Novel approach in algae biofuel production using advanced photonics.

Authors :: Jung, Erica E.
Kalontarov, Michael
Doud, Devin
Angenent, Largus T.
Sinton, David
Erickson, David
Source :: 2012 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics (CLEO); 1/ 1/2012, p1-2, 2p
Publication Year :: 2012
Abstract: Utilization of evanescent fields for photosynthetic bacteria to produce biofuel can lead to thousandfold decrease in the volume of photobioreactors. We demonstrate the growth of bacteria enabled by the evanescent excitation using planar waveguides. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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