Quantum entanglement offers unprecedented precision for GPS, imaging and beyond
University of Arizona researchers are using quantum entanglement to detect radio frequencies with more sensitivity and accuracy than everCredit: University ...
Tag: Optics
New discovery settles long-standing debate about photovoltaic materials
Credit: US Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists have theorized that organometallic halide perovskites-- a class of light harvesting "wonder" ...
New photon-counting camera captures 3D images with record speed and resolution
Megapixel image sensor could bring significant improvements to augmented reality and LiDAR systems for autonomous vehiclesCredit: Arianna M. Charbon, Kazuhiro ...
Low-cost imaging system poised to provide automatic mosquito tracking
Better monitoring could bring faster and more targeted control of mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: Adam Goodwin, Johns Hopkins University WASHINGTON -- Mosquito-transmitted ...
Seeking sounds of superfluids
Probing quantum gases with sound wavesCredit: FLEET Sound waves reveal the unique properties of an ultracold quantum gas, a model ...
Graphene heterostructures with black phosphorus, arsenic enable new infrared detectors
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office MIPT scientists and their colleagues from Japan and the U.S. have calculated the parameters of ...
How do mantis shrimp find their way home?
The first-ever research on mantis shrimp navigation, by UMBC's Rickesh Patel, finds they use the sun, polarized light patterns, and ...
Broad spectrum
Novel hybrid material proves an efficient photodetectorCredit: HZDR / Juniks Digital cameras as well as many other electronic devices need ...
X-ray vision through the water window
The development of the first high-repetition-rate laser source that produces coherent soft x-rays spanning the entire 'water window' heralds the ...
KIST develops foldable and washable luminescent film
Near-infrared sensors and displays developed based on the maximized efficiency of optical wavelength conversion. A flexible, transparent, and washable film, ...
X-rays reveal in situ crystal growth of lead-free perovskite solar panel materials
Credit: G. Portale, University of Groningen Lead-based perovskites are very promising materials for the production of solar panels. They efficiently ...
New laser technique will allow more powerful — and smaller — particle accelerators
Credit: (H. Palmer and K. Palmisano) By observing electrons that have been accelerated to extremely high energies, scientists are able ...
Researchers solve structure of ‘inverted’ rhodopsin
Credit: K. Kovalev et. al. Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working with Spanish, French, and German ...
Does relativity lie at the source of quantum exoticism?
Credit: Source: FUW Since its beginnings, quantum mechanics hasn't ceased to amaze us with its peculiarity, so difficult to understand. ...
World record transmission of 172 Tb/s over 2040km distance coupled-3-core multi-core fiber
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) - A world record for high-capacity, long-haul transmission in standard diameter ...
New materials: Brilliant white without pigments
Nanostructured polymer foil appears white without environmentally hazardous titanium dioxide -- Beetle's chitin scales used as a modelCredit: Julia Syurik, ...
Physicist from Hannover develops new photon source for tap-proof communication
New method for generating quantum-entangled photons in a spectral range of light previously inaccessible developedCredit: Michael Kues/PQT An international team ...
A funnel of light
Credit: University Rostock / Alexander Szameit Professor Ronny Thomale holds a chair for theoretical condensed matter physics, the TP1, at ...
Enhanced 1.54 μm PL and EL on a perfluorinated Er3+ complex sensitized by an Ir3+ complex
Credit: by Hong-Fei Li, Xiao-Qi Liu, Chen Lyu, Jelena Gorbaciova, Li-Li Wen, Guo-Gang Shan, Peter. B. Wyatt, Huan-Qing Ye and ...
Shifting dimensions: Exciting excitons in phosphorene
Scientists probe how excited states of matter behave in phosphorene -- a two-dimensional material with unusual propertiesCredit: OIST Since its ...