Capturing Light in a Waveguide Array

5th June 2018 by Leave a Comment

Topological crystalline structures confine light to improve lasers and solar cells

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Nanodiamond Turns Into a Light Source

3rd May 2018 by Leave a Comment

Nanoantennas based on nanodiamonds with nitrogen-vacancy centres coupled to Mie resonances of nanoparticles

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Squeezing Light to One Atom

24th April 2018 by Leave a Comment

New kind of graphene-heterostructures provides a powerful and versatile platform for nanophotonics

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Mimicking the Structural Color of Insects

17th April 2018 by Leave a Comment

Photonic crystals and plasmonic structures made of a cellulose derivative

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Assessing Quantum Dot Photoemissions

16th March 2018 by Leave a Comment

Analysis of QD-photoluminescence using polyoxometalates as quenchers

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A Topological Insulator Laser

5th February 2018 by Leave a Comment

Lasing mode exhibits topologically-protected transport without magnetic fields

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Tuning Liquid-Crystal-Lasers

30th January 2018 by Leave a Comment

Lasing can be reversibly switched from the short-wavelength to the long-wavelength edge mode by applying a voltage

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DNA for Optically Active Superlattices

19th January 2018 by Leave a Comment

The change in DNA length provides extreme tunability of optical properties

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Optical Microstructures Using Lithium Niobate

15th January 2018 by Leave a Comment

An ultralow loss monolithic integrated lithium niobate photonic platform consisting of subwavelength waveguides

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How to Control Luminescence of C-Dots

15th November 2017 by Leave a Comment

Optical and photocatalytic properties of carbon dots can be tuned by nitrogen atoms introduced into their structure

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