Light on efficiency loss in organic solar cells
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Insight into energy losses that affect the conversion of light into electricity could help ...
Tag: Optics
Not all cats are grey in the dark!
Using two mode-locked femtosecond lasers and a single photon counting detector, scientists have recorded broad spectra with close to one ...
QCLs exhibit extreme pulses
Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers enable an optical neuron system 10,000× faster than biological neuronsCredit: Spitz et al., doi ...
FEFU scientists helped design a new type of ceramics for laser applications
Credit: FEFU press office Material scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) joined an international team of researchers to develop ...
Finally, a way to see molecules ‘wobble’
Microscopy breakthrough reveals how proteins behave in 3D, enabling new insights into cell behavior and disease progressionCredit: University of Rochester ...
Turning streetwear into solar power plants
Ready-to-wear solar cellsCredit: EMPA Our hunger for energy is insatiable, it even continues to rise with the increasing supply of ...
Researchers develop simple way to capture high quality 3d images of live cells and organisms
New approach captures multifocus microscopy images with high speedsCredit: Sheng Xiao, Boston University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a simple ...
AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find ‘new Earths’
Australian scientists' invention will decipher the 'twinkle' of starsCredit: NASA. Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to ...
SPIE Neurophotonics event to showcase latest neuroscience research
The mini-symposium will present a wealth of neuroscience-related optical technology and applicationsCredit: SPIE On 30 October, SPIE, the international society ...
New technology could improve LASIK surgery, eye disease detection
University of Houston professor to create ultrafast 3D clinical imaging systemCredit: University of Houston LASIK eye surgery - a laser ...
Asymmetric optical camouflage: Tuneable reflective color accompanied by optical Janus effect
Credit: Taehyun Kim, Eui-Sang Yu, Young-Gyu Bae, Jongsu Lee, In Soo Kim, Seok Chung, Seung-Yeol Lee, and Yong-Sang Ryu In ...
Hidden-symmetry-enforced nexus points of nodal lines in layer-stacked dielectric photonic crystals
Credit: by Zhongfei Xiong, Ruo-Yang Zhang2, Rui Yu, C. T. Chan, Yuntian Chen Discovering and synthesizing symmetry-protected topological (SPT) band ...
No stain? No sweat: Terahertz waves can image early-stage breast cancer without staining
Team of researchers at Osaka University make key breakthrough towards on-site cancer diagnosisCredit: Osaka University A team of researchers at ...
A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes
Nanophotonics researchers demonstrate ultrafast polarization switchingCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 19, 2020) - U.S. and Italian ...
Microscopy beyond the resolution limit
Credit: Source: UW Physics, A. Makowski The Polish-Israeli team from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and ...
High pressure is key for better optical fibers
Credit: Yongjian Yang, et al., npj Computational Materials, September 17, 2020 Optical fiber data transmission can be significantly improved by ...
Molecular design strategy reveals near infrared-absorbing hydrocarbon
Credit: Norihito Fukui Nagoya University researchers have synthesized a unique molecule with a surprising property: it can absorb near infrared ...
‘Classified knots’: uOttawa researchers create optical framed knots to encode information
Credit: University of Ottawa In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Israeli scientists have ...
A flash of light to identify tumors: the results of the VIBRA project of the Politecnico di Milano
Funded by ERC and just completed, the project uncovers the cellular mechanisms underlying various diseases thanks to a new optical ...
uOttawa researchers find cheaper, faster way to measure the electric field of light
Credit: Aleksey Korobenko Researchers at uOttawa have created a new method to measure the temporal evolution of electric fields with ...