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New Platform may Lead to the Development of Efficient Optical Computers

Research teams in nanophotonics are looking to create optical transistors, believed to be crucial components for optical computers.

10 Apr 2020

Light-Emitting Silicon that Redefines Computing

Scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have successfully developed a silicon-based alloy that can produce light.

9 Apr 2020

Structures Based on 2D-Materials Emit Customized Light in Any Color

Identification of novel, light-emitting semiconductor materials is important to develop an array of electronic devices.

19 Feb 2020

New Method to Realize Photon Up-Conversion Using Nontoxic Materials

A group of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside has discovered a new technique to create a long-proposed phenomenon—the energy transfer between organic, carbon-based molecules and silicon.

3 Dec 2019

New Approach to Dynamically Manipulate the Optical Response of Semiconductors

Physicists from France, Germany, and Switzerland have discovered that the optical response of semiconductors can be dynamically controlled by large-amplitude acoustic waves. These waves are launched by ultrashort laser p...

2 Dec 2019

New Method for Using Microcavities to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

Organic LED displays have become popular among a growing number of electronics manufacturers, for use in computers, televisions, and smartphones.

29 Nov 2019

New Storage Device Helps Read Stored Information Optically and Electrically

Researchers have developed a new storage technology that is based on a combination of an insulator and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED).

26 Nov 2019

Real-Time Molecular Imaging Using Photoluminescent MoS2 Pixel Arrays

M. F. Reynolds and co-workers from the Cornell University and the University of Chicago, USA, have recently discovered the transition metal di-chalcogenide (TMDs) based molecular pixel array, for real time detection of redox activity that occurs inside a molecule.

11 Nov 2019

Study Demonstrates New LEDs that Turn on at Much Lower Voltages

A new study has revealed that atomically thin semiconductors produce light at a lower voltage when they are integrated together in a LEGO style. This breakthrough discovery may result in low-energy consumption devices.

5 Aug 2019

Physicists Study Propagation of Light in 2D Molybdenum Diselenide

An international team of researchers has investigated how photons move in the plane of the thinnest semiconductor crystal in the world. It was found that the distribution of light polarization in space was similar to the three-colored rapana.

24 Jul 2019