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New Laser-Based Method to Create Customizable Nanocarbons

Fabrication of flexible and wearable electronics often requires integrating various types of advanced carbon nanomaterials - such as graphene, nanotubes, and nanoporous carbon - because of their remarkable electrical, thermal, and chemical properties.

16 Jun 2020

Space Ready Optics for Satellite Data Relay Systems

Resolve Optics is a leading OEM designer and supplier of high performance optical systems for satellite data relay systems.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 16 Jun 2020

Researchers Develop New Technique for Creating a Laser Supercontinuum

Researchers have created what is called a “supercontinuum”—an extensive range of colors—from a narrow laser bundle that is attractive. For instance, in a self-driving car, a supercontinuum enables object recognition with the help of a LIDAR system.

15 Jun 2020

New Inkjet-Printed LEDs Made of Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductor Material

For the first time, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have successfully used a hybrid perovskite semiconductor material to produce light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with the help of inkjet printing.

15 Jun 2020

Using Optical Fields to Modify Electronic Properties of Solid

Research coauthored by team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy reveals that optical fields have the ability to modify electronic properties of a solid.

15 Jun 2020

New Metasurface-Based Camera Lenses Could be Used in Future Optical Technology

Camera lenses could be considerably less resource-intensive to manufacture and thousands of times thinner in the years to come.

12 Jun 2020

New QCL Technology Helps Achieve Record-High Power Output for Terahertz Lasers

Terahertz lasers may soon experience their moment of glory. These lasers produce radiation that sits somewhere between infrared light and microwaves along the electromagnetic spectrum.

12 Jun 2020

New Twistronics-Based Method Could Advance Light-Driven Technologies

Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying 'twistronics' concepts (the science of layering and twisting 2D materials to control their electrical properties) to manipulate the flow of light in extreme ways.

12 Jun 2020

New Non-Invasive Matrix Imaging Method Avoids Aberrations

In conventional ultrasounds, variations in soft tissue structure distort ultrasound wavefronts. They blur the image and can hence prove detrimental to medical diagnosis.

12 Jun 2020

Study Develops Smallest-Ever Optical Cavity for Infrared Light

Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites, unthinkable a couple decades ago.

12 Jun 2020

WITec Begins Expansion of its Headquarters Facility

WITec GmbH, the technology leader in correlative Raman microscopy, is expanding its headquarters building in Ulm.

From WITec GmbH 12 Jun 2020

New System for High-Density EEG Imaging of Brain Activity

The main aim of brain research is to understand the source and network of signals as the brain functions. At present, engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can be used for high-density electroencephalography (EEG) imaging of the origin and route of normal and abnormal brain signals.

11 Jun 2020