UC Santa Cruz engineers use flexible silicone material to build an integrated optofluidic platform for biological sample processing and optical analysis

The flexibility of PDMS allows for novel ways of controlling both light and fluids on the chip. Using multilayer soft li…

Quantized magneto-optical effect observed in topological insulator

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have demonstrated that when a topological insu…

Researchers have found a way to non-invasively measure the intensity profile of light that is confined by disorder in na…

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photonics.

A new ICFO review on controlling Nanoantennas and Molecules at ultrafast timescales graces the August cover of ACS Photo…

When integrated into high-density power modules, the technology will lead to superior performance in terms of power dens…

The automated process is controlled by weaving a STEM instrument’s electron beam through a liquid-filled cell to spur de…

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of…

3-D ring structures made by high-intensity lasers could aid the design of powerful microscopes and more efficient telecommunication lines

he vortices travel along with the laser pulse at the speed of light and control the energy flow around it. The newly dis…

First use of quantum technology to create a random number generator that is both tiny and fast

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that c…

A group of theoretical physicists headed by Oriol Romero-Isart from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Informa…

The PML team is currently developing two types of force-measurement devices that use laser light to reliably create smal…

Researchers at the University of Rochester have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encryp…

Applied scientists led by Caltech's Kerry Vahala have discovered a new type of optical soliton wave that travels in the…

With its latest optical design, it takes two main mask tuning processes to the next level in terms of efficiency, accura…

NIST scientists have devised and modeled a unique optical method of sorting microscopic and nanoscopic particles by size…

As mentioned in the review, the researchers used optical synchronization of a mid-IR optical parametric chirped pulse am…

Researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering have discovered new optical techniques that enable separation b…

The research so far has focused on using photons emitted by the NV centers to create this interaction under a special lo…

Method Gives Scientists New Ways to Study Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature's Light Dependent Processes

Researchers used the UED instrument’s electron beam to look at iodine molecules at different points in time after the la…

Physicists have manipulated light with large artificial atoms, so-called quantum dots. Before, this has only been done s…