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New Nano-Laser Created
Many sources are reporting that researchers have created the world's smallest laser since the inception of lasers almost a half-century ago. Dubbed "spasers," as an acronym for "surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," their incredibly tiny size could become a critical component for future technologies like "nanophotonic" circuitry. "Such circuits will require a laser-light source, but current lasers can't be made small enough to integrate them into electronic chips. Now researchers have overcome this obstacle, harnessing clouds of electrons called 'surface plasmons,' instead of the photons that make up light, to create the tiny spasers."
... geneticists are now working feverishly to develop the world's first nano-shark.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
I tried to find a driver for my new nano laser, for Ubuntu, but no luck. Help!
Awesome! I can finally get this mobile emitter working again so I can get the hell out of sick bay.
Ze Atomic Device! It iz Ztolen!
Optical Writeable Readable Hard drives that are Giga-giga-bakillion-kazakcipaloo-bytes and are random access/seeking - they're coming.
All this technology and Slashdot's scripts still suck.
"Suck" implies stable enough functionality to maintain a vacuum.
So do they split into three parallel beams, thus covering a wider area than a single beam could along? And do they do the whole sinusoidal-oscillation thing if combined with a Wave Beam?
But I think I'll wait for the Laser Shuffle.
Yes, they are; and writing bogus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmon Wikipedia entries about them. /frank
And the worms ate into his brain.
The tiny "pew pew pew" sounds? Hardly sounds fun to me.
"surface plasmons"
Really? Plasmons? Are they just making words up now?
Yeah. It's stupid: we already had the perfectly functional phrase "plasmid" to describe those.
Personally I'm holding out for them perfecting the electricity plasmid.
We have NO nano cats to use it with!
Horton Hears the Pew!
From the Wikipedia article:
"For plasmon-based electronics to be useful, an analog to the transistor, called a plasmonster, must be invented."
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a plasmonster.