Nanostructures – structures measuring about a hundred nanometres which diffract light – are used to create new optical instruments by imitating nature. What applications are being considered? Could they revolutionize the telecommunications industry?
Date: 2010 Duration: 6.04 Produced by: Jean-Yves Pipaud, EPSIM Credits: SOLEIL synchrotron, NASA Ames Research Center, CEA, www.slideshare.net, The next industrial revolution? The nanotechnologies: a source of innovation for businesses, Pascal Royer, Nanotechnology and Optical Instrumentation Laboratory (LNIO), University of Technology of Troyes, Flickr / Papillons http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lotus3.jpg (lotus effect)
