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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

Researchers Use Light to Track Individual Molecules in Real Time

A research team at the Living Systems Institute of the University of Exeter has established a method for real-time monitoring of the properties and structure of individual molecules using light.

18 May 2020

New Method to Control Frequency of Confined Light at Nanoscale

An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, together with scientist from the Basque research centers CIC nanoGUNE, DIPC, Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU), and international collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Austrian Institute of Technology, Paris Materials Centre, and University of Tokyo has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of confined light at the nanoscale in the form of phonon polaritons.

11 May 2020

Lenses Increase Light Extraction from Spectroscopy Samples

Researchers have developed tiny lenses that increase extraction of light from semiconductor samples.

8 May 2020

Optical Gain from Excitonic Complexes Could Power Future Lasers, Amplifiers

In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and his peers explored the intricate balance of physics that governs how electrons, holes, excitons and trions coexist and mutually convert into each other to produce optical gain.

7 May 2020

An Optical 'Nanomixer' to Control the Process of Mixing Liquids

Every now and then, scientists need to control the process of mixing liquids in vessels so small that the thinnest needle or even a hair wouldn't fit in there.

4 May 2020

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