Light Resonators Used To Move Nano-Sized Objects 63
ElectricSteve writes "Scientists at Cornell University report they can now use a light beam carrying a single milliwatt of power to move objects and even change the optical properties of silicon from opaque to transparent at the nanometric scale." As the article says, such an advancement "could prove very useful for the future of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) and micro-optomechanical (MOMS) systems."
MOMS? (Score:4, Insightful)
How about giving credit where due? (Score:4, Insightful)
The article doesn't give the names of any of the people involved in this, or any links where more detail can be found. Isn't it bad enough that researchers are paid crap; do they have to be anonymous too? How about giving these people some credit for their work.
1 mW is just a single milliwatt? (Score:2, Insightful)
Now let's see if I get the -1 Off-topic that this post surely deserves.
More info (Score:3, Insightful)
This is the same basic result as a previous article:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1856230/New-Optomechanical-Crystal-Allows-Confinement-of-Light-and-Sound [slashdot.org]
The structure in the current article is a ring resonator in this article. In the previous article the structure was a grating based resonator.
I found an article with better information:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=optical-force-gradient [scientificamerican.com]
Re:Telekinesis! (Score:1, Insightful)