‘Hot’ electrons in metallic nanostructures — non-thermal carriers or heating?
Credit: Yonatan Dubi & Yonatan Sivan What happens to a piece of metal when you shine light on it? This ...
Tag: Optics
New printer creates extremely realistic colorful holograms
Technology offers high-speed, high-quality printing that could be useful for architecture models, fine art, exhibits and other applicationsCredit: C Yves ...
Evading Heisenberg isn’t easy
Credit: I. Shomroni, EPFL. The limits of classical measurements of mechanical motion have been pushed beyond expectations in recent years, ...
A plethora of states in magic-angle graphene
Credit: ICFO Last year, graphene made another major splash in the headlines when scientists discovered that by simply rotating two ...
Researchers use 3D printing to make glass optical fiber preform
New approach greatly simplifies silica fiber fabrication, enabling new designs and applicationsCredit: John Canning, University of Technology in Sydney WASHINGTON ...
Using computational chemistry to produce cheaper infrared plastic lenses
The new material could bring consumers affordable access to consumer-grade infrared detectors in products such as autonomous cars and in-home ...
Study shows ability to detect light from UV to the IR optical regimes using spin currents
Credit: Joshua Walker A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have shown that the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) can ...
Structured light promises path to faster, more secure communications
Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum ...
NUS researchers use light from nanoparticles to intricately control biological processes
New nanoparticles can adjust the beating speed of heart cells by emitting different colours of light. Light from nanoparticle clusters ...
Let there be…a new light
Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apartCredit: Steven Roberts Light is the fastest way to ...
Soft double gyroids are unique, but imperfect, crystals
Rice materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymersCredit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - What appears ...
New research finding gives valleytronics a boost
UC Riverside-led team overcomes a stumbling block in this relatively new technologyCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An ...
Lithuanian scientists’ research may contribute to a better diagnosis of cancer
The method discovered by Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania researchers together with colleagues from other countries opens up an opportunity ...
JILA team demonstrates model system for distribution of more accurate time signals
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST JILA physicists and collaborators have demonstrated the first next-generation "time scale" -- a system that incorporates data ...
A cavity leads to a strong interaction between light and matter
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Researchers have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic ...
Porous polymer coatings dynamically control light and heat
New inexpensive, scalable design takes advantage of the optical switchability of porous polymers; could be used for heating, cooling, and ...
Schools of molecular ‘fish’ could improve display screens
Credit: Smalyukh lab Take a dive into what may be the world's smallest coral reef. Scientists at the University of ...
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
Researchers open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor made entirely of lightCredit: ...
Blanket of light may give better quantum computers
Researchers from DTU Physics describe in an article in Science, how -- by simple means -- they have created a ...
First demonstration of a 1 petabit per second network node
Gathering the latest advancements in optical fiber telecommunications technology towards practical petabit-class backbone networksCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications ...