Detecting light beyond the visible red range of our eyes is hard to do, because infrared light carries so little energy compared to ambient heat…
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Researchers say the device can tell with 95% percent accuracyHow close the measured value conforms to the correct value.”>accuracy if someone has a virus, a…
Artist impression of an artificial spider web probed with laser light. Credit: Optics lab TU Delft A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to…
Excitons in two-dimensional perovskites rapidly dissociate into free carriers beneficial for photovoltaic applications, just as bees holding electrons and holes meet and separate in the…
MIT chemists have come up with a way to control the unwanted blinking of quantum dots, depicted here as yellow spheres, without requiring any modification…
Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging. Scientists have developed new materials for…
Conceptual illustration of efficient illumination of photons to semiconductor lateral quantum dots, by using a surface plasmon antenna and excitation of electrons in the quantum…
Larger, overlapping scales in red and green begin to form their structural details midway through development (right). Each image is 75 μm wide. Credit: Anthony…
Artistic representation of electrons funneling into high-quality areas of perovskite material. Credit: Alex T. at Ella Maru Studios Researchers from the University of Cambridge have…
Researchers develop electrically switchable nanoantennas as basis for holographic video technology. Credit: University of Stuttgart/PI4, Julian Karst Real-Life Feeling at Online Video Conferences Video conferencing…
Magnetene could have useful applications as a lubricant in implantable devices or other micro-electro-mechanical systems. A team of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering and…
Researchers created a transistor-like ‘logic gate,’ which is a type of computational operation in which multiple inputs control an output, and embedded it into a…
Protein-based vaccine elicits strong immune responses in mice; approach could be used for other diseases. Currently available COVID vaccines require cold storage and sophisticated manufacturing…
Artistic visualization of interband collective excitations in twisted bilayer graphene. Credit: ICFO/Matteo Ceccanti An international team of researchers reports in Nature Physics on how light…
The researchers incorporated their sensor into a prototype with a fiber optic tip that can detect changes in fluorescence in the test sample. Credit: MIT…
Thanks to a new breakthrough that uses a specialized material only three atoms thick, scientists can control light more precisely than ever before. Credit: Caltech…
Schematic of optically levitating a nanoparticle with a metalens in a vacuum. The metalens focuses a laser beam to create chip-based optical tweezers. Credit: Kunhong…
Crystals of the material hexagonal boron nitride can be etched so that the pattern you draw at the top transforms into a smaller and razor-sharp…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers suspended bacteria in photosensitive bio-resins and “trapped” the microbes in 3D structures using LED light from the LLNL-developed Stereolithographic Apparatus…
Metasurface of split-ring resonators, partially overlaid with 3D colourmaps showing the simulated electric-field distribution. High-momentum magnetoplasmons lead to the break-down of polaritons (blue spheres with…