Bye-bye lens, hello metasurface. So-called metasurfaces can help to make optical systems thinner in the future, while at the same time increasing their functionality.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 26, 2023
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Astronomers and amateurs alike know the bigger the telescope, the more powerful the imaging capability. To keep the power but streamline one of the bulkier components, a Penn State-led research team created the first ultrathin, ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2023
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Structural colors result from interactions between light and nanostructures. Engineering structural colors is a promising, rapidly emerging research field. Compared with conventional painting technology using chemical dyes, ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 10, 2022
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As our world modernizes faster than ever before, there is an ever-growing need for better and faster electronics and computers. Spintronics is a new system which uses the spin of an electron, in addition to the charge state, ...
Nanophysics
Nov 3, 2022
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Atoms do weird things when forced out of their comfort zones. Rice University engineers have thought up a new way to give them a nudge.
Nanophysics
Jun 6, 2022
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New research artificially creating a rare form of matter known as spin glass could spark a new paradigm in artificial intelligence by allowing algorithms to be directly printed as physical hardware. The unusual properties ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 28, 2022
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When biologists study cells under a microscope, they look at them on flat surfaces that are nothing like the environment inside the human body. Now, researchers at NTNU have found a way to mimic some aspects of a cell's native ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 9, 2022
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Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored "digital characters" to modernize optical storage. They are confident the advancement will help with the explosion of remote ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2021
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University at Buffalo researchers are reporting an advancement of a chemical sensing chip that could lead to handheld devices that detect trace chemicals—everything from illicit drugs to pollution—as quickly as a breathalyzer ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 11, 2021
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Using modern nanotechnology, it is possible nowadays to produce structures which have a feature sizes of just a few nanometres. This world of the most minute particles—also known as quantum systems—makes possible a wide ...
Nanophysics
Nov 23, 2020
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