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CCNY researchers take snap shots of wandering electrons in diamonds

The research so far has focused on using photons emitted by the NV centers to create this interaction under a special lo…

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SLAC's High-speed 'Electron Camera' Films Atomic Nuclei in Vibrating Molecules

Method Gives Scientists New Ways to Study Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature's Light Dependent Processes

Researchers used the UED instrument’s electron beam to look at iodine molecules at different points in time after the la…

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Light manipulated with large artificial atom

Physicists have manipulated light with large artificial atoms, so-called quantum dots. Before, this has only been done s…

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Colors from darkness: Researchers develop alternative approach to quantum computing

Microwaves created at near absolute zero temperature provide uniquely correlated and controllable states.

Researchers at Aalto University have demonstrated the suitability of microwave signals in the coding of information for…

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Columbia Engineering Team Discovers New Optical Material that Offers Unprecedented Control of Light and Thermal Radiation

Samarium nickelate shows promise for active photonic devices – the material could potentially transform optoelectronic technologies, including smart windows, infrared camouflage, and optical communications

A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-tra…

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Invisibility Cloak With Photonic Crystals

Photonic crystals that Semouchkina and her team employ for the cloak medium are able to provide superluminal phase veloc…

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Poof! The Weird Case of the X-ray that Came Out Blank

A ‘Nonlinear’ Effect that Seemingly Turns Materials Transparent is Seen for the First Time in X-rays at SLAC’s LCLS

The observation is a milestone in the quest to understand how light interacts with matter

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LEHIGH SCIENTISTS EXTEND THE REACH OF SINGLE CRYSTALS

Materials scientists and physicists at Lehigh have demonstrated a new method of making single crystals that could enable…

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Producing More Perfect Light with Specialty Lenses

Aspherical lenses improve precision and intensity of microscopy illumination

These aspherical lenses guarantee significantly higher light homogeneity and intensity because of the increased efficien…

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iView and Forth Dimension Displays to Collaborate on Structured Light Projectors (SLPs) for Chinese 3D Automated In-line Optical Inspection (3D AOI) market

SLPs are a key component of 3D AOI machines

ForthDD’s SXGA-3DM is a fast switching, all digital, high performance reflective Spatial Light Modulator product. Design…

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Electrons at the speed limit

In their experiment, Keller and her collaborators exposed a tiny piece of diamond with a thickness of only 50 nanometres…

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New single-photon microwave source developed

The technology has great potential for applications in quantum computing and quantum information technology, as well as…

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Shaping Laser Beam into a Ring Profile

For All Transversale Modes with M² < 20

Laser beams with a ring-shaped profile are required in ophthalmology, laser welding, and the material ablation of thin f…

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NIST’s Compact Gyroscope May Turn Heads

The NIST gyro’s glass atom chamber is just 3.5 cubic centimeters in size. The entire experimental setup, including low-p…

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Silicon nanoparticles trained to juggle light

Research findings prove the capabilities of silicon nanoparticles for flexible data processing in optical communication systems

Research findings prove the capabilities of silicon nanoparticles for flexible data processing in optical communication…

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The importance of being a vector: a story of darkness in light waves

In the paper published on 23 August, the researchers demonstrate that the distribution of the optical vortices in random…

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'Artificial atom' created in graphene

Electrons reveal their quantum properties when they are confined to small spaces. Scientists from TU Wien (Vienna), Aachen and Manchester have created tiny quantum dots in Graphene.

The high symmetry of the graphene lattice allows for four different quantum states. This opens up new pathways for quant…

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New theory could lead to new generation of energy friendly optoelectronics

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have created a new theoretical framework which co…

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Research note: Finding patterns in ‘electron puddles’

Yale physicist Leonid Glazman has developed a quantitative theory to explain the effect of quantum and thermal fluctuati…

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Light and matter merge in quantum coupling

Rice University physicists probe photon-electron interactions in vacuum cavity experiments

Rice physicists are closing in on a way to create a new condensed matter state in which all the electrons in a material…

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