Search results for electro-optic

Bio & Medicine Jul 23, 2019

New multi-material 3-D nanoprinting strategy could revolutionize optics, photonics and biomedicine

Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new multi-material 3-D nanoprinting technique that was featured on the inside front cover of the July 21 issue of Lab on a Chip.

Analytical Chemistry Jul 22, 2019

Researchers develop new chip for superior forensic blood residue detection

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a new chip device that offers superior identification of miniscule blood residues for forensic applications.

Environment Jul 15, 2019

Reversible electro-optical detector for environmental sensing of pollutants

Increasing emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their resulting impact on air and water quality has become one of the major environmental concerns of our age, especially in industrialized societies. Some VOCs ...

General Physics Jul 10, 2019

Measuring light and vacuum fluctuations from a time flow perspective

Some of the greatest unanswered questions about the nature of the universe are related to light, the vacuum (i.e. space where neither matter nor radiation exists), and their relationship with time. In the past, physicists ...

Materials Science Jun 14, 2019

New record: 3-D-printed optical-electronic integration

Optoelectronic integration offers a promising strategy to simultaneously obtain the merits of electrons and photons when they serve as information carriers, including high-density communication and high-speed information ...

General Physics Jun 14, 2019

Discovery of light-induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanate

Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of a material can be modified, such as its ability to conduct electricity ...

Materials Science Jun 5, 2019

Specific ion effects directed noble metal aerogels

Noble metal foams (NMFs) are a new class of functional materials that contain both noble metals and monolithic porous materials for impressive multi prospects in materials science and multidisciplinary fields. In a recent ...

Optics & Photonics May 29, 2019

On-demand, photonic entanglement synthesizer

Quantum information protocols are based on a variety of entanglement modes such as Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR), Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) and other cluster states. For on-demand preparation, these states can be ...

Optics & Photonics May 6, 2019

New all-fiber device simplifies free-space based quantum key distribution

Researchers have developed a simple and stable device to generate the quantum states necessary for quantum key distribution. The device could make it more practical to develop a global data network that uses this very secure ...

Bio & Medicine May 1, 2019

Screening for rare but important disease 'biomarkers' gets an accuracy boost

Researchers have created a system that can detect and quantify small and rare biological molecules that are important for detecting disease early.

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