Tag: Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

  • Science & Tech

    Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays

    A collaborative team of scientists at Harvard and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional THz laser sources.  The advance, published in NatureMaterials, opens the door to a wide range of applications in terahertz science and technology.  Harvard has filed…

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  • Science & Tech

    By ‘putting a ring on it,’ microparticles can be captured

    To trap and hold tiny microparticles, research engineers at Harvard have “put a ring on it,” using a silicon-based circular resonator to confine particles stably for up to several minutes.

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  • Science & Tech

    Bringing new meaning to the term scientific paper

    An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides and cell biologist Donald Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells – and it’s as cheap and easy as reaching for a paper towel. Ratmir Derda, a postdoctoral student co-mentored by Whitesides and Ingber at Harvard’s…

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