Optical tweezers and high density optical storage are just two of the applications that could benefit from compact photonic crystal lasers capable of producing diverse beam patterns on demand.

(Nanowerk News) A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a ...

Lace, a startup backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million to build chipmaking equipment based on helium atom beam lithography, a technique that could etch circuit designs 10 times smaller than ...

A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale -- ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --University of Rochester researchers have developed a novel beam pattern that promises to lend unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images. The beam's mathematical pattern ...

Beams of light polarized into spirals have been used by scientists in the UK to create intricate patterns on the surface of metals. This is the first time that these “logarithmic spirals” have been ...

Whorls of FLASH: (a) Optimized scan patterns; (b) comparison of standard (non-optimized) line-by-line and scan-pattern optimized (SPO) patterns. The resulting pencil-beam scanning dose rate (PBS-DR) ...

A new beam pattern could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale -- even etch new properties onto their surfaces. A ...

A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images, burn precise holes in manufactured materials at a nano scale -- ...