News tagged with evanescent waves

Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Coke cans focus sound waves beyond the diffraction limit

(PhysOrg.com) -- When trying to focus sound waves into as small an area as possible, scientists run into a fundamental limit called the diffraction limit. That is, when sound waves are focused into a region ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Researchers make first perovskite-based superlens for the infrared

Superlenses earned their superlative by being able to capture the "evanescent" light waves that blossom close to an illuminated surface and never travel far enough to be "seen" by a conventional lens. Superlenses ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New way to extract light from semiconductors could lead to ultra-high efficiency LEDs

(PhysOrg.com) -- By fabricating ridges coated with silicon dioxide (SiO2) on the surface of a semiconductor, scientists from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Novel Superlens Offers a Simplified Subwavelength Imaging Technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first demonstrations of subwavelength imaging just a few years ago, scientists have been making great improvements, developing a variety of new methods for realizing high-resolution imaging. Recently, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 1 weblog

Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- New "metamaterials" can overcome some of the limitations of microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers in the Nano-scale Science & Engineering Center have come up with ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast