Nanodiamonds feel the heat
An international team of researchers created nanodiamond sensors that can act as both heat sources and thermometers, and is using ...
Tag: Optics
Controlling chemical catalysts with sculpted light
Credit: Katherine Sytwu Like a person breaking up a cat fight, the role of catalysts in a chemical reaction is ...
Dual-shot dynamics and ultimate frequency of all-optical magnetic recording on GdFeCo
Credit: by Sicong Wang, Chen Wei, Yuanhua Feng, Hongkun Cao, Wenzhe Li, Yaoyu Cao, Bai-Ou Guan, Arata Tsukamoto, Andrei Kirilyuk, ...
Towards applications: ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials
Credit: by Tian Dong, Jiujiu Liang, Philip Camayd-Muñoz, Yueyang Liu, Haoning Tang, Shota Kita, Peipei Chen, Xiaojun Wu, Weiguo Chu, ...
Diffractive networks light the way for optical image classification
Credit: by Md Sadman Sakib Rahman, Jingxi Li, Deniz Mengu, Yair Rivenson and Aydogan Ozcan Recently there has been a ...
A highly sensitive technique for measuring the state of a cytoskeleton
Credit: Associate Professor Takumi Higaki A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively ...
A scanning transmission X-ray microscope for analysis of chemical states of lithium
Credit: NINS/IMS Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely used for daily products in our life, such as hybrid cars, cell phone, ...
Studying chaos with one of the world’s fastest cameras
Credit: Caltech There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon ...
Raman spectroscopy shows promise for diagnosing oral cancer
Technology could enable non-invasive cancer screening in the dentist's chairCredit: Levi Matthies, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf WASHINGTON -- In a ...
Researchers at Brazil’s space institute discover why lightning branches and flickers
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous ...
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot-spots
Credit: by Xianglong Miao, Lingyue Yan, Yun Wu and Peter Q. Liu Optical sensors can quantitatively analyze chemical and biological ...
Columbia engineers first to observe avalanches in nanoparticles
Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching;" finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light ...
Towards Exawatt-class lasers
Researchers from Osaka University propose a concept for next-generation ultra-intense lasers, possibly increasing the current record from 10 Petawatts to ...
Long-range energy transport in perovskite nanocrystal films
Credit: by Tze Chien Sum Producing clean energy and reducing the power consumption of illumination and personal devices are key ...