The ability to transmit and manipulate, with minimal loss, the smallest unit of light—the photon—plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as designs for quantum computers that would use light rather than ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 3, 2023
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A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential has faltered along the way, due to damaging processing ...
Nanophysics
Dec 21, 2022
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How does your phone know it's you when you use facial recognition to unlock it? An array of tiny lasers light up your face, and your phone uses the reflection to construct a 3D model—not unlike a topographical map of your ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 12, 2022
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An international research team, led by NIMS, including Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) and Aalto University in Finland, has succeeded in synthesizing a two-dimensional silicon-integrated covalent organic framework (COF) ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 9, 2022
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From human intestines to the bottom of the sea, microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in biotechnology. Most of these organisms, ...
Biochemistry
Nov 22, 2022
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Astronomy is driven by big questions, and they don't come much bigger than wondering how the first stars and galaxies began to form—eventually giving rise to our own existence.
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2022
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Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently developed a novel integration scheme for efficient coupling between III-V compound semiconductor devices and silicon components on silicon ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 18, 2022
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Rice farmers depend on phosphorous fertilizers to maximize their yields of this major staple food, which helps nourish more than half of the world's population. However, there is a finite supply of the nutrient available ...
Ecology
Nov 16, 2022
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In metasurfaces, surface lattice resonances (SLRs) and bound state in the continuum (BIC) are two convenient approaches for achieving high quality factors (Q-factors).
Nanophysics
Nov 14, 2022
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TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in making a new type of material usable for chip technology. This enables faster, more efficient computers and new types of quantum devices.
Nanophysics
Nov 8, 2022
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