Negative-index materials made easy
Single crystal demonstrates negative refraction
Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses
Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
Bose-Einstein condensates break temperature record
Physicists have cooled a gas of sodium atoms down to less than a nanokelvin
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Squeezed light breaks quantum barrier
Physicists have made an ultra-precise laser pointer with squeezed beams of light
Fast and slow light made easy
Superluminal light has been now been observed in a crystal at room temperature
Micromachines made easy
Scientists have demonstrated a new microfabrication technique by making a micro pinball table
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Renaissance pottery comes under the microscope
Italian physicists have found similarities between 500-year-old ceramics and modern metal-glass composites
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Transistors go transparent
Japanese researchers have made the fastest transparent transistor ever
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First light for pure silicon
German and Australian researchers have shown that bulk silicon crystalline can be an efficient light emitter
Carbon nanotubes light up
IBM researchers have created an ultrasmall solid-state light source
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