Shape matters for light-activated nanocatalysts
Study: Pointed tips on aluminum 'octopods' increase catalytic reactivityCredit: Image courtesy of Lin Yuan/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 18, 2020) ...
Tag: Optics
Rochester researchers document an optical fiber beyond compare
Credit: Arjun Iyer/Renninger lab/University of Rochester A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the "noise" interfering with the signals it ...
Who stole the light?
Self-induced ultrafast demagnetization limits the amount of light diffracted from magnetic samples at soft x-ray energiesCredit: MBI Berlin Free electron ...
NRL, NCATS scientists develop method to safely study COVID-19, other contagious diseases
Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences WASHINGTON -- Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and National ...
All-optical method sets record for ultrafast high-spatial-resolution imaging: 15 trillion frames per second
New all-optical imaging technique with an unprecedented frame rate allows scientists to visualize ultrafast transient phenomenaCredit: Zeng et al., doi ...
Self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons
Mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibrationCredit: MBI Berlin One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced ...
Researchers have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector
'Honey, I shrunk the detector'Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen / Roman Shnaiderman Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical ...
Researchers demonstrate record speed with advanced spectroscopy technique
Fast, sensitive dual-comb spectroscopy could be used for fast measurements of fast and non-repeatable eventsCredit: David R. Carlson, National Institute ...
Immunotherapy: Enhancing the therapeutic effectiveness of photothermal cancer treatments
Credit: by Zhongjian Xie, Minhua Peng, Ruitao Lu, Xiangying Meng, Weiyuan Liang, Zhongjun Li, Meng Qiu, Bin Zhang, Guohui Nie, ...
Physicists make electrical nanolasers even smaller
Credit: Dmitry Fedyanin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King's College London cleared the obstacle that ...
Skoltech research puts exciton-polaritons in their place with new artificial laser-built lattices
Credit: Pickup, L. et. al./Nature Communications Researchers at the Hybrid Photonics Laboratories in Skoltech and Southampton (UK), in collaboration with ...
Theoretically, two layers are better than one for solar-cell efficiency
Credit: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Penn State Solar cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells are still ...
Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fibre optical communications
Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered ...
Single photons from a silicon chip
HZDR team develops novel source for quantum light particlesCredit: HZDR/Juniks Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from ...
Single atom-thin platinum makes a great chemical sensor
Credit: JO Yxell/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, together with colleagues from other universities, have ...
DNA damage caused by migrating light energy
UV radiation modifies DNA also far away from the entry point of light - publication in Angewandte ChemieCredit: (Photo: Arthur ...
Physicists discover new magnetoelectric effect
In a very unusual way, the electrical and magnetic properties of a particular crystal are linked together - the phenomenon ...
Get diamonds, take temperature
Quantum thermometer using nanodiamonds senses a 'fever' in tiny worms C. elegansCredit: Masazumi Fujiwara, Osaka City University A team from ...
A phonon laser – coherent vibrations from a self-breathing resonator
Credit: PDI and Instituto Balseiro and Centro Atómico Lasing - the emission of a collimated light beam of light with ...
Revealing the secrets of high-energy cosmic particles
P-ONE: Initiative for a new, large-scale Neutrino Observatory in the Pacific OceanCredit: Elisa Resconi / TUM The "IceCube" neutrino observatory ...