A collaborative research team has successfully engineered a dual metalens capable of switching between different imaging modes using a single lens. The research findings have been featured in ACS Nano.
Nanophysics
Oct 31, 2023
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Conical structures can have advantageous applications in a variety of fields, ranging from robotics to civil engineering. Studies have found that conical shells made of liquid crystal elastomer films can be effective lifters; ...
Microlens arrays are one of the key elements that are promising in autostereoscopic display, optical communication, wavefront sensing, integral imaging, etc. For example, microlens arrays are the critical components in integral ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 11, 2023
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Stishovite has the same chemical formula as silica quartz (SiO2) but it has much higher density. While SiO2 is abundant on Earth's crust, it is also a major component of basalt, a type of igneous rock that is rich in iron ...
Liquid crystal displays, touchscreens, and many solar cells rely on thin-film crystalline materials that are both electrically conductive and optically transparent. But the material most widely used in these applications, ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 4, 2023
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In today's world of digital information, an enormous amount of data is exchanged and stored on a daily basis.
Nanomaterials
Jul 25, 2023
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A research group led by Dr. Jialei He of Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering has developed a method for processing cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) into micrometer-sized spherical particles.
Materials Science
Jul 14, 2023
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In NMR spectroscopy, residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) have emerged as one of the most exquisite probes of biological structure and dynamics. The measurement of RDCs relies on the partial alignment of the molecule of interest ...
Biochemistry
Jul 3, 2023
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Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan University and Southern University of Science and Technology recently unveiled a possible connection between catastrophe theory, an area of mathematics ...
Researchers from the Holography and Optical Processing Group (GHPO) have succeeded in printing tunable materials for the first time using high-precision laser techniques. This development has been published in the journal ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 14, 2023
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