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Discovery may Have Important Consequences When Using Anapole States in On-Chip Nanophotonics

Resonant on-chip photonics via high-refractive-index nanoparticles has opened up the possibility to shape the functional response of photonic integrated circuits with wavelength-sized building blocks.

13 Oct 2021

Bath Researchers Discover New Physical Effect Relating to the Interactions Between Light and Twisted Materials

Physics researchers at the University of Bath in the UK discover a new physical effect relating to the interactions between light and twisted materials – an effect that is likely to have implications for emerging new nanotechnologies in communications, nanorobotics and ultra-thin optical components.

20 Sep 2021

Reprogrammable Optical Metasurfaces for Achieving Nanoscale Light Control

Researchers have designed electromechanically reconfigurable ultrathin optical elements that can be controlled and programmed on a pixel-by-pixel level.

13 Sep 2021

Photo-Switchable Nanoripples in Two-Dimensional Molecularly Defined Sheets

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows to observe the motion of atoms at their natural time scales in the range of femtoseconds, the millionth of a billionth of a second.

3 Sep 2021

Femtosecond Laser Light Pulses Create Switchable Nano-Waves in MXenes

A spectroscopic technique called ultrafast laser spectroscopy enables the motion of atoms to be observed at their natural time scales in the range of femtoseconds, that is, one-millionth of a billionth of a second. By contrast, electron microscopy offers atomic spatial resolution.

2 Sep 2021

Challenges and Advancements of Supercapacitors Based on Laser Scribed Graphene

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.200079, Researchers led by Professor Min Gu from the Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics (CAIN), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China summarize recent developments, current challenges and future advancements of supercapacitors based on laser scribed graphene.

24 Aug 2021

Researchers Achieve New Threshold of Light-Matter Coupling at Nanoscale Level

A new threshold of light-matter coupling at the nanoscale has been achieved by physicists from the University of Southampton and ETH Zürich.

12 Aug 2021

Researchers Study Non-Linear Effects in a System of Two Coupled Optical Microcavities

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw demonstrated exciton-polariton lasing and parametric scattering of exciton-polaritons in a system of coupled optical microcavities.

11 Aug 2021

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Helps Monitor Dislocations in Silicene Sheet

People might visualize crystals as perfect structures, but they are usually plagued with “defects.” The interesting fact about these defects is that they often appear as a result of atoms experiencing reorganization to reduce the system’s energy and achieve stability.

29 Jul 2021