Making it easier to monitor plants and their growth, a first-of-its-kind nanosensor could help safeguard healthy crops.

Advances in optical coatings enable optics to withstand extremes—even those in space and on the battlefield.

A new information processing approach proves light does not just carry information, but can also compute it.

Integrating novel magneto-plasmonic cryosorets onto a photonic crystal interface enables harnessing both electric and magnetic components of light—and it shows promise for highly...

Optical metasurfaces can control light by leveraging chirality—difference of a shape from its mirror image or its ‘handedness’—and it can be tuned via polarized light as a simple...

Laser welding innovations in sources and components are improving efficiency.

Laser welding techniques with intermetallic bond control and advanced monitoring systems improve the strength, safety, and reliability of cylindrical Li-ion battery module interconnects...

A superradiant phase transition (SRPT) occurs when two groups of quantum particles start to fluctuate in a coordinated manner—without an external trigger—and end up forming a ...