Formed by nanostructures that act as “atoms,” arranged on a substrate to alter light’s path in ways no ordinary material…

Rather than engineer complicated periodic structures that significantly alter the optical and magnetic properties of suc…

Using changes in refractive index to optically record data, holograms record in three dimensions instead of being limite…

Researchers have discovered a new way to tune electronic energy levels in some 2-D materials.

Now, in a paper published today in the journal Science, researchers led by Nuh Gedik, an associate professor of physics…

Scientists are creating innovative 2D layered hybrid perovskites that allow greater freedom in designing and fabricating efficient optoelectronic devices.

Industrial and consumer applications could include low cost solar cells, LEDs, laser diodes, detectors, and other nano-o…

Scientists use IBM-invented, Nobel prize-winning microscope to demonstrate technology that could in the future store all songs on iTunes library on the area of a credit card

Future scanning tunneling microscope studies will investigate the potential of performing quantum information processing…

These particles act as a transitional form between photons and electrons so the researchers believe that with excitons,…

The chip contains no metal or electrical components and needs no wiring. Instead, the light is sent light through a thin…

Light particles do not usually react to magnetic fields. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now shown how photons can still…

Plan Optik AG produces wafers from this high purity material in 100, 150 and 200 mm diameter. Thickness of these wafers…

Latest Release Helps Optical Designers Build Project Specifications and Manage Design and Performance Goals

In CODE V release 11.0, designers can use the SpecBuilder tool to create a comprehensive table of specs and goals tailor…

New IQ Aligner NT achieves double throughput and alignment accuracy over previous-generation platform; opens up new applications for EVG lithography solutions

Featuring high-intensity and high-uniformity exposure optics, new wafer handling hardware, full 200-mm and 300-mm wafer…

The team had proven the concept of a diamond-based quantum device to perform similar functions to these science fiction…

Scientists from the University of Geneva have perfected a technique based on the usage of graphene, that allows for terahertz waves to be controlled accurately, paving the way for numerous applications

Working within the framework of the European project Graphene Flagship, scientists have made a graphene-based transistor…

Scrambled and indecipherable messages are the back bone of the internet as we know it.

These devices distribute cryptographic keys using the quantum properties of entanglement, superposition and the absolute…

Made with the new material, the compact QCL frequency comb is one order of magnitude more efficient and emits more than…

This ability could have implications for optical computing, a type of computing in which electrons are replaced by photo…

IBM unveils roadmap for commercial “IBM Q” quantum systems - Releases API for developers to build interfaces between quantum computers and classical computers

The IBM Quantum Experience enables anyone to connect to IBM’s quantum processor via the IBM Cloud, to run algorithms and…

Supersolid is crystalline and superfluid at the same time.

By using lasers to manipulate a superfluid gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the team was able to coax the conden…

The authors captured videos of photons swirling around the semiconductor helices. Their measurements and computer simula…