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Research Breakthrough: uOttawa Physicist Makes First Direct Measurements Of Quantum States Of Light

2013-03-08 06:47:17| pollutiononline News Articles

A groundbreaking discovery by a team led by Robert Boyd, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, has enabled the first direct measure of polarization states of photon light, the directions in which the electric and magnetic fields of light oscillate.

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Engineering breakthrough promises significantly more efficient solar cells

2013-03-07 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: A new technique developed by University of Toronto Engineering Professor Ted Sargent and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper published in the journal Nano Letters. The paper, "Jointly-tuned plasmonic-excitonic photovoltaics using nanoshells," describes a new technique to improve efficiency in colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics, a technology which already promises inexpensive, more efficient solar cell technology. Quantum dot photovoltaics...

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Western Digital claims HDD capacity doubled with nanotech breakthrough

2013-03-01 21:31:34| InfoWorld: Top News

Western Digital has announced what it said is a nanotechnology breakthrough that will allow the company to double data storage capacity on hard disk drives (HDD).

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InvenSense Powers Breakthrough Basketball Analysis Tool From InfoMotion Sports Technologies

2013-02-27 17:13:39| Electronics - Topix.net

InvenSense, Inc. , the leading provider of MotionTracking devices, and InfoMotion Sports Technologies, the world's leader for sports products that quantify and digitize athletic skills requiring high levels of muscle memory, announced that InvenSense's ITG-3200 and MPU-9150 devices are enabling InfoMotion's 94Fifty sensor basketball skill analysis ... (more)

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