Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have directly entangled three photons in the most technologically us…

The idea that the laws of physics and its fundamental constants do not depend on local circumstances is called the equiv…

A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies.

Chips that use light, rather than electricity, to move data would consume much less power — and energy efficiency is a g…

When two sheets of graphene are stacked in a special way, it is possible to cool down the graphene with a laser instead of heating it up, University of Manchester researchers have shown.

Researchers have shown how laser light interacts with a special kind of graphene to cool it down. This would make it pos…

Chemists further discover that it’s oscillating from one quantum state to another

This could lead to a wide variety of important applications, including lightning-fast quantum computers and uncrackable…

New transistor achieves ‘colossal’ switchable resistance using quantum materials and physics developed in a fuel cell lab

Silicon has few serious competitors as the material of choice in the electronics industry. Yet transistors, the switchab…

Rice lab creates RGB color display technology with aluminum nanorods

The new full-color display technology uses aluminum nanoparticles to create the vivid red, blue and green hues found in

A group of researchers at Macquarie University has shown that circular dichroism – a differential absorption of the circ…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial at…

How would the appearance of a cloud change if one were to put some order into the position of water droplets

Research published in the journal Nature Communications uncovers a new method to detect Majorana particles, a key element for a next-generation quantum computing platform.

Quantum computing relies on the laws of quantum mechanics to process vast amounts of information and calculations simult…

Researchers have developed a light detector that could revolutionise chemical sensing and night vision technology.

Nanophase Technologies Corporation announced today the opening of a new polishing laboratory that will enable new produc…

Optical circuits use light instead of electricity, making them faster and more energy-efficient than electrical systems.…

Researchers have developed a fundamentally new quantum imaging technique with strikingly counterintuitive features. For…

Quantum control of molecules could lead to extremely fast computers

In the quantum world, making the simple atom behave is one thing, but making the more complex molecule behave is another…

In cooperation with Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs researcher from AMO realized the worldwide fastest Graphene based photodete…

A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that coul…

From applications in the solar market to the outdoor lighting market, all becomes possible with the new outdoor finishing for 3D printed optics from Luxexcel.

From applications in the solar market to the outdoor lighting market, all becomes possible with the new outdoor finishin…

Controllable photon-photon interactions to enable unique applications

Scientists have known for over half a century that light fields can interact inside nonlinear optical media, but the non…