NanoOptics News

RSS

Researchers Integrate Complex Optical System into Silicon Photonic Chip

Information technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. However, the growing demands of data centers have pushed electrical input-output systems to their physical limit, which has created a bottleneck.

18 Jun 2020

TEM Used to Measure I-V Curve of Graphene Nanoribbons

Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) that were suspended between two electrodes.

16 Jun 2020

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

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 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

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

New Plasmon Compression Method Could Help Create Optical Computer

In collaboration with Danish and Russian research teams, researchers at Tomsk Polytechnic University have experimentally confirmed a plasmonic nanojet effect that was predicted earlier in practice.

10 Jun 2020

New Optical Framework Could Help Visualize Nanometric Objects

New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical new tool to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering including semiconductor wafer inspection, nanoparticle sensing, material characterization, biosensing, virus counting, and microfluidic monitoring.

8 Jun 2020

New Deposition Method Offers Viable Pathway to Miniaturize Optical Devices

Smart phones, tablets and laptop displays, camera lenses, biosensing devices, integrated chips and solar photovoltaic cells are among the applications that could stand to benefit from an innovative method of nanocrystal assembly pioneered by Australian scientists.

4 Jun 2020

New Compact Semiconductor Laser Works in Visible Range at Room Temperature

An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced the development of the world's most compact semiconductor laser that works in the visible range at room temperature.

4 Jun 2020