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"Optical Rectennas" Capture Excess Heat and Turn it Into Usable Electricity

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their environment--and turn it into usable electricity.

19 May 2021

High-Performance Laser Mirrors Detect Trace Amounts of Substances in Gas Mixtures

For the first time, physicists from the University of Vienna have successfully demonstrated high-performance laser mirrors in the sensing-relevant mid-infrared wavelength range.

19 May 2021

Nanophotonics-Based Technology can Innovate LiDAR Sensors in Various Aspects

The nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and nanoengineering.

18 May 2021

Intelligent Multi-Camera System for Quality Control of Vaccine Bottles

Combating the Covid-19 pandemic is at the top of the global agenda. Around the world, efforts are being made to supply the population with vaccine as quickly as possible.

From IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH 13 May 2021

High-Resolution Optical Data Reveals Fundamental Structure of Spacetime in Rotating

In relativistic spacetime, one of the most fundamental structural aspects is the description of how distances and time are modified by motion.

12 May 2021

Researchers Develop Integrated Chips that can Generate Light Particles on Demand

The promise of a quantum internet depends on the complexities of harnessing light to transmit quantum information over fiber optic networks.

11 May 2021

Novel Approach Uses Light to Read Out Superconducting Circuits

In the last few years, several technology companies including Google, Microsoft, and IBM, have massively invested in quantum computing systems based on microwave superconducting circuit platforms in an effort to scale them up from small research-oriented systems to commercialized computing platforms.

11 May 2021