NanoOptics News

Energetiq Technology Unveils Advanced Light Source for Actinic Inspection of EUV Masks

Energetiq Technology, a company that develops and produces specialized ultrahigh-brightness light sources for sophisticated technology applications, has announced the completion of its product introduction program for a new 20 W EUV light source called the EQ-10HP.

Femtosecond-Pulsed Plasmonic Nanotweezers Help Probe Biological Structures

Employing ultra-low input power densities, a research group from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has shown the possibility of using low-power ‘optical nanotweezers’ for trapping, manipulating and analyzing nanoparticles, including delegate biological samples.

Employing ultra-low input power densities, a research group from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has shown the possibility of using low-power ‘optical nanotweezers’ for trapping, manipulating and analyzing nanoparticles, including delegate biological samples.

Nanophotonics and Near-Field Optics Experts Meet in San Sebastián for NFO12

The "Near-field Optics, Nanophotonics and Related Techniques NFO12" International congress, organized by the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and CIC nanoGUNE, gathers 400 scientists and researchers at the Palacio Kursaal in San Sebastián between today and the 7 September who will debate on the latest advances in the fields of near optics and nanophotonics.

Plasmonic Electrochemical Current Imaging for Examining Electrocatalytic Activity of Nanoparticles

A Biodesign Institute researcher at the Arizona State University, Nongjian Tao has discovered a novel method of measuring the catalytical reactions of single nanoparticles. Effective nanoparticle catalysts are required to carry out many vital functions.

Researchers Break Light Resolution Limit at Nanoscale

Scientists from King's College London together with AMOLF and ICFO have successfully mapped the interaction of light with complex photonic materials by breaking the light resolution limit at the nanoscale. This was done by employing a new technique that integrates optical detection and electronic excitation.

Photonic-Plasmonic Microcavity Can Detect Proteins at Unprecedentedly Low Concentrations

Measuring proteins in real-time down to fM solution concentration
levels, corresponding to only a few thousand of protein molecules, has
been demonstrated for the first time using a hybrid photonic-plasmonic
Whispering Gallery Mode biosensor. Its unprecedented sensitivity is due
to optical trapping of proteins at highly sensitive plasmonic hotspots.

New Book Sheds Light on Nanostructured and Subwavelength Optical Waveguides

Research and Markets has added a new book, titled ‘Nanostructured and Subwavelength Waveguides. Fundamentals and Applications’ from John Wiley and Sons, to its list of offering.

New Technique to Optically Detect Single Molecules

An international research team led by KU Leuven researcher Ventsislav Valev has developed a new method for controlling light at the nanoscale level to achieve optical detection of single molecules.

Scientists Create Optically Switchable Chiral Terahertz Metamolecules

A team of scientists from various research facilities including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a metamolecule whose chirality can be switched optically at the speed of light.