New superlens opens door to nanoscale optical imaging and high-density optoelectronic devices

UC Berkeley Press Release ^ | April 21, 2005 | Sarah Yang

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Facinating. Enjoy

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Nanotech Ping.

[bd476]

This is great, PeaceBeWithYou. It's exciting thinking about how this technology could impact future medical research applications.

[Nathan Zachary]

Good. Hopefully it can be used to futher the study of prions (protiens) whose 'folds" just can't be seen at the moment.
As far as making things smaller, I can hardly see my cell phone as it is!

[endthematrix]

"A group of scientists "

Xiang Zhang
Nicholas Fang
Dr.Cheng Sun
Yi Xiong
Dr. Hui Liu
Yongmin Liu
Junyu Mai
Sheng Wang
Hyesog Lee

See the trend here?

UC Berkeley Xlab:

http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/ http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/Publications/Publications/Science-superlens.pdf

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Interesting. Going to have to bone up on this concept of negative index of refraction. Since the index of refraction is simply the ratio of the speed of light in the medium in question vs the speed of light in a vacuum, c, and c is NOT a negative number, that means for negative refraction media, the speed of light through that material would have to be negative. Wow.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I spy with my really little eye...

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Wrong positive/negative, it is right vs. left handed. The speed of light is the same, but the direction of refraction is different.

[expat_panama]

When lasers first came out in the '60's,  everyone was talking about ray-guns.  We still don't have ray-guns but we do have microchips, disc storage, and fiber optics.

I'm hoping these nano lenses can take us to new horizons also.

[Moonman62]

See the trend here?

Put all those together and it would make quite a name for a law firm.

[Moonman62]

It's all a scam just like the internet. Buy gold. /sarc

[Durus]

You don't think this could lead to hand held "ray" guns?

Darn it!

[July 4th]

Better here than over there.

[Graymatter]

Hooray for the ONR!

[Phsstpok]

See the trend here?

Yeah. They're all Californians.

[Joe Brower]

Nano nano.

[Jabba the Nutt]

But they're OUR Chinese, who are better than THEIR Chinese. ;^)

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. I donno if this is for the science list or not, but I've re-configured the ping list logo and I want to use it, so I'll let 'er rip.

[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

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[general_re]

Dammit, and I was just weeks away from completing my own superlens last year, when the dog knocked over my workbench and ruined everything. Set me back months. Sigh.