The most complicated crystal structure ever produced in a computer simulation has been achieved by researchers at the Un…

As per today DELTA has facilitated a management buyout of the business area Optical Thin Film. The new owners behind Del…

The Universities of Bath, Bristol, Sheffield and Strathclyde and their industrial partners have been given funding to de…

In a breakthrough study scientists have revealed the coherence, or the visibility lifespan, of the spin of an electron i…

In Harvard’s high-tech cleanroom, applied physicists produce vivid optical effects—on paper

One is a metamaterial that absorbs 99.75 percent of infrared light—very useful for thermal imaging devices. Another is a…

The FREEDOM 100 spectrometers provide sensitivity and cost comparable with traditional cost efficient CCD-based spectrom…

Animals looking for food or light waves moving through turbid media – astonishing similarities have now been found between completely different phenomena.

Many important physical quantities depend on the mean free path - for instance the fraction of the light, which passes t…

Scientists from Montana and Germany develop simple new model that explains the brilliant deep hues of Yellowstone National Park’s most beautiful thermal springs

Researchers at Montana State University and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany have created a simple…

Researchers show that wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are the same thing, reducing two mysteries to one

Researchers show that wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are the same thing, reducing two mysteries to one

Graphene nanoislands shown to host record-high levels of nonlinear response when electrically charged.

Noble metal nanoparticles can help overcome this limitation on the nanoscale, as they enhance optical nonlinearities thr…

Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF and Philips Research have designed and fabricated a new type of nanoscale antenna.…

Pre-assembled and pre-engineered modules offer an easy solution for labs to automate either a single process or expand t…

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a way to emit and control quantum l…

In the same way as we now connect computers in networks through optical signals, it could also be possible to connect fu…

The method uses the quantum-physical fact that light particles can be in multiple locations at the

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres…

Researchers have found that stacking materials that are only one atom thick can create semiconductor junctions that tr…

Researchers in Lebanon and France develop laser biospeckle method to help farmers harvest climacteric fruits -- like apples, bananas, pears and tomatoes -- at their precise peak in ripeness

Laser light interacts with any medium through different processes such as scattering, absorption, and reflection. Photon…

Rice University lab discovers simple way to make material for energy storage, electronics

Researchers at Rice University have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by bu…

The large circular detection surface is optimized for precise alignment of lasers with 4 elements, each offering