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Reflections on Nobel Prize Winners
Advanced Photonics at ORNL: Shedding Light on a New Initiative
William S. Key and John C. Miller
ORNL has many light-research projects that are now under the Lab's new photonics initiative.
Hybrid Optics: Two Complementary Lenses for the Price of One
Single Dye Molecule Detected in Droplet
Molecular Clusters, Laser Snow, and the Ozone Layer
Photonics on the Production Line
Illuminated Membranes Cleanse Groundwater
Other Photonics Highlights at ORNL
Ultraprecision Manufacturing Technologies for Optics
Brigham Thomas
ORNL's Star Wars work has led to the Ultraprecision Manufacturing Technology Center.
ORNL's Thin-Film Waveguide and the Information Highway
Carolyn Krause
ORNL's barium titanate waveguide for optical switches may boost data traffic on the information highway.
Early Signs of Environmental Damage and Recovery
S. Marshall Adams
Measurable changes in wildlife species can be early predictors of unwanted environmental and health effects, as well as indicators of ecological recovery in streams such as Oak Ridge creeks.
East Fork Poplar Creek: Signs of Ecological Recovery
Carolyn Krause
Technical Highlights--Removing ink from waste newspapers; chemistry lab on a chip; radiation-hardened memory chip; fast-growing grass developed as biofuel feedstock; liquid-metal car engine conceived at ORNL
Educational Activities--DOE's High School Honors Program; superconducting motor at EnvironMental Fair
R&D Updates--Two R&D 100 Awards for ORNL-developed technologies; recoil separator from England for Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility; Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron goal attained; study of effects of greenhouse gases on forests; O
RNL-produced isotope in newly approved bone pain treatment
Technology Transfer--Neural-network software for predicting chemical properties; CRADA with Department of Transportation on data acquisition system for crash avoidance research; medical isotope generator licensed to California firm; supe
rconducting wire technology CRADA
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