Gaining a better understanding of plasma formation for extreme ultraviolet light

A study into the acceleration and deformation of microscopically small tin drops by an intense laser pulse resulted in t…

Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center have developed a method which is going to make it easier to create a…

Researchers at UTS have found some of the brightest quantum emitters ever recorded. They’re also tuneable over a large s…

Novel phototransistor device could result in faster, cheaper Internet

FSO uses visible or infrared light to wirelessly transmit data through open air as opposed to using cables, which have l…

Direct correlation between temperature dependent generation of spin currents and atomic composition of interfaces found

The spin Seebeck effect belongs to the category of spin-thermoelectric effects. Previous work of the physicists at Mainz…

Rice University scientists detect thermal boundary that hinders ultracold experiments

The researchers took measurements for various laser strengths and surface temperatures. For the nanowire on silicon or s…

The versatile Verifire product includes a continuously variable optical zoom that can be operated in horizontal or verti…

In computers of the future, information might be stored in the form of quantum bits. But how can a quantum bit be realised?

A research team from Germany, France and Switzerland has realised quantum bits, short qubits, in a new form. One day, th…

"Exceptional points" give rise to counter-intuitive physical effects. Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna) make use of these phenomena to create a novel kind of wave guide, which is now being presented in the journal “Nature”.

No matter whether it is acoustic waves, quantum matter waves or optical waves of a laser – all kinds of waves can be in…

Research team from TU-Wien Center for Micro- and Nanostructures have developed a new ‘cooler’ sensing instrument thereby increasing energy, efficiency and enhancing mobility for diagnostic testing

The type of instrument developed by Harrer and his colleagues is known as a quantum cascade detector, or QCD. A QCD is a…

UD researchers demonstrate prototype of low-cost device for energy-efficient windows, privacy panels

The transmittance of light through smart glass can be modulated, or controlled, when voltage, light or heat is applied,…

Researchers from Aston University and ITMO University have demonstrated a new method to fabricate optical microresonator…

Researchers at Rice University, in Europe and in Singapore discover band gaps in spider silk

New discoveries about spider silk could inspire novel materials to manipulate sound and heat in the same way semiconduct…

A team of physicists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University has predicted the existence…

Munich Physicists have developed a novel electron microscope that can visualize electromagnetic fields oscillating at frequencies of billions of cycles per second.

This instrument makes use of ultrashort pulses of laser light, each of which lasts for a few femtoseconds. These laser p…

A breakthrough into the full characterisation of quantum states has been published today as a prestigious Editors' Sugge…

With data rates of more than 2 gigabits per second, new approach in photodetection could simplify free-space optical communication and increase its scope of applications

Light-based wireless communication, also called free-space optical communications, offers a promising way to bring the i…

Yale University scientists have reached a milestone in their efforts to extend the durability and dependability of quant…

Researchers have demonstrated how to control the electron spin of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a v…

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a material with nano-size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object’s surface.

The underlying design approach has much wider applications, ranging from microwave to optics for the control of any kind…