EU ADVANCED OPTICAL RESEARCH
February 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE MANIPULATION of atoms within materials by using optical devices, (such as 3D light field synthesis), is being developed by a consortium of European organisations with Britain paying a leading role. The ATOM3D project is one of a number of "visionary" sciences that the European Union (EU) is funding under its New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) scheme for 2004 and is slated to receive funding of around Euro 1 million.ATOM3D is a project to improve the present "optical tweezers" which is a means of using optics to locate and manipulate ...
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