Dresden researchers develop new strategy for efficient OLED active matrix displays
Credit: ©Zhongbin Wu In the group of Prof. Karl Leo, physicists, material scientists and engineers are working jointly on the ...
Tag: Optics
Researchers detects chiral structures using vortex light
Credit: NI Jin Recently, the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Engineering, School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology ...
Plastic solar cells combine high-speed optical communication with indoor energy harvesting
Credit: by Iman Tavakkolnia, Lethy K. Jagadamma, Rui Bian, Pavlos P. Manousiadis, Stefan Videv, Graham A. Turnbull, Ifor D. W. ...
The time is ripe! An innovative contactless method for the timely harvest of soft fruits
Scientists develop convenient technique to measure ripeness using laser-induced plasma shockwaves and the ensuing vibrations on the fruit's surfaceCredit: Shibaura ...
Second order optical merons, or light pretending to be a ferromagnet
Credit: Source: Physics UW, M. Krol The scientists have demonstrated how to structure light such that its polarization behaves like ...
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead ...
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion powerCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021) ...
From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools
Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulsesCredit: Daniel Flamm et al. If ...
NTU scientists develop laser system that generates random numbers at ultrafast speeds
Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists has developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred ...
Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas
New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light sourceCredit: Image ...
Accelerator physics: Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are.Credit: Tsinghua ...
Recent progress in heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration
Credit: by Di Liang and John E. Bowers Integrated photonics was rejuvenated as Si starting challenging the dominant position of ...
Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to the two scientists who developed new nanomaterials with applications in solar ...
Green revolution in electronic displays expected to ease energy and health crises
Credit: by Yuyang Wang, Hui Nie, Jinsong Han, Yaxun An, Yu-Mo Zhang and Sean Xiao-An Zhang The development of low-energy-consumption ...
Fibre-integrated, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source
Credit: by Gebhardt, M., Heuermann, T., Klas, R. et al. Bright, coherent soft X-ray radiation (SXR) is used in many ...
New sensor paves way to low-cost sensitive methane measurements
Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilitiesCredit: ...
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Credit: by Foued Amrani, Jonas H. Osório, Frédéric Delahaye, Fabio Giovanardi, Luca Vincetti, Benoît Debord, Frédéric Gérôme, Fetah Benabid... Recent ...
Optical frequency combs found a new dimension
Credit: EPFL/Alexey Tikan Periodic pulses of light forming a comb in the frequency domain are widely used for sensing and ...
Seeing stable topology using instabilities
Scientists decipher fingerprints of topological phases of light in nonlinear optical instabilitiesCredit: Institute for Basic Science We are most familiar ...
3D microscopy clarifies understanding of body’s immune response to obesity
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers who focus on fat know that some adipose tissue is ...