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Harnessing Light to Drive Nanomachines Thursday, November 27, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Nanotechnology   
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Fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun’s light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill even the oversized sails that have been tried. Now a team led by researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science has shown that the force of light indeed can be harnessed to drive machines — when the process is scaled to nano-proportions. Their work opens the door to a new class of semiconductor devices that are operated by light. (source: opa.yale.edu)
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