Nanodots made of photovoltaic material support waveguide modes
New spectroscopic technique for studying nanostructures demonstrates that stibnite nanodots can act as high-optical-quality waveguides and are promising candidates as ...
Tag: Optics
Scientists to discover the unique ductile properties of aluminum
During experiments on high-performance wire arc additive manufacturing researchers produced a metal with unique ductilityCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasersCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 24, 2020) ...
Lensless light-field imaging through diffuser encoding
Credit: Zewei Cai, Jiawei Chen, Giancarlo Pedrini, Wolfgang Osten, Xiaoli Liu, and Xiang Peng Light-field imaging can detect both spatial ...
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via in-plane inversion-symmetry broken PhC slabs
Credit: by Jiajun Wang, Han Li, Yating Ma, Maoxiong Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Bo Wang, Shiwei Wu, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi ...
The interplay of nonlinearity and topology–nontrivial eigenmodes coupling induced by nonlinearity
Credit: by Shiqi Xia, DarioJuki?, NanWang, DariaSmirnova, LevSmirnov, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Alexander Szameit, Daniel Leykam, JingjunXu, Zhigang Chen and ...
Investigation of core-shell nanocatalyst AU@CDs for ammonia synthesis
Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, a team of researchers from Xinjiang University, China have prepared Au@CDs photocatalyst ...
Surface deep: Light-responsive top layer of plastic film induces movement
Scientists show that azobenzene-containing film, important for many industries, does not need to be made entirely of light-sensitive material to ...
New insights into lung tissue in COVID-19 disease
Researchers led by Göttingen University develop new three-dimensional imaging technique to visualize tissue damage in severe Covid-19Credit: T Salditt, M ...
A new lens on the world: Improving the metalens with liquid crystal
Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical, aim to 'revolutionize optics' by combining nanostructured metasurfaces with ...
Trapping and controlling light at the interface of atomically thin nanomaterials
Scientists at Cornell University propose a new method to confine light in an atomically thin graphene layer by leveraging topological ...
World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock
Milestone towards first practical applications of this innovative accelerator technologyCredit: DESY, Science Communication Lab A team of researchers at DESY ...
Quest for quantum Internet gets a boost with new technique for making entanglement
Credit: Tomoyuki Horikiri, Yokohama National University Traditional ways of producing entanglements, necessary for the development of any "quantum internet" linking ...
OCT-based technique captures subtle details of photoreceptor function
New instrument paves the way to earlier detection and treatment of diseases that cause blindnessCredit: Mehdi Azimipour, UC Davis Eye ...
Low-dose real-time X-ray imaging with nontoxic double perovskite scintillators
Credit: Wenjuan Zhu, Wenbo Ma, Yirong Su, Zeng Chen, Xinya Chen, Yaoguang Ma, Lizhong Bai, Wenge Xiao, Tianyu Liu, Haiming ...
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids
Credit: by Jules Scholler, Kassandra Groux, Olivier Goureau, José-Alain Sahel, Mathias Fink, Sacha Reichman, Claude Boccara and Kate Grieve Current ...
The MOF-based multicolor single-mode microlaser
Credit: Huajun He, Yuanjing Cui, Hongjun Li, Kai Shao, Banglin Chen and Guodong Qian Since different tissues, cells or biochemicals ...
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by THz-induced Kerr effect
Credit: Hang Zhao, Yong Tan, Liangliang Zhang, Rui Zhang, Mostafa Shalaby, Cunlin Zhang, Yuejin Zhao, and Xi-Cheng Zhang Liquid water ...
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide lens for high resolution imaging
Credit: by Han Lin, Zai-Quan Xu, Guiyuan Cao, Yupeng Zhang, Jiadong Zhou, Ziyu Wang, Zhichen Wan, Zheng Liu, Kian Ping ...
Engineered capsids for efficient gene delivery to the eye
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 13, 2020--A rational design approach created novel variants of adeno-associated ...