How efficient are solar power storage systems?
'Testbench' project improves quality of measurement results and facilitates comparisonCredit: Photo: Shutterstock/Victor Josan More and more photovoltaic systems are equipped ...
Tag: Optics
Metasurface opens world of polarization
Device may have far-reaching applications in polarization imaging, quantum optics, and moreCredit: (Image courtesy of Zhujun Shi/Harvard SEAS) Polarization, the ...
Precision spray coating could enable solar cells with better performance and stability
New approach offers practical way to make multilayer perovskite solar cellsCredit: Pongsakorn Kanjanaboos, Mahidol University WASHINGTON -- Although perovskites are ...
New laser system provides 3D reconstructions of living deep-sea animals and mucus filters
Credit: Image: © 2020 MBARI Living in an essentially zero-gravity environment, many deep-sea animals have evolved soft, gelatinous bodies and ...
Get excited by neural networks
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The ...
Aluminum oxide crystal tested as a UV radiation sensor
Doped with carbon and magnesium, the material becomes thermoluminescent in response to UV radiationCredit: Neilo Marcos Trindade and his team ...
Exotic nanotubes move in less-mysterious ways
Rice scientists, engineers show boron nitride's promise for composites, biomedical applicationsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 2, 2020) - ...
From dark to light in a flash: Smart film lets windows switch autonomously
Credit: KAIST Researchers have developed a new easy-to-use smart optical film technology that allows smart window devices to autonomously switch ...
Extraordinary modulation of light polarization with dark plasmons in magnetoplasmonic nanocavities
Credit: by Alberto López-Ortega, Mario Zapata-Herrera, Nicolò Maccaferri, Matteo Pancaldi, Mikel Garcia, Andrey Chuvilin, and Paolo Vavassori Nanophotonics uses light ...
SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing honors best papers
Awards recognize interdisciplinary applications, theoretical innovation, and photo-optical instrumentation and designAwards recognize interdisciplinary applications, theoretical innovation, and photo-optical instrumentation and ...
The cascade to criticality
Combined theoretical and experimental work unveils a novel mechanism through which criticality emerges in quasiperiodic structures.Credit: Aalto University, Jose Lado ...
Avalanche photodiode from UVA and UT-Austin breaks performance record for LiDAR receivers
Team's fabrication process achieves long-wavelength sensitivity, ultra-low noise and design flexibilityCredit: Joe C. Campbell Charlottesville, Va. - Electrical and computer ...
New protocol for organic synthesis using organoboron compounds and visible-light
Credit: Kanazawa University Alkyl radicals are carbon radicals of normal chain and branched chain alkanes, available as reaction intermediates even ...
New type of coupled electronic-structural waves discovered in magnetite
Credit: Source: Ambra Garlaschelli and MIT An international team of scientists uncovered exotic quantum properties hidden in magnetite, the oldest ...
Ultrafast optical response and ablation mechanisms of molybdenum disulfide
Credit: by Changji Pan, Lan Jiang, Jingya Sun, Qingsong Wang, Feifei Wang, Kai Wang, Yongfeng Lu, Yeliang Wang, Liangti Qu ...
Controlling angular dispersions in optical metasurfaces
Credit: by Xiyue Zhang, Qi Li, Feifei Liu, Meng Qiu, Shulin Sun, Qiong He, Lei Zhou Despite of impressive successes ...
A nice day for a quantum walk
Researchers at Osaka University use their ability to precisely control the vibrations of coupled ions to demonstrate a "quantum random ...
High-speed femtosecond laser plasmonic lithography of graphene oxide film
Credit: by Tingting Zou, Bo Zhao, Wei Xin, Ye Wang, Bin Wang, Xin Zheng, Hongbo Xie, Zhiyu Zhang, Jianjun Yang, ...
Kirigami/origami: Unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D micro-/nanofabrication with ‘folding’
Credit: by Shanshan Chen, Jianfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Jiafang Li 3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build ...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Credit: by Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen Optical ...