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Nanomaterials Oct 20, 2021

Twisted-angle dependent exciton in heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides

The type-II band structures in vertically stacked transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) heterobilayers facilitate the formation of interlayer excitons. The twist-angle and the mismatch in the lattice constants of the monolayers ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 18, 2021

Tuning transparency and opacity

Making a dark human hair transparent, or even an opaque bar of silicon: this optical "sorcery" is possible by manipulating the incident light. This new phenomenon is called "mutual extinction and transparency." Until now ...

Nanophysics Oct 5, 2021

Can butterfly wings help detect COVID-19 faster?

An international team, led by Swinburne University of Technology and Australian National University (ANU), have made a breakthrough discovery that could potentially lead to faster, more accurate molecular or virus tests, ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 23, 2021

Physicists control the flow of electron pulses through a nanostructure channel

Particle accelerators are essential tools in research areas such as biology, materials science and particle physics. Researchers are always looking for more powerful ways of accelerating particles to improve existing equipment ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 20, 2021

The nanophotonics orchestra presents: Twisting to the light of nanoparticles

Physics researchers at the University of Bath in the UK discover a new physical effect relating to the interactions between light and twisted materials—an effect that is likely to have implications for emerging new nanotechnologies ...

Nanophysics Sep 13, 2021

First observation of high-harmonic generation in robust, refractory metals

The generation of high harmonics from metals opens a link between solid and plasma harmonics. High-harmonic generation (HHG) is the field of creating high-frequency photons from low-frequency lasers. HHG is the cornerstone ...

Nanomaterials Sep 13, 2021

New method designs nanomaterials with less than 10-nanometer precision

A new method designs nanomaterials with less than 10-nanometer precision. It could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient electronics.

Optics & Photonics Sep 7, 2021

Photoluminescence control by hyperbolic metamaterials and metasurfaces

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, researchers led by Professor Andrei V. Lavrinenko and Dr. Pavel N. Melentiev from the DTU Fotonik-Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 2, 2021

Generating entangled photons with nonlinear metasurfaces

Quantum nanophotonics is an active research field with emerging applications that range from quantum computing to imaging and telecommunications. This has motivated scientists and engineers to develop sources for entangled ...

General Physics Aug 27, 2021

Researchers develop novel analog processor for high performance computing

Analog photonic solutions offer unique opportunities to address complex computational tasks with unprecedented performance in terms of energy dissipation and speeds, overcoming current limitations of modern computing architectures ...

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