Study reveals how age affects perception of white LED light
Designs that consider color perception differences could improve LED lightingCredit: Soraa Inc., Freemont, Calif., USA WASHINGTON -- Although LEDs are ...
Tag: Optics
Ultrafast particle interactions could help make quantum information devices feasible
Research presents the detection of energy transfer from excited electrons to the crystal lattice on the femtosecond timescale. Knowledge could ...
Harnessing plasmonics for precision agriculture worldwide
A Moore Inventor Fellowship is supporting a Duke engineer in her quest to develop a small, inexpensive hyperspectral cameraCredit: Jon ...
Oscillation assisted 3D printing renders ultrafast fabrication of microlens array
Credit: SUTD & SUSTech With increasing demand for miniaturization of optoelectronics, microlens array has attracted significant attention and become an ...
Overlap allows nanoparticles to enhance light-based detection
Rice University scientists discover how plasmons amplify electroluminescenceCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 14, 2019) - Rice University scientists ...
Telescope technology used to take first accurate images of glaucoma-related eye structure
Indiana University optometry researchers took the first undistorted images of the eye's trabecular meshwork using methods originally developed to stop ...
Electrochemistry to benefit photonics: Nanotubes can control laser pulses
Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for ...
AI-based cytometer detects rare cells in blood using magnetic modulation and deep learning
Credit: Ozcan Research Lab, UCLA Detection of rare cells in blood and other bodily fluids has numerous important applications including ...
Lithuanian researchers developed new technology for precision grinding
By experimenting with tungsten carbide a team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, created an innovative technology ...
Forward or backward? New pathways for protons in water or methanol
Credit: MBI A collaborative ultrafast spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations study shows that proton vacancies in the form ...
Smaller than a coin
Credit: ETH Zurich / Pascal A. Halder Nowadays, a mobile phone can do almost anything: take photos or video, send ...
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light and lose less to heat
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, 'hot' electrons, avoiding wasteful heat lossCredit: ...
New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be ‘reprinted’
Scientists engineer on-demand high resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulationCredit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (October 7, ...
Salk scientists find way to quantify how well cutting-edge microscopy technique works
New approach helps researchers determine the resolution of cryo-EM, leading to better methods of imaging proteinsCredit: Salk Institute In 2017, ...
Optical imager poised to improve diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease
New non-invasive instrument images layers of the eye's protective tear film with speed and precisionCredit: AdOM Advanced Optical Methods Ltd. ...
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science
Kwiat group achieves most efficient single-photon production everCredit: Siv Schwink/University of Illinois Department of Physics Over the last two decades, ...
New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
Credit: Alan Zhan/University of Washington A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a ...
Getting an ‘eel’ for the water: The physics of undulatory human swimming
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba produce the most detailed motion capture of undulatory swimming and the resulting 3D ...
Tracking the HI virus
Researchers make visible, how AIDS pathogens multiply in the bodyCredit: (Image: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU) (Jena, Germany) In order to treat diseases ...
Tunable optical chip paves way for new quantum devices
Researchers demonstrate first fully integrated silicon carbide optical switch that can be thermally tuned for different functionsCredit: Ali Adibi, Georgia ...