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Laser Technology News 2008 p12:

• Energetic nanoparticles swing sunlight into electricity
  February 29, 2008--Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have exploited the properties of nanoparticles in noble metals to produce better and cheaper solar cells.
• Venus reveals transient ultraviolet weather
  February 29, 2008, Lindau, Germany--The Venus Express orbital imager has revealed an ultraviolet mystery in the clouds of Venus.
• Philips, XTREME push EUV source to 500W
  February 28, 2008, San Jose, CA--Presenting at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium, Philips Extreme UV and XTREME Technologies offered proof-of-principle experiment results showing their gas-discharge plasma source can be scaled to 100kHz operation frequency.
• IPG acquires major patent portfolio from British Telecom
  February 26, 2008, Oxford, MA--IPG Photonics has purchased more than 100 key U.S. patents, and their more than 340 foreign counterparts, by acquiring a photonics patent portfolio from British Telecom.
• Intel researchers move silicon photonics into the mid-infrared
  February 25, 2008, Santa Clara, CA--The feasibility of extending the wavelength of operation of silicon lasers from the near- to the mid-infrared has been given a boost, in a paper published online this week in Nature Photonics.
• Frequency comb spectroscopy detects disease via breath analysis
  February 20, 2008, Boulder, CO--A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, has shown that by sampling a person's breath with laser light they can detect molecules in the breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer.
• New laser technique identifies pharmaceutical capsule content
  February 19, 2008, Oxfordshire, England--Scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have developed an effective laser-based method for the characterization of the bulk chemical content of pharmaceutical capsules--without opening the capsules.
• University of Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity
  February 18, 2008, Ann Arbor, MI--Researchers from the University of Michigan have demonstrated a Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser that is twice as intense as one they produced in 2004.
• Ultrafast laser used to detect counterfeiting of precious gemstones
  February 14, 2008, Las Cruces, NM--Raydiance Inc., developer of a compact, cost-effective and fully software-controlled ultrashort pulse (USP) laser system, is working with a leading geologist at New Mexico State University (NMSU) who has received funding for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) of rock and mineral compositions, a process by which researchers are able to analyze small parts of a mineral in a way that is essentially non-destructive.
• Spire awarded patent for synthesis of quantum-dot nanostructures
  February 13, 2008, Bedford, MA--Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules, cells, and wafers worldwide, has been awarded US Patent #7,306,963, "Precision Synthesis of Quantum Dot Nanostructures for Fluorescent and Optoelectronic Devices."

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