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Researchers Examine Energy Transport via Artificial Light-Harvesting Complex

Researchers from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Würzburg (Germany) have used advanced spectroscopy together with a microfluidic system to examine a simple biomimetic light-harvesting system.

11 Oct 2019

Atomic-Resolution Chemical Map to Characterize Properties of High-Entropy Alloys

High-entropy alloys, produced from almost equal parts of a number of primary metals, might exhibit immense potential for developing materials with excellent mechanical properties.

11 Oct 2019

How Football Molecules Explode in X-Ray Laser Beams

An international team of scientists has observed, in real time, the way in which football molecules formed of carbon atoms explode in an X-ray laser beam.

24 Sep 2019

New Preparation Process for Growing Tm,Ho:Lu2O3 Crystal

For many decades, 2-μm lasers based on Tm3+-Ho3+ co-doped host media have garnered a great deal of attention in free-space optical communication, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), laser microsurgery, atmospheric sensors, and free-space optical communication.

23 Sep 2019

Researchers Create Tunable, Nanoscale, Incandescent Light Source

An incandescent lightbulb created in an engineering laboratory at Rice University may be viewed as the smallest in the world with the potential of advances in photonics, sensing, and maybe computing platforms beyond the boundaries of silicon.

20 Sep 2019

Optical Vacuum Cleaner can Trap Nanoparticles from the Environment

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with Russian and international colleagues created the concept for building an “optical vacuum cleaner.”

11 Sep 2019

Asymmetric Dielectric Environment Favored by Narrow Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances

Plasmonic nanostructures have been extensively used for improving light-matter interactions because of the strong local field enhancement in deep subwavelength volumes.

5 Sep 2019

Engineers Develop World’s Thinnest Optical Resonator for Visible Light

A waveguide with a thickness of three layers of atoms—which is the world’s thinnest optical device—has been developed by engineers from the University of California San Diego.

13 Aug 2019

Researchers Manipulate Soliton Photonic Waves on a Silicon Chip

A tsunami is capable of holding its wave shape over vast distances across the ocean, preserving its “information” and power far from its origin.

4 Jul 2019

2D Perovskite Could Pave Way for Novel Light-Emitting and Other Devices

Three years ago, scientists gained attention when they reported that a two-dimensional (2D) perovskite – a material with a distinct crystal structure – made up of lead, cesium, and bromine produced an intense green light.

25 Jun 2019

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