The interactions between predictive brains, cultural artefacts, and embodied visual search
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Tag: Optics
?NTU scientists develop energy-saving ‘liquid window’
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a liquid window panel that can ...
Shining a light on the issue of wine fraud
Credit: Courtesy of University of Adelaide. University of Adelaide wine researchers are developing a fast and simple method of authenticating ...
Building a quantum network one node at a time
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an ...
100,000-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of Si
Scientists at Osaka University develop silicon nanoresonators that can control the scattering of light when excited by another laser; this ...
Scientists develop method to detect charge traps in organic semiconductors
Scientists at Swansea University have developed a very sensitive method to detect the tiny signatures of so called 'charge traps' ...
3D print experts discover how to make tomorrow’s technology using ink-jet printed graphene
Credit: University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham has cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel ...
New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Planetary scientists from Brown University have developed a new remote sensing method for ...
Tunable THz radiation from 3D topological insulator
Bismuth telluride can efficiently radiate linearly and circularly polarized terahertz waves, with adjustable chirality and polarizationCredit: Haihui Zhao et al., ...
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects
Credit: by Wei Jiang, Tan Zheng, Binmin Wu, Hanxue Jiao, Xudong Wang, Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Meng Peng, Hailu Wang, ...
Light-modulated graphene-organic heterojunction transistors realizing photocurrent logic changes
Credit: by Jiayue Han, Meiyu He, Ming Yang, Qi Han, Fang Wang, Fang Zhong, Mengjian Xu, Qing Li, He Zhu, ...
Dynamic photonic barcodes record energy transfer at the biointerface
Cavity-enhanced radiative energy transfer converts biomolecular information from a single droplet into trillions of distinctive photonic barcodesCredit: Zhou et al., ...
A world record in detecting extremely low levels of gas impurities
Credit: Teemu Tomberg Photoacoustic spectroscopy applied to background-free analyses was used to measure unprecedentedly small trace gas concentrations. Teemu Tomberg ...
Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene
A spot of pressure enables chemical conversion to hardened 2D materialCredit: Illustration by Pavel Sorokin HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) ...
Artificial intelligence-based algorithm for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
Machine-learning algorithm detects early stages of Alzheimer's through functional magnetic resonance imagingCredit: H. Parmar et al. doi 10.1117/1.JMI.7.5.056001. Alzheimer's disease ...
Cell biology gurus and UCF Bioimaging expert partner to crack 4th dimension secrets
The collaboration may lead to new understanding about the role of movement of nuclear organization in gene expression, which could ...
Himanshu Jain: A lifetime of impact in glass science research
Lehigh University professor and researcher recognized by prestigious academic journalCredit: Lehigh University Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University's T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair ...
A question of affinity
How to design organic solar cell materialsCredit: MPI-P Most of us are familiar with silicon solar cells, which can be ...
Dartmouth engineering professor elected OSA fellow
Credit: Robert Gill / Dartmouth Dartmouth engineering professor Jifeng Liu has been named a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA). ...
Stay focused: Algae-inspired polymers light the way for enhanced night vision
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba synthesize an elastic polymer from low-cost, sustainable materials, that can be used it to ...
