Asylum Research announces the fourth Euro AFM Forum

Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, Calif., an Oxford Instruments company, in conjunction with Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany, announces the fourth Euro AFM Forum to be held March 17-19, 2014.

Tapping energy from the sun through heat and light

A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell.