Thanks to its speed and flexibility in surface design, the LBF process is particularly well suited for cost-effective sh…

Researchers use impurities in diamonds to develop systems capable of peering into samples as small as single cells

A senior physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a member of the physics department faculty, Wa…

A study published in Science reports on how ICFO researchers, with MIT and Univ. of Minho, are able to confine and guide light down to a space of 1-atom thick in dimension.

They sent infrared light through their devices and observed how the plasmons propagated in between the metal and the gra…

In order to demonstrate such capabilities, the authors designed and fabricated assemblies of gold nanorods with well-def…

Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.

In the latest issue of Nature, a team of 18 researchers, led by the same MIT, Berkeley, and BU groups, reports another b…

YNU and NTT researchers observed petahertz electron oscillation using chromium doped sapphire solid-state material

The benefits of this study are directly related to the control of various optical phenomena through the dielectric polar…

PTB performs the first optical measurements of the properties of an unusual nucleus

Researchers have now performed the first-ever measurements – using optical methods – of some important properties of thi…

Physicists from ITMO University and University of Sheffield have created a photonic analogue of a Lieb lattice and confi…

In experiments by Aalto researchers, the condensed particles were mixtures of light and electrons in motion in gold nano…

Rice University scientists corral, quantify subtle movement in condensed matter system

The technique could lead to a greater understanding of theoretical predictions in quantum phase transitions because the…

Using short laser pulses, a research team led by Misha Ivanov of the Max Born Institute in Berlin together with scientis…

Pocket accelerator combines four functions in one device

One of the central features of the device is its perfect timing with the electron beam. The scientists achieve this by u…

A universal design for superconducting qubits has been created

The new qubit is based on the effect of quantum phase slip - the controlled periodic failure and recovery of superconduc…

UCSB/Google researchers in quantum computing professor John Martinis’ group outline their plan for quantum supremacy

Building a qubit system complete with error correction components — the researchers estimate a range of 100,000 to a mil…

A single oscillation of the electromagnetic field associated with such a laser pulse is sufficient to excite electrons i…

The researchers were able to detect genuine multi-particle entanglement between all neighbouring groups of three, four a…

This research is an important milestone towards a robust new quantum standard for the electric current, and could be cap…

The new family members are the 75mm MFX with a barrel focus ring, and the 100mm TFX with a focus knob for convenient foc…

The custom inks, aimed at forming silica and silica-titania glasses, allow researchers the ability to tune the glass’s o…

New device modulates light and amplifies tiny signals.

When a light source, in this case laser light, shines on the system, it causes electrons in the resonator to oscillate,…