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Scientists Discover New Photonic Effect in Semiconducting Nanohelices

A new photonic effect in semiconducting helical particles with nanoscale dimensions has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Bath. The observed effect has the potential to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines and photonic technologies.

19 Jan 2022

New Technique to Convert Greenhouse Gasses into Clean Energy Using Photonics

A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.

19 Jan 2022

Radiant Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation in Imaging Metrology

REDMOND, Wash. – January 17, 2022 – Radiant Vision Systems announces its 30th anniversary as a leading provider of optical test and measurement solutions for displays and light sources. In celebration of this...

From Radiant Vision Systems 18 Jan 2022

Spin Qubits can be Potentially Useful for Quantum Networks that Employ Optical Fibers

Quantum computers may be able to solve science problems that are impossible for today's fastest conventional supercomputers. Quantum sensors may be able to measure signals that cannot be measured by today's most sensitive sensors. Quantum bits (qubits) are the building blocks for these devices.

17 Jan 2022

First-of-Its-Kind Smart Catalyst Turns Off When Illuminated with Light

Catalysts are compounds that enable and accelerate desired chemical reactions without themselves degrading and are pivotal in virtually all of applied chemistry.

17 Jan 2022

Research Could Open Up a New Route for the Realization of High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronics

Semiconductor electronic devices can be made of either inorganic crystals, formed by the strong bonding of atoms and ions, or organic crystals, which demonstrate weaker bonds held together by van der Waals forces (weak electric forces of attraction between neutral atoms or molecules that do not share a chemical bond).

17 Jan 2022

Waters Accelerates Quantitative Mass Spectrometry with New Application on waters_connect Informatics Platform

Waters Corporation today announced it is expanding its waters_connect™ informatics software platform to support customers analyzing food and environmental samples with Waters’ tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers.

From Waters Corporation 13 Jan 2022

TU Wien Produces an Extremely Simple and Compact Source of Terahertz Radiation

Terahertz radiation has a wavelength of typically a little less than one millimetre - a technically difficult range. Electromagnetic waves with longer wavelengths can be generated with ordinary electronic components (such as transistors) and antennas.

12 Jan 2022

Experimental Realization of Atom-Optically Synthetic Gauge Field for a Noninteracting Bose Gas

Gauge fields describe the basic interactions between charged particles and are responsible for various emergent topological phases of matter. This concept recently has been further generalized to charge neutral systems by engineering an analog Hamiltonian that governs the effective dynamics of neutral particles subject to magnetic fields.

11 Jan 2022

Review: Recent Progress and Applications of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), which have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion relation, are rising as an innovative method of manipulating light. HMMs have received tremendous interest in photonics for their applicability to various fields such as super-resolution imaging, negative refraction, and emission engineering.

11 Jan 2022

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