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Top SPIE Optics Award Goes to RMIT Physicist

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has announced Min Gu as the 2019 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics, which is named in honor of the Nobel-winning inventor of holography, Dennis Gabor. Professor Gu i...

Jan 9, 2019

Nanocrystals get better when they double up with MOFs

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers develop design rules for self-assembling 2D nanocrystal/metal-organic framework-based materials for energy storage and catalysis applications.

Jan 9, 2019

Ultra-sensitive sensor with gold nanoparticle array

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Physicists have developed a new type of sensor platform using a gold nanoparticle array, that's 100 times more sensitive than current similar sensors.

Jan 9, 2019

Ultra-sensitive sensor with gold nanoparticle array

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Scientists from the University of Bath (UK) and Northwestern University (USA) have developed a new type of sensor platform using a gold nanoparticle array, which is 100 times more sensitive than current similar sensors.

Jan 9, 2019

Ultra-sensitive sensor with gold nanoparticle array

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists have developed a new type of sensor platform using a gold nanoparticle array, which is 100 times more sensitive than current similar sensors.

Jan 9, 2019

Holographic color printing for optical security

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have invented a new type of anti-counterfeiting technology called holographic colour prints for securing important documents such as identity cards, passports and banknotes....

Jan 9, 2019

Powerful X-ray beams unlock secrets of nanoscale crystal formation

chemeurope.com   -   Scientific News Websites

High-energy X-ray beams and a clever experimental setup allowed researchers to watch a high-pressure, high-temperature chemical reaction to determine for the first time what controls formation of two different nanoscale crystalline structures in ...

Jan 9, 2019

Artificial intelligence detects the presence of viruses

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Many biosensing applications rely on characterization of specific analytes such as proteins, viruses and bacteria, among many other targets, which can be accomplished by using micro- or nano-scale particles. In such biosensors, these particles are...

Jan 9, 2019

Artificial bug eyes

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Single lens eyes, like those in humans and many other animals, can create sharp images, but the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans have an edge when it comes to peripheral vision, light sensitivity and motion detection. That's why scien...

Jan 9, 2019

Light Is Dynamically Controlled in a Programmable Electro-Optic System

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

An integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency in an integrated circuit is the newest development from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). According to the re...

Jan 9, 2019

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