Chili-shaped device could reveal just how hot that pepper is
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02079 Some people love spicy food -- the hotter, the better. ...
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A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes
Nanophotonics researchers demonstrate ultrafast polarization switchingCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 19, 2020) - U.S. and Italian ...
High pressure is key for better optical fibers
Credit: Yongjian Yang, et al., npj Computational Materials, September 17, 2020 Optical fiber data transmission can be significantly improved by ...
Wearable circuits printed directly on human skin
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11479 Wearable electronics are getting smaller, more comfortable and increasingly ...
New discovery opens for breakthrough in laser technology
Aarhus University has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in semiconductor lasers -- ...
Well-formed disorder for versatile light technologies
Credit: ETH Zurich / Jolanda Mueller From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibres all the way to modern quantum ...
Multi-state data storage leaving binary behind
Stepping 'beyond binary' to store data in more than just 0s and 1sCredit: Pixabay: Akela999 Electronic data is being produced ...
Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first time
Transportable radio telescopes could provide global high-precision comparisons of the best atomic clocks.Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ...
Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
Credit: Matthew Yankowitz/University of Washington Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and ...
Are brain-computer interface spellers secure?
Credit: @Science China Press Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) record and decode brain signals to construct a communication pathway, which allows people ...
Scientists studied nanoparticles embedded in silver-ion-exchanged glasses
Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation.Credit: Peter ...
Microcomb-injected pulsed lasers as variable microwave gears
Credit: W. Wenle (EPFL) Low-noise microwave signals are of critical importance in numerous applications such as high-speed telecommunication and ultrafast ...
New system detects faint communications signals using the principles of quantum physics
Researchers have demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networksCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute ...
Rochester researchers document an optical fiber beyond compare
Credit: Arjun Iyer/Renninger lab/University of Rochester A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the "noise" interfering with the signals it ...