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Photonics Research Breakthrough Opens Door for Improved Wireless Communication Systems

A team of researchers from the ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the University of Sydney’s Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology have managed to accomplish radio frequency signal control at sub-nanosecond time scales on a chip-scale optical device.

3 Apr 2017

New Roll-to-Roll Overmolding Technology for Creating Flexible Electronic Devices

Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have executed all manufacturing stages for a flexible in-molded LED foil -in roll-to-roll process for the first time.

29 Mar 2017

Mellanox Technologies Unveils New Line of 100 Gb/s Silicon Photonics Components

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today introduced a new line of 100Gb/s silicon photonics components to serve the growing demand of hyperscale Web 2.0 and cloud optical interconnects.

21 Mar 2017

Controlling Surface Micro- and Nanoscale Structures Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses

The surface of a material includes minute micro- and nanoscale structures that cannot be seen by the naked eye. However, these structures play a big role in governing the chemical, physical, and biomedical characteristics of the material.

15 Mar 2017

Newly Developed Femtosecond Light Pulses Could Pave Way for Lightwave Electronics

An international research team has created configurable and extremely short “femtosecond” light pulses which can enable the future computers to operate nearly 100,000 times faster than the present ones.

14 Mar 2017

Penn Engineers Demonstrate New Way to Develop Metamaterials, Providing Easier Fabrication

The field of metamaterials is a combination of electrical engineering, nanotechnology, physics and materials science. This field aims at producing structures with unique electromagnetic properties.

10 Mar 2017

Scientists Predict Existence of Transparent Composite Media with Unusual Optical Properties

Physicists from MIPT have predicted the existence of transparent composite media with unusual optical properties.

10 Mar 2017

Researchers Create Magnetic Tunnel Junction that Could be Switched by Light Pulse

University of Minnesota electrical and computer engineering researchers have created a magnetic tunnel junction that can be switched by a pulse of light lasting one trillionth of a second—a new record.

10 Mar 2017

Researchers Use Fluorescence Spectrum to Detect Oil Spill in Water

Researchers have developed a simple device that can detect an oil spill in water and then pinpoint the type of oil present on the surface.

7 Mar 2017

New Computational Theory Could Take Transmutation a Step Forward

Right from the Middle Ages, alchemists have sought to transmute elements. A well-known example of this is the long pursuit of turning lead into gold. In the modern era, transmutation has been achieved, however, on a minute scale with the aid of an enormous particle accelerator.

1 Mar 2017