They are a portent of things to come. More information at Color Kinetics and LumiLeds web sites. The ALS at Berkeley Lab generates brief impulses of energy a billion times brighter than the sun. These ultrabright high energy x-rays are revolutionizing our ability to see detail at the molecular and atomic levels. The best place to start is their interactive Microworlds on line instructional materials page.
Teachers can register for informaton and materials.
Presented on two seperate pages. Page one is about Building a Display Holography System, and page two is about Making Transmission and Reflection Holograms. Free access to some of their journal articles , and information related to physics in general. On-line exhibit related to Andrei Sakharov available. An article from Scientific American 's archives about developments in optoelectronics based upon the quantum behaviors of sub atomic particles, and the increasingly small size of lasers and similar instruments that confine electron movement in fewer than three dimensions.