Researchers design efficient low-cost system for producing power at night
Rooftop radiative cooling system could provide lighting power when solar energy is unavailableCredit: Lingling Fan and Wei Li, Stanford University ...
Tag: Optics
Glass blowing inspires new class of quantum sensors
Credit: Michael Haines Photography When Adelaide glass blower Karen Cunningham made art using diamond and glass she had no idea ...
Simpler and faster microscopy system enabling broader biomedical applications
Credit: by Yang Li, Terence T. W. Wong, Junhui Shi, Hsun-Chia Hsu, and Lihong V. Wang Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) ...
Technology can help speed soil recovery after oil spills
Credit: David Weindorf After an oil spill or leak, it's important to act fast. If the oil has gotten into ...
Oscillatory optics: Nonlinear, multi-mode waveguide for flip-flopping (yet stable) azimuthons
Nonlinear optics research demonstrates weakly nonlinear waveguides that guarantee the stable propagation of azimuthonsCredit: Zhang et al. The optical vortex ...
Giant photothermoelectric effect in silicon nanoribbon photodetectors
Credit: by Wei Dai, Weikang Liu, Jian Yang, Chao Xu, Alessandro Alabastri, Chang Liu, Peter Nordlander, Zhiqiang Guan, and Hongxing ...
Materials science researchers develop first electrically injected laser
The diode laser uses semiconducting material germanium tin and could improve micro-processing speed and efficiency at much lower costsCredit: University ...
Embryonic heart development: Unprecedented insight from 4D OCT
Innovative method offers a new way of studying developmental cardiac biomechanics, live in 4DCredit: Wang and Larina. How a valveless ...
Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce color and signal a treat for birds
Credit: Rox Middleton Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat ...
Researchers capture X-ray images with unprecedented speed and resolution
Ghost imaging approach could enable detailed movies of the heart with low-dose x-raysCredit: Sharon Shwartz, Bar-Ilan University WASHINGTON -- Researchers ...
Piotr Roztocki wins 2020 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for his innovative work
First Canadian to be recognized by the Marconi Society's Award in quantum photonicCredit: Piotr Roztocki The Institut National de la ...
Photodynamic therapy can combat secondary infections in COVID-19 patients
Researchers at the Optics and Photonics Research Center, supported by FAPESP, advocate the technique as an additional treatment for patients ...
University of Arizona awarded $26M to architect the quantum internet
Credit: Jacob Chinn/University of Arizona Alumni Association The University of Arizona will receive an initial, five-year, $26 million grant from ...
New study shows how infrared lasers destroy harmful protein aggregates in Alzheimer’s
The power of simulations combined with experiments reveals why protein agglomerations typical of neurodegenerative diseases dissociate with infrared laser irradiationCredit: ...
A photonic device comes to the aid of COVID-19 patients
Credit: H. Parc Taulà Few could have foreseen the considerable impact that SARS-CoV-2 has had so far and is still ...
Sharing a secret…the quantum way
Wits Researchers have demonstrated a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst many parties, setting a new record for ...
New method lets scientists peer deeper into ocean
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Researchers have advanced a new way to see into the ocean's depths, establishing an ...
TU Graz researchers synthesize nanoparticles tailored for special applications
Credit: © IEP - TU Graz Whether in innovative high-tech materials, more powerful computer chips, pharmaceuticals or in the field ...
Tailored meta-grid of nanoparticles boosting performance of light-emitting diodes
Credit: by Debabrata Sikdar, John B. Pendry, and Alexei A. Kornyshev Introducing the newly designed 'meta-grid' of nanoparticles into the ...
Tailored light inspired by nature
Researchers develop for the first time light fields using caustics that do not change during propagationCredit: WWU - Alessandro Zannotti ...