Scientists from Heriot-Watt University have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system, in a breakthrough for the manufacturing industry.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 4, 2019
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Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure less orderly. Ice, for example, with its crystalline structure, melts to become liquid water, with no order at all.
Condensed Matter
Nov 12, 2019
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In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass ...
Nanophysics
Sep 27, 2013
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Perovskites, once on the fringes of solar cell research, have fast become the "it" materials for advancing solar power.
Materials Science
Dec 16, 2016
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A study of electron dynamics timed to millionths of a billionth of a second reveals the damage radiation can do on a molecular level.
General Physics
Jan 21, 2022
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The prevalence of electronic devices has transformed life in the 21st century. At the heart of these devices is the movement of electrons across materials. Scientists today continue to discover new ways to manipulate and ...
General Physics
Sep 26, 2018
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Radiation damage lowers the melting point of the metal tungsten, an effect that could contribute to material failure in nuclear fusion reactors and other applications where materials are exposed to particle radiation from ...
Optics & Photonics
May 28, 2019
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Recently, a research group from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has observed periodic electron bunch fringes induced by the femtosecond laser field.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 11, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new compact and ultrafast, high-power yellow laser. The tunable laser exhibits excellent beam quality and helps fill the need for a practical yellow light source emitting ultrafast pulses of light.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 10, 2020
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Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high spatial quality has opened up possibilities for ultrafast and strong-field science. It is so important that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was given to Dr. Strickland and Dr. ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 19, 2021
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