light is the secret determinant of History: AtD

[Brock Vond]

Hey Mark -

Could you point me to the original source please... very interesting  
and I'm curious to see exactly how far over my head this info flies...

Thx.
B


On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> HENRI LEZEC has a problem. He has been trying to use the tiny  
> pressure exerted by light to move miniscule mechanical components. A  
> light-powered micromachine could have all sorts of uses but Lezec, a  
> photonics researcher at the US National Institute of Standards and  
> Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hasn't had much luck  
> getting them to work. Frustratingly, the components keep sticking to  
> the optical fibre that is beaming light at them.
>
>

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