Sonoluminescence

Boosting Sonoluminescence - Accepted for publication in 1996, this paper describes how a bimodal sound excitation can enhance light production.

The Casimir Effect: Physical Manifestations of Zero Point Energy - Describes the connection between the Casimir effect and sonoluminescence. Full text in PDF, PS and DVI file formats.

The Chemical and Physical Effects of Ultrasound - Provides background on how sonoluminescence can be used in chemistry.

Impulse Devices - Developing a Sonofusion power generator which harnesses the energy in sonoluminescence to provide the necessary temperatures for fusion reactions.

Physics News Graphics: The Sonoluminescence Process - Provides a four step theory on sonoluminescence.

Scientific American: Sonoluminescence - Provides explanation of why it is unlikely that sonoluminescence produces the conditions necessary to initiate or facilitate nuclear fusion, as suggested in the movie "Chain Reaction".

Single Bubble Sonoluminescence - Provides detailed instructions on how to produce single and multi bubble sonoluminescence.

Sonoluminescence - Provides history, properties and theories.

Sonoluminescence - By Chris Petersen. Provides history, overview and specifics of his experiment.

Sonoluminescence and Medical Ultrasound - Provides diagrams of what sonoluminescence may look like close up.

Sonoluminescence Experiment: Sound Into Light - W.A. Steer's account of his work to construct apparatus to enable the observation of sonoluminescence, to investigate its basic properties, and leave a kit and instructions to form the basis of a future final-year undergraduate experiment.

Sonoluminescence in Space at Boston University - Proposes to study sonoluminescence in space and in microgravity.

Sonoluminescence.com - Maker of sonoluminescence kits. Provides instructions and suggested experiments.

Symposium on Sonoluminescence - Provides abstracts for a symposium held at the University of Chicago in 1997.