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Photonic Breakthrough Allows 'Lab-on-a-Chip'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smaller-and-cheaper dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultiplier (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals. This optical discovery opens the way to sophisticated and cheap bio-sensors mounted on 'lab-on-a-chip' devices -- sensors to run blood tests, detect chemicals in water supplies or for drug testing. Their new WD is less than a millimeter in all dimensions rather than the several centimeters of other currently available WDs. And it should not cost more to produce."

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  1. MAC PRO: REVEALED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    New enclosure
    Conroe in $1,500 Mac Pro
    Woodcrest in $2,500 mid-range and $3,999 Quad

    details@macrumors

  2. Awesome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Surely, that was not one of the first things I wanted to see upon waking up...

  3. WDM's in iraq? by plasmacutter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the absence of wmd's, bush administration press secretary snow today announced they have found a WDM in iraq (ducks)

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