The latest release, TracePro v7.6, includes the capability to create repetitive features on curved surfaces, new diffuse…

Particles of light can, in principle, carry and deliver an unlimited amount of information between two remote places. Th…

Tight collaboration with leading customers yields a state of the art standalone product for the most challenging 3D wafer fabrication processes

With its unique optical technology, combining high precision, superior accuracy and new channels of information, the Hel…

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets.

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object…

How molecular vibrations make photosynthesis efficient

The studied artificial light harvester is a supramolecule, consisting of hundreds of thousands of light absorbing molecu…

Researchers at EPFL and ICFO have developed a sensor made from graphene to detect molecules such as proteins and drugs.…

Imaging structure and response of atoms and molecules with powerful mid infrared electric fields in PRX

Time-resolved imaging of atoms and molecules is critical for understanding chemical reactions. To acquire such images, r…

Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface.

Researchers have developed a new technique that enables sensitive and specific detection of molecules at the electrode

With its touch screen operation and icon driven menus, the new Electro Optics Analysis software from Taylor Hobson is ma…

High Precision Alignment of a Lens in a Cell in 5 Degrees of Freedom

The system automatically aligns a lens within a cell in 5 degrees of freedom so that the optical axis of the lens coinci…

Supercomputer simulations pave the way towards compact terahertz sources with tunable wavelengths

In Physical Review Letters, scientists present a new concept that uses short-pulse lasers to expand the capabilities of…

A theoretical trick allows scientists to describe quantum states of thousands of atoms. If standard methods were used, all storage capacity in the world would not be enough to do this.

For a long time, quantum experiments were only carried out with a small number of particles. Even the behaviour of singl…

Researchers explore ultrafast control of magnetism across interfaces

A new study discovers how the sudden excitation of lattice vibrations in a crystal can trigger a change of the magnetic…

Researchers have demonstrated control over the emission direction from semiconductor nanowires. These nanowires are one…

The method involves the use of thin sandwiches of nanometer-scale metal-dielectric materials known as metamaterials that…

Researchers from Konstanz and Dresden succeed in light-controlled molecule switching

When a beam of light then hits the molecule, it switches from its open to its closed state, resulting in a flowing curre…

Researchers observe and control light wakes for the first time

For the first time, Harvard researchers have created similar wakes of light-like waves moving on a metallic surface, cal…

A flying microbead in a hollow glass fibre measures temperature, vibrations and electric fields with high spatial resolution.

Glass fibres can do more than transport data. A special type of glass fibre can also be used as a high-precision multi-p…

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials – which convert waste heat to electricity – and pressure to improve heat…