The breadth of possible applications in photonics makes Jeremy Staffa excited to witness what he believes could be “one of the most influential fields of the next decade.” He is a doctoral student at the Institute of Optics at the University of Ro...
Nov 4, 2020
Fiber optics built into a chip can deliver all the laser light needed to control ions for quantum computing and sensing.
Nov 4, 2020
Novel technique yields a carbon nanotube forest of record length, potentially revolutionizing the future of many industries.
Nov 4, 2020
The right indoor lighting can help set the mood, from a soft romantic glow to bright, stimulating colors. But some materials used for lighting, such as plastics, are not eco-friendly. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have developed a bio-bas...
Nov 4, 2020
Today, a multitude of industries, including optics, electronics, water purification, and drug delivery, innovate at an unprecedented scale with nanometer-wide rolls of honeycomb-shaped graphite sheets called carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Features such ...
Nov 4, 2020
A team of researchers led by Osaka University and National Taiwan University created a system of nanoscale silicon resonators that can act as logic gates for light pulses. This work may lead to the next generation of silicon-based computer process...
Nov 4, 2020
Carbon nanotube (CNT) forests are a solution to scaling up the production of CNTs, which are becoming a staple in many industries. However, even the best catalyst used to grow these forests deteriorates quickly, capping possible forest length at ~...
Nov 4, 2020
A team of physicists from Germany, Russia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom has found a new way to observe magnon-polarons by using a nanopatterned magnetic structure lit with short laser pulses. In their paper published in the journal Physical Revi...
Nov 4, 2020
Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons, mass-less measures of light that are key e...
Nov 4, 2020
The eyes of moths have a biological nanostructure that grants them anti-reflective properties. Though researchers have managed to
Nov 4, 2020
