Light and Optics

Capitol Theatre prepares to open (The Maryville Daily Times)

6 Jul 2008

A renovated Capitol Theatre, which is to open Aug. 31 in downtown Maryville, will be a way to turn back time but with all the modern electronic conveniences.

Science fiction might soon evolve into science fact (The Champaign News-Gazette)

6 Jul 2008

URBANA – Harry Potter's invisibility cloak may soon be within the reach of any ordinary American with a little silicon photonic crystal and a Ph.D. in engineering. Say you have a battleship and you want to park it in the Boneyard without plugging quarters into Champaign's exorbitant meters. The cloak thought up by two University of Illinois researchers would bend light around the battleship, ...

Pools glisten with new features (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

6 Jul 2008

Today's pools aren't all the energy guzzlers or chemical soups of the past. As with cars, new technologies have created efficient systems to treat and clean the pool, light and heat it.