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Caltech Invention Focuses Light Like Never Before, Could Bolster Next-Gen Communication Platforms

Posted December 09, 2012 12:41 PM

From Engadget:

Light. What is it? What isn't it? Such are the questions left to the experts at Caltech, which have just concocted a new device that can focus light to a point just a few nanometers wide. That kind of precision has never been done at scale, and the university is hoping that the invention could help "pave the way for the next-generation of communication, computing, and even imaging technology."

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12/10/2012 3:47 AM

Engadget link broken - here's the phys.org article.

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12/10/2012 6:00 AM

Engadget link fixed - but phys.org article stands.

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