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Overcoming Mobility-Stability Trade-Off in TFTs Could Pave the Way for New Display Technologies

Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOS) are a promising option for the next generation of display technologies due to their low costs and high electron (charge carrier) mobility.

17 Dec 2021

Novel Tool for Investigating the Quantum Characteristics of ‘Combs’ of Light

Unlike the jumble of frequencies produced by the light that surrounds us in daily life, each frequency of light in a specialized light source known as a "soliton" frequency comb oscillates in unison, generating solitary pulses with consistent timing.

17 Dec 2021

Color-Sorting Metalenses Boost Imaging Sensitivity

Researchers have shown that newly designed pixel-scale metasurface lenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to manipulate light — can be used to make imaging sensors that are roughly three times more sensitive than those used today.

16 Dec 2021

Researchers Demonstrate a New Level of Stretchability of Photodetectors

Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries.

16 Dec 2021

New Method for Producing Stable Perovskites Could Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a new process for producing stable perovskite materials to create more efficient solar cells.

16 Dec 2021

A Nanocomposite Could Help Improve Medical Imaging and Security Screening

A nanocomposite that absorbs X-rays and then, with nearly perfect efficiency, re-emits the captured energy as light, could help to improve high-resolution medical imaging and security screening.

16 Dec 2021

Novel Computational Model Accurately Predicts the Properties of Photonics Materials

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have designed a novel computational model that accurately predicts the properties of photonics materials, paving the way for next-generation photonics devices.

16 Dec 2021

Study Illustrates Metasurface-Driven Optically Variable Devices for Anti-Counterfeiting

The increasing risk of advanced counterfeits always poses a need for a security device that can combat them. A technology never known before can be utilized in security devices. However, it is hard to make a comparison of their strengths as no standards were available to quantify their performance.

15 Dec 2021

Novel Laser Spectrometer for Highly Precise Measurement of Greenhouse Gases

Nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon monoxide (CO) are important drivers in global warming. However, there are many difficulties in reliable monitoring, especially for N2O, as the concentration of N2O in atmospheric is only a few hundred parts per billion.

15 Dec 2021

QUEST Researchers Move Closer to Developing More Accurate Optical Atomic Clocks

Laser beams can do more than just heat things up; they can cool them down too. That is nothing new for physicists who have devoted themselves to precision spectroscopy and the development of optical atomic clocks.

14 Dec 2021

Researchers Predict the Existence of Split Photons

Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers.

14 Dec 2021

Synchronisation is More Readily Achieved in Many Systems than Previously Thought

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin have unlocked the secret that explains how large groups of individual "oscillators" – from flashing fireflies to cheering crowds, and from ticking clocks to clicking metronomes – tend to synchronise when in each other's company.

14 Dec 2021

Ultra-Rapid Cryo-Arrest Microscope for Observing Molecular Patterns of Life

Fluorescence light microscopy has the unique ability to observe cellular processes over a scale that bridges four orders of magnitude. Yet, its application to living cells is fundamentally limited by the very rapid and unceasing movement of molecules that define its living state.

14 Dec 2021

Losing Isn’t Always Bad: Gaining Topology from Loss

Losing particles can lead to positive, robust effects. An international collaboration has demonstrated a novel topology arising from losses in hybrid light-matter particles, introducing a new avenue to induce the highly-prized effects inherent to conventional topological materials, which can potentially revolutionise electronics.

14 Dec 2021

Cirdan Launches “Photonics” Certificate, Facilitating Investment into the World’s First Photonics Index

The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) is excited to announce that Cirdan Capital Management, with collaboration from C8 Technologies, has launched a Certificate based on the Solactive EPIC Core Photonics Index.

14 Dec 2021