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Hubble sees celestial fireworks
The telescope captures stars and stripes in a supernova remnant.
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- Herschel under test
- Tamm plasmon polaritons: Slow and spatially compact light
- Goddard’s new instrument approved
- New 2-year mission for Cassini
- Size-selective optical forces for microspheres using evanescent wave excitation of whispering gallery modes
- Intensity-dependent enhancement of saturable absorption in PbS–Au[sub 4] nanohybrid composites: Evidence for resonant energy transfer by Auger recombination
- Multilayer white polymer light-emitting diodes with deoxyribonucleic acid-cetyltrimetylammonium complex as a hole-transporting/ electron-blocking layer
- Looking at the nanomechanics of electronic devices under the scanning electron microscope
- Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
- Phoenix returns treasure trove for science
- An analysis of 1.55 mu m InAs/InP quantum dash lasers
- Fast photorefractive response and high sensitivity of Zr and Fe codoped LiNbO[sub 3] crystals
- Silicon resonant cavity enhanced photodetector based on the internal photoemission effect at 1.55 mu m: Fabrication and characterization
- Influence of tip-sample interaction in a time-domain terahertz scattering near field scanning microscope
- High-performance 4H-SiC based metal-semiconductor-metal ultraviolet photodetectors with Al[sub 2]O[sub 3]/SiO[sub 2] films
- A micromachined optical double well for thermo-optic switching via resonant tunneling effect
- Final checks on lunar satellite
- Gemini sees twin galaxies in embrace
- Phoenix puts soil in chemistry lab
- Massive asteroid impact on Mars
- Contact photolithographic micropatterning for bistable nematic liquid crystal displays
- Liquid microlens with tunable focal length and light transmission
- Three dimensional photoelasticity with equilibrium constraint
- Efficient GaN slab vertical light-emitting diode covered with a patterned high-index layer
- Gain and continuous-wave laser power enhancement with a multiple discharge electric oxygen-iodine laser
- Huge lenses to observe cosmic dark energy
- Strong orange/red electroluminescence from hydrogenated polymorphous silicon carbon light-emitting devices
- Multibands of negative refractive indexes in the left-handed metamaterials with multiple dendritic structures
- Surface plasmon enhanced transmission and directivity through subwavelength slit in X-band microwaves
- Radio telescopes reveal unseen galactic cannibalism
- Ultrafast reset time of superconducting single photon detectors
- Fluorescence lifetime of Mn-doped ZnSe quantum dots with size dependence
- Titanium dioxide nanotube arrays improve solar cells
- Stopping light in metamaterials: the trapped rainbow
- Earth’s laws still apply in distant universe
- Hawaii lavas yield fingerprint of planetary formation
- Ice on Mars
- Time dependent degradation of photovoltaic modules by ultraviolet light
- Enhanced terahertz radiation from high stacking fault density nonpolar GaN
- Photoemission study of Cs–NF[sub 3] activated GaAs(100) negative electron affinity photocathodes
- Negative refraction with high transmission at visible and near-infrared wavelengths
- Efficiency and reliability enhancement of silicon nanocrystal field-effect luminescence from nitride-oxide gate stacks
- Green light emitting diodes on a-plane GaN bulk substrates
- Hungry, hungry black holes
- Phoenix makes first trench in science reserve
- Newly born twin stars show surprising differences
- Performance enhancement of GaN ultraviolet avalanche photodiodes with p-type delta-doping
- Strong light-matter coupling in ultrathin double dielectric mirror GaN microcavities
- Whispering gallery mode lasing in zinc oxide microwires
- Dynamic heterodyne near field scattering
- Fabrication and characterization of periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide using femtosecond laser pulses
- Q-factor and density of optical modes in pyramidal and cone-shaped GaAs microcavities
- High frequency measurements on an AlN/GaN-based intersubband detector at 1550 and 780 nm
- Photonic bandgap of gradient quasidiamond lattice photonic crystal
- Efficient generation of cross-polarized femtosecond pulses in cubic crystals with holographic cut orientation
- Terahertz near-field imaging of metallic subwavelength holes and hole arrays
- Focusing of hard x-rays to 16 nanometers with a multilayer Laue lens
- NASA tests lunar robots and spacesuits on earthly moonscape
- Mission to Mars
- Enhancement in microwave modulation efficiency of vertical cavity surface-emitting laser by optical feedback
- Radar generates high-resolution topographic map of the Moon
- The Internationalisation of Business R&D: Evidence, Impacts and Implications
- A trio of super-Earths
- Intrinsic optical modulation mechanism in electro-optic crystals
- NASA finds new type of comet dust mineral
- Optical properties of yellow light-emitting diodes grown on semipolar (11[overline 2]2) bulk GaN substrates
- Cross-sectional study of periodic surface structures on gallium phosphide induced by ultrashort laser pulse irradiation
- Correlated enhancement of linear and nonlinear optical response of nanoslits
- Lighting up polymer LEDs through nanotechnology
- Students prepare for dust up
- Phoenix’s oven is full
- Pluto-like objects now called Plutoids
- GLAST successfully launches
- High-brightness relaxed-bend state in a pi cell stabilized by synchronized polymerization
- Quantum-dot comb laser with low relative-intensity noise for each mode
- Radio astronomers catch a glimpse of an astrophysical jet
- Interference between two coherently driven monochromatic terahertz sources
- A phase feature extraction technique for terahertz reflection spectroscopy
- Hubble images detail galactic “mergers and acquisitions”
- Phoenix tests a sprinkle technique
- Quantum dot-embedded microspheres for remote refractive index sensing
- Monte Carlo simulation of extraction barrier width effects on terahertz quantum cascade lasers
- Highly efficient broadband second harmonic generation using polydomain epitaxial barium titanate thin film waveguides
- Generation of a squeezing vacuum at a telecommunication wavelength with periodically poled LiNbO[sub 3]
- Monolithic rare-earth doped sol-gel tapered rib waveguide laser
- Modulated terahertz responses of split ring resonators by nanometer thick liquid layers
- Silicon photonic integrated circuits made using wafer-scale technology
- Black holes stop star formation
- Astronomers update our galaxy’s structure
- Influence of oxygen passivation on optical properties of PbSe thin films
- Optical bistability and multistability in one-dimensional periodic metal-dielectric photonic crystal
- Intersubband absorption of quantum cascade laser structures and its application to laser modulation
- Tungsten black absorber for solar light with wide angular operation range
- Super-luminous supernovae
- Infrared surveys reveal the Milky Way as never before
- Low-threshold and broadly tunable lasers of Yb[sup 3+]-doped yttrium lanthanum oxide ceramic
- Effect of buffer gas ratios on the relationship between cell temperature and frequency shifts of the coherent population trapping resonance
- Collinear source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at nondegenerate wavelengths
- Absolute external luminescence quantum efficiency of zinc oxide
- Highly efficient and ultra small Bragg mirrors
- Small planet, small star
- Winding spiral arms reveal black hole mass