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Researchers Create Brighter Flexible Electroluminescent Film

A research team headed by Dr. Byeongdae Choi at DGIST’s Intelligent Devices and Systems Research Group has created an electroluminescent film that is four times brighter than the present one.

7 Nov 2017

Metasurface Produces Strange New States of Light for Crucial Research and Applications

Over the last ten years, applied physicists have created nanostructured materials that can form totally new states of light displaying peculiar behavior, such as corkscrewing, bending in a spiral, and dividing like a fork.

3 Nov 2017

Scientists Equip Electronic Chips with Innovative Optical Functions

In electronic devices, the performance of a chip is limited by electron speed and by overheating produced by the electric current during intensive use. In order to overcome this problem, a many research projects try to combine both optical and electronic components on one chip or to generate all-optical chips.

26 Oct 2017

Researchers Develop Printing-Based Technique to Harness Light

A microscopic ‘pen’ that is able to write structures adequately small to trap and harness light using a commercially available printing method could be used for sensing, lasers, biotechnology, and investigating the interaction between light and matter.

24 Oct 2017

Monolayer TMDs Show Promise for Future Applications in Electronic, Optoelectronic Technologies

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has uncovered a direct link between sample quality and the degree of valley polarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

20 Oct 2017

New Technique to Control Light in a Photonic Circuit

Integrated photonic circuits, which rely on light rather than electrons to move information, promise to revolutionize communications, sensing and data processing. But controlling and moving light poses serious challenges.

20 Oct 2017

New Optical Switching System Paves Way for Next Generation Data-Center Networks

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.) has successfully demonstrated a world-record for switching capacity of 53.3 Tb/s for short-reach data-center networks.

9 Oct 2017

Scientists Make a Crucial Step Towards Unlocking the "Holy Grail" of Computing

A groundbreaking innovation in the development of photonic computer chips was brought about by a research team, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter. The photonic computer chips use light instead of electricity and they are capable of reproducing the way the brain’s synapses operate.

28 Sep 2017

Eoptolink Unveils Industry’s First 200G CWDM4 QSFP-DD Optical Module at CIOE 2017

EOPTOLINK Technology Inc., Ltd has announced the industry first 200G CWDM4 QSFP-DD optical module during CIOE 2017 and will do live demo in ECOC 2017. Eoptolink has been working closely with leading network and data-center solution providers and start sampling to customers.

22 Sep 2017

Light Waves Used to Align Main Mirror Segments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

A team of Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston made use of light waves to align the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror segments to each other, so they behave like a single, monolithic mirror in the cryogenic cold of the center’s iconic Chamber A.

21 Sep 2017