Researchers report on the smallest cavities ever realized for infrared light by using graphene and metallic cubes of nanometer sizes.
Jun 11, 2020
Miniaturization has enabled technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes and nano-satellites, all unthinkable a couple decades ago. Just imagine that in the course of 60 years, the transistor has shrunk from the size of your palm to...
Jun 11, 2020
NanoReg2 project publishes 17 questions for designers
Jun 11, 2020
Brilliantly colored chameleons, butterflies, opals and now some 3D-printed materials reflect color by using nanoscale structures called photonic crystals.
Jun 11, 2020
NDSU researchers recently developed a new method of creating quantum dots made of silicon. Quantum dots, or nanocrystals, are tiny nanometer-scale pieces of semiconductor that emit light when their electrons are exposed to UV light. The most commo...
Jun 11, 2020
Brilliantly colored chameleons, butterflies, opals – and now some 3D-printed materials – reflect color by using nanoscale structures called photonic crystals. A new study that... The post Fast, Colorful 3D Printing by Mimicking Chameleons at the ...
Jun 11, 2020
For more than 200 years, we have been using X-rays to look inside matter, and progressing to ever smaller structures -from crystals to nanoparticles. Now, physicists have achieved a qualitative leap forward: using a new experimental technique, the...
Jun 11, 2020
A research team has employed ''twistronics'' concepts (the science of layering and twisting two-dimensional materials to control their electrical properties) to manipulate the flow of light in extreme ways. The findings hold th...
Jun 11, 2020
The researchers used scanning tunneling microscopy to observe what happens when they add additional electrons to magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. They observed a cascade of transitions in the electronic properties, patterns that could help un...
Jun 11, 2020
In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers now present a new technology for making the artificial materials known as 'metasurfaces', which consis...
Jun 11, 2020
