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Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light

Researchers have now developed a natural-scale soft caterpillar robot with an opto-mechanical liquid crystalline elastom…

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An ICFO and Corning study on color customization of transparent silica surfaces makes it to the cover of ACS Photonics.

In a recent study published in ACS Photonics, researchers have demonstrated the use of dewetted metal nanocaps on transp…

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Novel state of matter: Observation of a quantum spin liquid

A novel and rare state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid has been empirically demonstrated in a monocrystal of th…

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Midwest Optical Systems Announces StablEDGE™

Filters with performance efficiency uncompromised by angle of incidence

StablEDGE™ is an innovative hybrid filter design that maintains critical spectral performance in imaging applications wi…

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Wi-fi from lasers

White light from lasers demonstrates data speeds of up to 2 GB/s

A nanocrystalline material that rapidly makes white light out of blue light has been developed by KAUST researchers. Whi…

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Record-breaking logic gate ‘another important milestone’ on road to quantum computers

The team achieved the logic gate, which places two atoms in a state of quantum entanglement and is the fundamental build…

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Seeing the invisible: visible light superlens made from nanobeads

Illustrating the strength of the new superlens, the scientists describe seeing for the first time, the actual informatio…

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How Shaping Light can Change Particle Behavior

To explore these particle interactions, the researchers trapped up to five particles using optical tweezers. They then m…

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The deuteron too poses a mystery

The deuteron — just like the proton — is smaller than previously thought

The deuteron is smaller than previous measurements have found. A deuteron is a very simple atomic nucleus made up of jus…

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The Next Generation of Adaptive Optics: PI (Physik Instrumente) and the Fraunhofer IOF Support Visualization of Exoplanets in the E-ELT

The E-ELT will have a segmented main mirror with a diameter of 39 m and a light collection area of almost

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Turbo for the broadband network

Scientists work on an alternative to carry data

Küppers is now offering an alternative – a laser diode that can be tuned in wavelength. The wavelength emitted by the di…

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Quantum correlations do not imply instant causation

A research team led by a Heriot-Watt scientist has shown that the universe is even weirder than had previously been thought.

A new experiment by an international team led by Heriot-Watt’s Dr Alessandro Fedrizzi has now found that the universe is…

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Innoviz Technologies Secures $9M in Series A Funding

Solution Will Enable Autonomous Driving

Innoviz recognized that the optimal sensing solution for Autonomous Vehicles is the LiDAR, a laser based sensor providin…

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Acoustic Prism Invented at EPFL

When sound is directed into the tube at one end, high-frequency components of the sound escape out of the tube through t…

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Two Become One: How to Turn Green Light Blue

Metal-Organic Frameworks with a Piggyback Structure Open up New Possibilities for Solar Cells and LEDs – Publication in the Advanced Materials Scientific Journal

The upconversion of photons allows for a more efficient use of light: Two photons are converted into a single photon hav…

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Ultracold atoms in a "Rydberg-dress"

Scientists at the MPQ (Garching) and MPIPKS (Dresden) have developed a novel technique to let atoms interact over large distances.

In the laboratory, the physicists start the experiment by creating an ultracold gas of the alkali metal rubidium-87 with…

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Force Sensing achieved with Graphene Opto-Mechanical Resonators

ICFO study achieves unprecedented ultra-sensitive force measurements with multilayer graphene optomechanical devices.

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, ICFO researchers have achieved unprecedented ultra-sensitive measu…

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Scientists Count Microscopic Particles Without Microscope

Scientists from Russia and Australia put forward a simple new way of counting microscopic particles in optical materials…

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$2 million to add efficiency to integrated quantum photonics

The research is expected to result in a new class of device technologies with previously inaccessible attributes and mer…

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Tailored AFM probes created via 3-D direct laser writing

A group of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers in Germany report using 3-D direct laser writing based on two-photon polymerization as a tool to fabricate custom-made probes for atomic force microscopy

A group of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers in Germany report using 3-D direct laser writing based on two-p…

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