The sensitizer molecules (green) absorb low energy photons (long-wavelength light) and become excited into triplet states. These triplet states are then transferred to nearby annihilator…
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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…
A superconducting silicon chip is used as an untrusted relay server for secure quantum communication. By harnessing the unique low-dead-time feature of the waveguide integrated…
Illustration of a system that produces the first optical lattice with sound. Light is pumped in through three sources – including via a digital mirror…
It is difficult to generate coherent visible light, like the light of a laser, that is intense for a short amount of time. An international…
Researchers in the lab of Qiang Lin at the University of Rochester have generated record ‘ultrabroadband’ bandwidth of entangled photons using the thin-film nanophotonic device…
A new method of quantum dot fabrication has been demonstrated by making use of intrinsic defects in LED materials. Through the formation of pyramids, localized…
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…
On-chip optical isolators for 780 nm and 1550 nm wavelengths, fabricated in lithium niobate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Ogulcan Orsel Light offers…
Topologically distinct photonic crystals (orange and blue) with a layer of hexagonal boron nitride on top enable coupling of topological light and lattice vibrations to…
Topological isolator as a multiplexer. Credit: Zhe Zhang / EPFL 2021 EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along…
In the singlet exciton fission process, a singlet exciton (blue) is created upon absorbing light and then splits into two triplets (red) on ultrafast timescales.…
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…
Upon illumination with red light, third harmonic scattered light (in violet) reveals the twist of metal nanoparticles. Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Lukas Ohnoutek Physicists at…
Prof. Chuanfeng Li and Prof. Zongquan Zhou from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) innovatively raised…
Light-emitting diodes made from perovskite nanocrystals (green) embedded in a metal-organic framework can be created at low cost, use earth-abundant materials and remain stable under…
A collection of atom pairs inside an optical cavity formed by a pair of mirrors facing each other. The light trapped between the mirrors turns…
Multiparticle scattering in plasmonic systems. Credit: LSU LSU Quantum researchers rearrange photon distribution to create different light sources. For decades, scholars have believed that the…
Complementarity relation of wave-particle duality is analyzed quantitatively with entangled photons as path detectors. The twenty-first century has undoubtedly been the era of quantum science.…
The researchers made use of the exceptional facilities of Micronova Nanofabrication Cleanroom. Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University New study published in Nature Communications is the first…