In the new paper, published in the July 20 edition of Optica, University of Rochester researchers show that a classical…

Plasmonic device has speed and efficiency to serve optical computers

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and cou…

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a photonic chip, in which a light source – a so-called quantum do…

The researchers first grew single, nanometer-thick layers of molybdenum diselenide crystals on substrates and then depos…

Stony Brook physicist and colleagues demonstrate “superdense teleportation” method works

The researchers developed entangled elementary particles – in this case photons, the smallest units of light – to transm…

UD team awarded $1 million Keck Foundation grant for novel research on light

They want to design a new kind of semiconductor nanostructure that will act like a ratchet. It will absorb two red photo…

Light that is polarized clockwise causes current to flow in one direction, while counter-clockwise polarized light makes…

Many cloaks are lossy because they are made with metal particles, which absorb light. The researchers report that one of…

Absorbers are completely transparent at non-operational frequencies.

The researchers at the Aalto University Department of Radio Science and Engineering have demonstrated the first realizat…

Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon

With an arsenic concentration of 83 percent the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0.15 electron volt…

Light becomes trapped as it orbits within tiny granules of a crystalline material that has increasingly intrigued physic…

The latest release, TracePro v7.6, includes the capability to create repetitive features on curved surfaces, new diffuse…

Particles of light can, in principle, carry and deliver an unlimited amount of information between two remote places. Th…

Tight collaboration with leading customers yields a state of the art standalone product for the most challenging 3D wafer fabrication processes

With its unique optical technology, combining high precision, superior accuracy and new channels of information, the Hel…

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets.

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object…

How molecular vibrations make photosynthesis efficient

The studied artificial light harvester is a supramolecule, consisting of hundreds of thousands of light absorbing molecu…

Researchers at EPFL and ICFO have developed a sensor made from graphene to detect molecules such as proteins and drugs.…

Imaging structure and response of atoms and molecules with powerful mid infrared electric fields in PRX

Time-resolved imaging of atoms and molecules is critical for understanding chemical reactions. To acquire such images, r…

Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface.

Researchers have developed a new technique that enables sensitive and specific detection of molecules at the electrode