulos and his group at MIT, soon to be published in Physical Review Letters, does not disappoint. The researchers document the ultimate control over light: a way to shift the frequency of light beams to any desired colour, with near 100 per cent efficiency. |
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| RESEARCHERS MOVE STEP CLOSER TO PHOTONIC MICROCHIP |
| Researchers at the University of Toronto have figured out a way to "nudge" nature into making photonic crystals in a specific order and pattern, a critical first step in the development of photonic circuits and microchips. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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