在压力下制造光纤玻璃。宾夕法尼亚州立大学，2020年12月28日–根据日本宾夕法尼亚州立大学和AGC Inc.的研究，用于光纤应用的硅玻璃在高压下制造时可能表现更好。研究人员证明，这样做可以减少材料中的信号损耗。宾夕法尼亚州立大学材料科学与工程学教授约翰·毛罗（John C.Mauro）和他的团队使用分子模拟来评估加压器的使用。 查看详细>>

II-VI sees benefits of EUV'surge'.01Nov2017 Production lines for carbon dioxide laser optics running at full capacity thanks to adoption of new lithography tools.Capacity ramp:carbon dioxide laser optics Diversified photonics and materials company II-VI has posted an 18per cent increase in sales,thanks in part to demand stimulated by the adoption of extreme ultraviolet(EUV)lithography in chip production.The Pittsburgh-headquartered company said that revenues in the three months... 查看详细>>

Gravity-wave trio win physics Nobel.03Oct2017 Rainer Weiss,Kip Thorne and Barry Barish recognized for'truly remarkable'achievement.LIGO pioneers:Barish,Thorne and Weiss Three of the key scientists behind the first direct observation of gravitational waves with giant laser interferometers have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.The Nobel committee awarded half of the prize and its SEK9million($1.1million)reward to Germany-born Rainer"Rai"Weiss from the Massachusetts Insti... 查看详细>>

X-ray laser takes 3D images of lopsided viruses.Oct 5,20172017-10-05T14:50:35+0100 Slalom course:the LCLS undulator hall Extremely bright and short-lived pulses of X-rays from afree-electron laser have been used to generate 3D images of virus particles.Unlike existing methods,the technique can be used to identify asymmetries in the structure of biological molecules and could lead to the development of drugs that target molecules whose properties cannot be studied using conven... 查看详细>>