Strathclyde physics professor wins international award for contribution to optics
Credit: Fraunhofer UK A Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde has received a prestigious international ...
Tag: Optics
Highly efficient metasurface poised to improve communication and biosensing
Nanostructured thin film works over an unprecedented centimeter-scale areaCredit: Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a ...
Capturing free-space optical light for high-speed wifi
Plasmonic speed enhancements previously constrained to nanoscale phenomena are replicated on macroscopic devicesCredit: Andrew Traverso, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - ...
Vibrating 2D materials
Credit: (Photo: Susanne Pfarr / University of Würzburg) Current electronic components in computers, mobile phones and many other devices are ...
Scientists create liquid crystals that look a lot like their solid counterparts
Credit: Smalyukh Lab A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror ...
Silicon chip provides low cost solution to help machines see the world clearly
Credit: Pointcloud Inc Researchers in Southampton and San Francisco have developed the first compact 3D LiDAR imaging system that can ...
Object transparency reduces human perception of three-dimensional shapes
Transparent objects look flattenedCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The research team led by Masakazu Ohara, ...
THz spectroscopy tracks electron solvation in photoionized water
THz wave absorption signal with a unique two-step decay characteristic in the time domain was demonstrated, revealing fundamental aspects of ...
Physicists finesse the storing of light to create rainbows of colour
Physicists at the University of Bath have found a way to use resonance to harness the energy of light more ...
Radiative cooling and solar heating from one system, no electricity needed
Study describes passive cooling system that aims to help impoverished communities, reduce cooling and heating costs, lower CO2 emissionsCredit: University ...
Efficiency limits of next-generation hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar technology
Credit: by Gan Huang, Kai Wang and Christos N. Markides. Solar energy is one of the most abundant renewable energy ...
‘Multiplying’ light could be key to ultra-powerful optical computers
Credit: Gleb Berloff An important class of challenging computational problems, with applications in graph theory, neural networks, artificial intelligence and ...
3D-printed spectrometer on a 100 x100 μm² footprint
Credit: by Andrea Toulouse, Johannes Drozella, Simon Thiele, Harald Giessen, and Alois Herkommer Femtosecond direct laser writing as a 3D ...
Silicon waveguides move us closer to faster, light-based logic circuits
Credit: by Urbonas, D., Mahrt, R.F. and Stöferle For decades, the speed of our computers has been growing at a ...
Scientists measure spectral line of Cherenkov radiation in radiant regime
Credit: TPU microtron The scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with the colleagues from Keysight company have conducted an experiment ...
Switching nanolight on and off
Columbia researchers discover a new way to program light on an ultra-small scaleCredit: Ella Maru Studio A team of researchers ...
An optical coating like no other
For the first time, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed an optical coating that can simultaneously reflect and ...
Scientists optimized technology for production of optical materials for microelectronics
Credit: Denis Kosyanov, FEFU PI REC for Advanced Ceramic Materials Research Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have advanced ...
Best of both worlds: A hybrid method for tracking laparoscopic ultrasound transducers
Combined hardware- and computer vision-based strategy will help improve laparoscopic ultrasound imagingCredit: Liu, Plishker, and Shekhar, doi 10.1117/1.JMI.8.1.015001 Laparoscopic surgery, ...
Dynamic 3D printing process features a light-driven twist
Light provides freedom to control each layer and improves precision and speedCredit: Northwestern University The speed of light has come ...