A device resembling a plastic honeycomb yet infinitely smaller than a bee's stinger can steer light beams around tighter curves than ever before possible, while keeping the integrity and intensity of the beam intact.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 19, 2015
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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices—nanometer-sized carbon structures—that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.
Nanomaterials
Apr 13, 2020
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(Phys.org) —What began as research into a method to strengthen metals has led to the discovery of a new technique that uses a pulsing laser to create synthetic nanodiamond films and patterns from graphite, with potential ...
Nanophysics
Nov 5, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Several groups have been using direct laser writing since the end of the 1990s," Michael Thiel tells PhysOrg.com. Thiel is a scientist has been working at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. ...
Electrically conductive films that are optically transparent have a central role in a wide range of electronics applications, from touch screens and video displays to photovoltaics. These conductors function as invisible ...
Materials Science
Feb 12, 2018
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Peripheral photoinhibition (PPI) direct laser writing (DLW) is a lithography technique used to fabricate intricate 3D nanostructures that are widely employed in photonics and electronics. PPI-DLW uses two beams, one to excite ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 19, 2022
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In the past years, invisibility cloaks were developed for various senses. Objects can be hidden from light, heat or sound. However, hiding of an object from being touched still remained to be accomplished. KIT scientists ...
Materials Science
Jun 20, 2014
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Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The new devices enable electro-optical control of polarization, ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 4, 2024
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The fabrication of shape-memory hydrogel scaffolds not only requires biocompatibility, micrometer resolution, high mechanical strength, but also requires a low polymerisation threshold in high-water content environment to ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 21, 2021
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3-D printing by direct laser writing produces micrometer-sized structures with precisely defined properties. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed a method to erase the ink used for 3-D ...
Materials Science
May 2, 2017
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