[IP] more on U.S. Researchers Invent Antenna for Light
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 20, 2004 7:32:52 PM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: U.S. Researchers Invent Antenna for Light
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[Note: This comment comes from reader Steve Schear. DLH]
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 20, 2004 4:07:39 PM PDT
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Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] U.S. Researchers Invent Antenna for Light
At 01:25 PM 9/18/2004, Dewayne Hendricks wrote:
U.S. Researchers Invent Antenna for Light
Fri Sep 17, 2004 01:59 PM ET
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=scienceNews&storyID=6268375&src=rss/scienceNews§ion=news>
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers said on Friday they have invented
an antenna that captures visible light in much the same way that radio
antennas capture radio waves.
They say the device, using tiny carbon nanotubes, might serve as the
basis for an optical television or for converting solar energy into
electricity once properly developed.
This is not the conceptual breakthrough it might first appear. An
acquaintance of mine, Alvin Marks, the inventor of polarized plastic,
did substantial work in this area in the 70s and 80s filing some
significant patents on optically resonant structures for conversion of
light to electricity and vice versa. He even designed novel bulk
manufacturing process, including a sort of self-assembly at the
molecular level using electrostatic charges to align doped polar
molecules.
steve
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