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Revolutionary Imaging Technology Compresses Lamp Light into a Nanometer-Sized Spot

Scientists have developed new materials for next-generation electronics so tiny that they are not only indistinguishable when closely packed, but they also don't reflect enough light to show fine details, such as colors, with even the most powerful optical microscopes.

26 Nov 2021

Advanced Imaging Technology Could Transform Dynamic Optical Nanothermometry

A new imaging method, formulated by the teams of Professors Jinyang Liang and Fiorenzo Vetrone at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), can compute temperature in 2D, without contact, and within a snap.

10 Nov 2021

Twisted Bilayer Graphene can be Used to Guide and Control Light

When two layers of graphene are placed one on top of the other, and twisted among them by a very small angle, a "moiré pattern" is formed and the physical properties of the system have proven to change dramatically.

1 Nov 2021

Skyrmions can Open Up Infinite Possibilities for Next Generation of Informatics Revolution

Since 1890, topology in optics and photonics is known to be a hot topic where singularities in electromagnetic fields have been taken into account.

25 Oct 2021

Researchers Realize On-Chip Optical Levitation in a Vacuum with Ultrathin Metalens

Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to optically levitate nanoparticles in a vacuum.

22 Oct 2021

New Method Produces Lens for Focused Image or Spectrum

A group of scientists has set out to develop holographic lenses that provide visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum. The researchers took their inspiration from an idea for finding exoplanets with a huge space telescope.

22 Oct 2021

Chip-Based Optical Tweezers Levitate Nanoparticles in a Vacuum

Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to optically levitate nanoparticles in a vacuum.

21 Oct 2021

Rice Scientists Create Nanostructures of Silica for Electronic, Photonic Devices

Weaving intricate, microscopic patterns of crystal or glass is now possible thanks to engineers at Rice University.

15 Oct 2021

Discovery may Have Important Consequences When Using Anapole States in On-Chip Nanophotonics

Resonant on-chip photonics via high-refractive-index nanoparticles has opened up the possibility to shape the functional response of photonic integrated circuits with wavelength-sized building blocks.

13 Oct 2021

Bath Researchers Discover New Physical Effect Relating to the Interactions Between Light and Twisted Materials

Physics researchers at the University of Bath in the UK discover a new physical effect relating to the interactions between light and twisted materials – an effect that is likely to have implications for emerging new nanotechnologies in communications, nanorobotics and ultra-thin optical components.

20 Sep 2021

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