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Comments: 63 +- Science: Light Resonators Used To Move Nano-Sized Objects on Sunday November 22, @06:03PM
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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."
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missing tag (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm saddened that I had to wait all the way to post #2.
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Micro Inductive Light Force?
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goatse, tubgirl and GNAA I can take. But now SPAM, on my slashdot? Someone please ban this fucker.
How nice. (Score:5, Funny)
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But your body has billions of nano-sized things.
That's not what your MOMS said!
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The future is looking transparent now that light has been shed on this previously opaque topic.
Please read at least the summery next time before posting, thank you! - /. Asshole #1547521
P.S. I must be new here...
I wasn't off-topic as THIS! IS! SLASHHHDOOOOT!!!!
Makes things obvious in Soviet Russia (Score:1)
This is an example of using some light to cast an issue.
I for one, (Score:3, Funny)
won't be happy until I can cast magic missiles at these issues.
(You thought I was going to welcome our new micro-watt light resonator using overlords didn't you... Well there I just did...)
That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
You should see how my laser pointer makes the cat move!
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Does this work on Schroedinger's cat?
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Future switching? (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder if this will be used in future optical routers and switches or even processors - if the opaque-transparent (and back) switch happens fast enough, you could easily do a very large number of parallel on-off switches to optical pathways. No need for lots of MEMS/MOMS mirrors any more.
Imagine a nanoscale thinking machines cm-5, except the light panels would then actually be part of the computation, controlling which nodes are on or off.
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Sonic screwdriver (Score:1, Funny)
In a few years?
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In a few years?
Or quite possibly, a few years ago...
(TARDIS sounds in the background)
MOMS? (Score:4, Insightful)
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SRSLY... Standard Resonant Simplified Laser Yield?
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.
Re:How about giving credit where due? (Score:4, Interesting)
My guess is it's Michal Lipson's group:
http://nanophotonics.ece.cornell.edu/ [cornell.edu]
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The research by postdoctoral researcher Gustavo Wiederhecker, Long Chen, Ph.D. '09, Alexander Gondarenko, Ph.D. '10, and Lipson appears in the online edition of the journal Nature and will appear in a forthcoming print edition.
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Fusion? (Score:2)
Anyone know if something like this could be used to apply a strong enough force to allow one to make a micro-sized fusion reactor?
Next Week (Score:5, Funny)
Heavy Resonators Used To Move Mega-sized Objects
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That’s called an American discotheque. ^^
Telekinesis! (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone who thinks it is telekinesis, please raise my hand.
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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.
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As opposed to a married milliwatt?
Re:1 mW is just a single milliwatt? (Score:5, Funny)
oh damn, apparently
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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]
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Only Nano-sized? (Score:1)
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No thats an Eclipse sized object.
The paper can be read, as usual (Score:1)
silicon nitride deformation - mirrors/light paths (Score:1)
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