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World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser: Chip That Emits And Guides Light Could Drive Silicon Photonics
September 18, 2006 Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Intel Corporation have built the world's first electrically powered Hybrid Silicon Laser using standard silicon manufacturing ... > full story -
Electric Jolt Triggers Release Of Biomolecules, Nanoparticles
September 15, 2006 Researchers have devised a way to use a brief burst of electricity to release biomolecules and nanoparticles from a tiny gold launch pad. The technique could be used to dispense small amounts of ... > full story -
Polymers Show Promise For Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
August 30, 2006 University of Alberta researchers are touting the use of liquid crystalline polymers as a viable tool for use in devices such as the sought-after lab-on-a-chip ... > full story -
Quick Diagnosis Of Flu Strains Possible With New Microchip Test
August 28, 2006 Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the CDC have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the viruses ... > full story -
Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing Tool Updated
August 26, 2006 High-tech laboratory tools, like computers, are often updated publicly as their analytical capabilities expand. In the September issue of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, NIH grantees report ... > full story -
Tiny Ion Pump Sets New Standard In Cooling Hot Computer Chips
August 23, 2006 University of Washington researchers have succeeded in building a cooling device tiny enough to fit on a computer chip that could work reliably and efficiently with the smallest microelectronic ... > full story -
Autonomous Lenses May Bring Microworld Into Focus
August 3, 2006 When Hongrui Jiang looked into a fly's eye, he saw a way to make a tiny lens so "smart" that it can adapt its focal length from minus infinity to plus infinity -- without external control. ... > full story -
Optical Breakthrough Makes 'Lab-on-a-Chip' Possible
August 3, 2006 Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to shrink all the sensing power of sophisticated biosensors -- such as sensors that can detect trace amounts of a chemical in a water supply or a substance ... > full story -
Scientists Build 'Magnetic Semiconductors' One Atom At A Time
July 28, 2006 In a stride that could hasten the development of computer chips that both calculate and store data, a team of Princeton scientists has turned semiconductors into magnets by the precise placement of ... > full story -
Scientists Image 'Magnetic Semiconductors' On The Nanoscale
July 26, 2006 In a first-of-its-kind achievement, scientists at the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University have directly imaged the magnetic interactions ... > full story
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