World’s first fiber-optic ultrasonic imaging probe for future nanoscale disease diagnostics
Credit: Dr Salvatore La Cavera Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed an ultrasonic imaging system, which can be ...
Tag: Optics
Silicon chip will drive next generation communications
A new design of ultra-small silicon chip called a multiplexer will effectively manage terahertz waves which are key to the ...
Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won’t keep you up all night
Credit: Jakoah Brgoch To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. ...
HKUST develops a novel raman spectroscopy platform to characterize IDPs in dilute solution
Credit: Vince St. Dollente Mesias, Jinqing Huang / The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology It is challenging to ...
Measuring the Moon’s nano dust is no small matter
Credit: Credit: E. Garboczi/NIST and A. Sharits/AFRL Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. ...
Material scientists find new angle toward better heat transfer
UCLA Researchers developed a new class of optical material that can beam thermal radiation to specific directions over a broad ...
2Exciting: Innovative training network for early career researcher education in 2D research
Credit: 2Exciting The trainees will study the fundamental physics of the light-matter interaction in two-dimensional semiconductor materials to develop innovative ...
Germany grants the Optics University Center and Campus at Leibniz University Hannover
German Science Council recommends an investment of 54.2 million Euro to build the research building OPTICUMCredit: HENN German companies have ...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are ...
Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas
Credit: by Wenqi Zhao, Xiaochaoran Tian, Zhening Fang, Shiyi Xiao, Meng Qiu, Qiong He, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li, Yuanbo Zhang, ...
Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse
Rice chemists show ions' staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful propertyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (April 22, 2021) ...
Uniquely sharp X-ray view
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking ...
Multimillion euro funding for the search for ‘new physics’
Prof. Dr. Piet O. Schmidt receives ERC Advanced Grant from the EU -- 2.5 million euros for a five-year projectCredit: ...
‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals
Credit: The University of Queensland The 'stickiness', or viscosity, of microscopic liquids can now be measured thousands of times faster ...
Transport phenomena at the nanoscale
Credit: Ella Maru Studio (https://scientific-illustrations.com) Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a ...
Intrinsic in-plane nodal chain and generalized quaternion charge protected nodal link in photonics
Credit: by Dongyang Wang, Biao Yang, Qinghua Guo, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lingbo Xia, Xiaoqiang Su, Wen-Jie Chen, Jiaguang Han, Shuang Zhang, ...
SMART breakthrough in materials discovery enables ‘twistronics’ for bulk systems
The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new ...
Vibrational microscopy goes super resolution
Credit: by Hanqing Xiong†, Naixin Qian†, Yupeng Miao, Zhilun Zhao, Chen Chen, Wei Min. It has been a long pursuit ...
Tiny chip-based device performs ultrafast modulation of X-rays
New optics-on-a-chip device paves way to capturing fast chemical, material and biological processesCredit: Jin Wang WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed ...
Boosting fiber optics communications with advanced quantum-enhanced receiver
Technology could avert capacity crunch by enhancing bandwidth while reducing energy consumptionCredit: Ivan Burenkov WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 -- Fiber ...