Optical microscope

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...the invention of (John Bardeen and colleagues in 1948); - fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
...Using the nanotechnology scientists were able to make a significant step towards inventing an "optical cloaking", which represents a device able to make objects invisible. The device guides light around anything that is placed withing the so-called "cloak". The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in i...
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	Blu-ray is Being Adopted Much Faster Than DVD 11 Years Ago
...ready by far exceeded the volume at the start of the DVD eleven years ago with 17 machines," commented Stefan Baustert, the Chief Financial Officer of Singulus Technologies. The German producer of optical disk equipment and world's only provider of such services as mastering, molding and replication states that there were additional orders of Blu-ray dual-player machines in this year's first quarter and that for the fi...
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	Pioneer Presents Its 400GB Optical Disc
... Tokyo-based multinational corporation that deals with digital entertainment products, Pioneer, claims to create world's first optical disc with 16 layers. The company's officials did not reveal any details regarding the format of the medium, but they said that each data layer features the same capacity as a Blu-ray disk. Having 16 layers, each with a capacity of 25 GB, means that the disk can store information on a 4...
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