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III. RESEARCH REPORTED BY SCIENCE MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS

Several significant achievements in our research have been reported by various science and technology magazines, including:

1.     Scientific American, March 1998 Vol. 278 No. 3 [PDF]

2.     Science, Vol. 269, No. 5229, September 1995, pp. 1363 to 1364, "Future of Computing - Computer Scientists Rethink Their Discipline's Foundation". [PDF]

3.     New Scientist, No. 2089, July 5, 1997, p. 2121, "A Switch in Time - Optical Computers Are a Micrometre Closer to Reality". [PDF]

4.     Science News, Vol. 151, No. 25, June 21, 1997, p. 380, "Ringing Up a Microscopic Light Switch". [PDF]

5.     Discover Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 10, October 1995, p. 32, "Breakthroughs (Physics) - Li'l Laser."

6.     IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 6, December 1995, p. 7, "Hot Topics - Photonic-Wire Microcavity Ring Lasers".

7.     Semiconductor International, August 1997, p. 19, "Northwestern University Develops Breakthrough in Nanoscale Photonics". [PDF]

8.     Inside R & D - The Weekly Report on Technical Innovation, Vol. 24, No. 44, November 1995, p. 5, "Photonic Wires Show 70% Lasing Efficiency".

9.     Laser Focus World Article, - September 1998.

10.  Chicago Tribune, June 5, 1997, pp. 1-2, "Computers May Get Boost To Light Speed – Researchers at Northwestern Have Attracted Investors With Their Efforts to Make Chips That Manipulate Photons, Increasing Power Tremendously". [PDF]

11.  Laser Focus World, July 1997, pp. 18-22, "Microresonators provide optical building blocks".

12.  New Scientist, 5 July 1997, pp 21.

13.  Opto-Electronics Reports, July 1996, "Nanofabrication of Microcavity Should Lead to Low-Threshold Lasers."

14.  Chicago Tribune, Sunday, July 2, 1995, Section 5, p. 2, "Discoveries - Finding Ways to Trap Energy of Light.     

15.  Panorama (Italian Times) (1995).     

16.  Opto and Laser Europe (1995).

17.  Science Et Avenir (1995).                                                                                    

18. Electronics Weekly, No. 1744, November 8, 1995, p. 16, "Technology News - The Photon Strikes Back."

19.  Christian Science Monitor, Tuesday, June 13, 1995, p13, "Science & Technology - Microscopic Beams of Light Could Run Tomorrow's Computers and Phone Lines.  No Phasers or Light Shows:  Tiny Lasers Hone Efficiency."

20.  Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1995, p. 8, "Photonic Wire Makes Efficient Microlaser."                                                                      

21.  Laser Focus World, Vol. 31, No. 8, August 1995, pp. 24-28,  "World News - Miniature Semiconductor Lasers:  Quantum Ring Confines Photons in Wire Laser."

22.  New Scientist, October 1995, p. 23, "Tiny Laser Sheds More Light."

23.  Science News,  Vol. 147, No. 23, June 1995, p. 367, "Lasing in a Photonic Wire".

24.  The Economist, December 24th, 1994 - January 6th, 1995, pp. 100-102, "Lasers  - Let There Be Light".

25.  Chicago Tribune, Sunday, November 6, 1994, "Discoveries - World's Smallest Laser Developed By Universities".

26.  Photonics Spectra, November 1994, p. 22, "Photonic Technology World - Minuscule Laser Aims at Fiber Optic Duty."

27.  Laser Focus World, April 1994, p. 11, "News Breaks - Multiple-Quantum-Well Microdisk Laser Emits at 1.5 mm."

28.  Laser Focus World, December 1994, pp. 22-23, "World News - Miniature Lasers: Double Microdisk Steers Output Laser Light." 

29.  Opto and Laser Europe (1994).