Press Releases
•2009•
Articles on our Controlling photonic structures using optical forces paper:
- Cornell Chronicle: Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects.
- Scientific American: Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light.
- Science Daily: Small Optical Force Can Budge Nanoscale Objects.
- USA Today: Nanodevices Bend under the Force of Light.
- Nanotechnology Now: Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects.
- AZoNano.com: Cornell Researchers Use Very Tiny Beam of Light to Move Silicon Structure up to 12 Nanometers.
- Physorg.com: Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects.
- Scienceblog.com: Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects.
- Newswise.com: Small Optical Force Can Budge Nanoscale Objects .
Articles on our Cloaking at Optical Frequencies paper:
- National Geographic: Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility.
- Brisbanetimes.com.au: Muggle invisibility cloak closer to reality.
- BBC News: Invisibility cloak edges closer.
- Physics World: Invisibility cloaks go optical.
- Nextbigfuture.com: Optical Wavelength Cloaking Carpet.
- Digitaljournal.com: From invisibility cloaks to magic carpets.
- Endgadget.com: Quest for invisibility cloaks revisited by two research groups.
- TechnologyReview.com: Carpet Cloaks Bring Invisibility to the Optical World.
- Redorbit.com: Scientists Develop New Invisibility Cloak Technology.
- Sindhtoday.net: Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak edges closer.
- Integrated EOM looks good for intrachip optical interconnects, Laser Focus World, 01 May 2009.
- View several articles on our recent Nature paper on trapping nano- and biomolecules using slot waveguides:
- Using light to move and trap DNA molecules (physorg.com)
- Nano "Tractor Beam" Traps DNA(NSF)
- Using light to move and trap DNA molecules (chemie.de)
- Using light to move and trap DNA molecules (Cornell News, Dec 2008)
- Using light to manipulate with DNA (nanomedecinecenter.com)
- Tractor beams trap and move DNA (nano.org.uk)
•2008 and before•
- Long and Nick's paper "Compact bandwidth-tunable microring resonators" is covered in the Research Highlights of Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, p. 6, Jan. 2008.
- Optical signals interact with MEMS, EE Times Europe, 05 Nov. 2007.
- Optofluidic trapping and transport on solid core waveguides within a microfluidic device, Optics Express, 29 Oct. 2007.
- Storing Light on Chip, technologyreview.com, 20 June 2007.
- Broadband Light Amplifier on a Chip Created, www.photonics.com, 06 July 2006.
- A Broadband Light Amplifier on a Photonic Chip, www.physorg.com, 06 July 2006.
- Microchips powered by light, Science Worlds, 07 July 2006.
- Four-wave mix, The Engineer Online, 07 July 2006.
- Researchers create a broadband light amplifier on a chip, www.brightsurf.com, 07 July 2006.
- Researchers Create Broadband Light Amplifier On A Photonic Chip, www.sciencedaily.com, 07 July 2006.
- Broadband Light Amplifier On A Chip, www.blogspan.org, 07 July 2006.
- Photonic chips see light at the end of the tunnel, www.fibers.org, 13 July 2006.
- From the Lab: Information Technology, MIT Technology Review Magazine TechnologyReview.com, September 2005.
- Ultratiny Silicon Modulator Achieves Gigahertz Speeds, Photonics Spectra, August 2005.
- Nanocavity in a silicon waveguide affords ultrasensitive nanoparticle detection, Biophotonics International, January, 2005.
- Guiding light for optical circuits, Interview with Prof. Lipson, EE Times, 31 January, 2005
- Silicon ring boosts light chips, Technology Research News (Selected by TRN as a Top Pick for Technology Research Advances of 2004), 15 December 2004.
- Silicon circuit demonstrates optical switch , EE Times, 01 November 2004.
- Cornell Devises All-Optical Switch , Photonics.com, 29 October 2004.
- Optical Waveguides a Focus at Cornell, Semiconductor International, 01 March 2004.
- Optical computer components unveiled, EE Times, 16 February 2004.
- Cornell-developed tools to guide and switch light could lead to photonic microchips and practical home fiber-optic lines, Innovations-Report, 16 February 2004.
- Tools to Guide and Switch Light for Photonic Microchips, Newswise, 11 February 2004.
- Low-index slot serves as waveguide, Laser Focus World, February 2004.
- Photonic tech comes to light, CommsDesign, 02 June 2003


