Using an enormous X-ray laser -- one of only two such machines on Earth -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Matt…

With pulsed laser deposition (PLD) you can achieve controlled growth of thin layers of certain materials. Here, a materi…

New features in this release are a new Candela plot viewer and an Automotive lighting toolkit. The new Candela viewer al…

Because standard silver coatings do not reflect well below 450 nm, aluminum coatings are often used in the UV. But since…

Researchers create exotic states that could lead to new kinds of sensors and optical devices.

Individual exceptional points are a peculiar phenomenon unique to an unusual class of physical systems that can lead to…

Work represents first step towards a levitated system combining optical, spin, mechanical degrees of freedom

Researchers have, for the first time, levitated individual nanodiamonds in vacuum. The research team is led by Nick Vami…

New method for self-organized nanostructures studied at the HZDR

Many semiconductor devices in modern technology – from integrated circuits to solar cells and LEDs – are based on nanost…

A new study from UNL physicists could inform the future production of 3-D movies starring light-driven molecular reactio…

Multi-element aspheric lens assemblies are now ubiquitous in consumer electronics devices such as mobile phones, tablets…

Researchers have showed theoretically that by tweaking a few parameters of the binding process, photons could travel sid…

Physicists from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials of ITMO University have experimentally demonstrated th…

With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of light s…

Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time.…

Their results potentially offer a simple way to improve the efficiency of electronic devices such as light-emitting diod…

Self-assembling nanoparticles take their cues from their surroundings

By using light – a favored means of generating nanoparticle self-assembly – to control the reaction, one can precisely g…

A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said…

Caltech engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible…

An astrophysics research group experimentally confirms its theories about the manipulation of asteroids and photon propulsion

To simulate a laser’s ability to deflect an asteroid, Travis Brashears led a group of students in tests that simulate sp…

ONFs are like the normal optical fibers that form the global telecommunications network, except that they are much thinn…

For the first time, a team of Caltech researchers and collaborators has found a way to observe—and control—this quantum…