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Surface Phonon-Polaritons can Help Nanostructured Devices Keep Their Cool

The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices is causing cooling of the device structures to become increasingly challenging.

13 Oct 2020

Researchers Engineer Optical Fibers with 2D Materials

At the latest since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2D materials - nanosheets with atomic thickness - have been a hot topic in science.

8 Oct 2020

New Method to Squeeze Light and Peer Inside Memory Devices

Scientists have designed a novel technique to “squeeze” visible light in an effort to peer inside small memory devices.

7 Oct 2020

Scientists Discover Why Disordered Light-Harvesting Nanotubes Produce Ordered Outcomes

Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems.

30 Sep 2020

New Thin and Ultra-Fast Photodetector can See the Full Spectrum of Light

Scientists have created the world’s first photodetector that can visualize all shades of light, in a prototype device that profoundly shrinks one of the most underlying elements of contemporary technology.

23 Sep 2020

Using Brain-Like Electronic Devices to Produce Vivid Colors

Structural coloration is promised to be the display technology of the future as there is no fading - it does not use dyes - and enables low-power displays without strong external light source.

9 Sep 2020

Sensors of World’s Largest Digital Camera Snap First 3,200-megapixel Images at Slac

Crews at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken the first 3,200-megapixel digital photos – the largest ever taken in a single shot – with an extraordinary array of imaging sensors that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

9 Sep 2020

Glass Slide Nanopillars Control Both Color and Intensity of Light

By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and their collaborators have reproduced with astonishing fidelity the luminous hues and subtle shadings of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece.

7 Sep 2020

New Metalens Helps Produce High-Resolution Images with Wide Field of View

At the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC-USP), Brazil, scientists have designed a lens that is a thousand times thinner when compared to a strand of human hair.

25 Aug 2020

High-Q Nanoresonators Could Lead to Novel Ways of Manipulating and Using Light

Light is notoriously fast. Its speed is crucial for rapid information exchange, but as light zips through materials, its chances of interacting and exciting atoms and molecules can become very small.

21 Aug 2020

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