Physicists at ANU have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment. Lead re…

Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have measured the twisting force, or tor…

Invitation to an experts' meeting which will be held by the Nanotechnology Competence Center Kompetenzzentrum Ultrapräzise Oberflächenbearbeitung (CC UPOB) in March 2017

Aspheres are complex optical surfaces which it is extremely demanding to measure accurately. Despite increasingly improv…

A recently awarded patent describes materials enabling significant increase and control of key optical constants: the re…

An ICFO study published in Nature Materials demonstrates how graphene can be employed simultaneously as both a plasmonic medium and detector

The results of this paper open a new pathway to graphene ´plasmo-electronics´, which would allow to perform mid-infrared…

Ward and his team have produced optical transceivers that can interface readily with existing digital or RF EW equipment…

Acoustic resonator device paves the way for better communication

UNSW has struck a $70 million deal to create a consortium to develop and commercialise technology that could lead to the world’s first quantum computer in silicon.

The four-way agreement between UNSW, the researchers, business and the federal government will pave the way for the deve…

Ideally suited for application directly to optics on spot blocks, they are capable of producing surface finishes to 10-5…

Research led by North Carolina State University sheds new light on the ways in which protons and neutrons can bind and e…

They created it on a silicon wafer bearing the official logo of the Canada 150 celebrations using an electron beam litho…

Breaking PT-symmetries for the future of optical technologies

Devices based on light, rather than electrons, could revolutionize the speed and security of our future computers. Howev…

Individual photons of light now can be detected far more efficiently using a device patented (link is external) by a tea…

Observations of atomic interactions could help pave way to room-temperature superconductors.

Physicists at MIT have now cooled a gas of potassium atoms to several nanokelvins — just a hair above absolute zero — an…

Researchers have levitated a tiny nanodiamond particle with a laser in a vacuum chamber, using the technique for the fir…

A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.

The results are the first experimental confirmation of coherence theory at or below the wavelength of light

Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional

A targeted way to manipulate beams of protons accelerated using ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses has been demonstrated by a team of researchers led at the University of Strathclyde.

By using the diffraction of intense laser light as it passes through a

UC Santa Cruz engineers use flexible silicone material to build an integrated optofluidic platform for biological sample processing and optical analysis

The flexibility of PDMS allows for novel ways of controlling both light and fluids on the chip. Using multilayer soft li…

Quantized magneto-optical effect observed in topological insulator

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have demonstrated that when a topological insu…