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Etching Out Organic Displays: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/27/2009 | 2 Comments; Company will sell materials for making organic electronics using silicon manufacturing infrastructure.

Tiny Devices Use Light to Grab Cells: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/26/2009 | 5 Comments; Silicon chips and lasers could pick out and count cells on microfluidic devices.

Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells: By Kate Greene | 10/19/2009 | 3 Comments; Thin-film silicon solar cells are more efficient with tiny holes in the back electrical contact.

Building the World's Most Powerful Laser: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/15/2009 | 1 Comment; New lasers will be key to making fusion energy and proton therapy practical.

Detecting Light with Graphene: By Prachi Patel | 10/13/2009; The atom-thick carbon material could have optoelectronic applications.

Nobel for Revolutionary Optical Technologies: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/06/2009 | 5 Comments; The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to a fiber-optics pioneer and the inventors of digital-imaging chips.

Big Blue's DNA-Reading Chips: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/06/2009 | 1 Comment; IBM scientists are developing microchips for genome sequencing.

Material to Chill "Dirty" Fuel Cells: By Katherine Bourzac | 10/01/2009 | 8 Comments; A new anode allows solid-oxide fuel cells to function at lower temperatures.

Nanosensing Transistors Controlled by Stress: By Katherine Bourzac | 09/29/2009; A novel nanoscale sensor responds to mechanical stresses.

Time Lens Speeds Optical Data: By Katherine Bourzac | 09/28/2009 | 4 Comments; An energy-efficient silicon device compresses light to make ultrafast signals.

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