Us to develop the world's first Nano-optical drive motor

United States Department of energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Berkeley, announced the successful development of the world's first Nano-optical drive motor (Motor Nano-sized Light Mill).

Responsible for research and development scientist said, through the light frequency control of motor, and can be applied to create clean energy, bio-medical, and other fields.

Under the auspices of the hosting of Berkeley Center for nanoscience and engineering in Chinese director Zhang Xiang (Xiang Zhang, transliterated) pointed out that the optical control of the motor size is very small, only 100 units of nano, but the resulting dynamic enough to drive 40 times the size of the Silicon disk.

And the study found that through the different length of Spectra, provides an easy way to control motor rotation speed and direction, thus creating a faster rotation speeds or greater impetus.

Zhang Xiang, said the State-of-the-art technology that significantly reduces the size of the motor.

To practical application range is extensive, including nano-magnetic system (nano electro mechanical system, NEMS), Nano solar collectors (nanoscale solar light harvester), or even available to create extremely tiny robot control system for biological cells and DNA Molecular study of inspection.