Breakthrough technology offers new hope to people with glaucoma, retinitis and macular degeneration
Date | 20th, Nov 2018 |
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Source | News Medical - Scientific News Websites |
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In January 2009, the life of engineer Michel Meunier, a professor at Polytechnique Montréal, changed dramatically. Like others, he had observed that the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser (0.000000000000001 second) could make nanometer-sized holes appear in silicon when it was covered by gold nanoparticles.