Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) researchers have succeeded in fabricating single- and few-layer metal dichalcogenide two-dimensional (2D) triangular microplatelets ...
Using silicon fabrication technology, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has taken a huge leap forward in the development of phased arrays of optical nanoantennas...
Inspired by nature, materials scientists at Harvard University and the University of Exeter have invented a new fiber that changes color when stretched.
Researchers at the University of Vienna in Austria have created what they call a universal matter-wave closed-path interferometer; the gratings that steer the beams of matter ...
Two École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) scientists have developed a device that can create three-dimensional (3D) images of living cells and track their reaction to...
Fed by an optical waveguide, an optical nanoantenna can be used to emit infrared (IR) or visible light in a highly directional manner (just as a radio antenna does for radio waves...
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the US Army Research Laboratory have developed a methodology to trigger the folding process for microstructures from afar using low...
Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia and Université Paris Sud in France have recently accomplished self-assembly of silica microwire waveguides on hydrophilic ...
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, Aalto University, and the Royal Institute of Technology have created an achromatic Young's interferometer by inserting an achromatic...
Scientists in France and Singapore have both analytically and numerically modeled types of hybrid electromagnetic modes that they call plasphonic modes.
Ultranarrowband volume holographic grating (VHG)-based notch filters can extend the range of Raman spectroscopy into the terahertz regime using a single-stage spectrometer, yielding...
Software algorithms gather feedback from an active lens-to-sensor alignment process to adapt and improve camera performance for more efficient cycle times.
A novel fiber design with an optimized smaller diameter can survive bending and pinching, allowing consumers to create high-speed home optical networks.
A method for creating digital holograms of incoherent objects, dubbed Fresnel incoherent correlation holography (FINCH), creates holograms by a single-channel, on-axis, incoherent...
As backscatter x-ray full-body scanner systems lose ground in favor of the "nonionizing" radiation from terahertz and millimeter-wave scanning and imaging systems, safety questions...
Direct laser diode output, delivered in a line beam or through an optical fiber, is attractive for applications ranging from heat treating and cladding to welding. But the beam...
