Flexible Dielectric Glass Metasurfaces

13th February 2019 by Leave a Comment

The new production method employs a natural process already used in fluid mechanics

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Exotic Electron Liquid for Terahertz Detection

5th February 2019 by Leave a Comment

An electron-hole liquid may offer a path to room-temperature optoelectronic devices that harness collective electronic phenomena

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A Broadband Achromatic Metalens

22nd January 2019 by Leave a Comment

New device made of anisotropic nanostructures focuses light regardless of polarization

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Six-Color Holographic Color Print

10th January 2019 by Leave a Comment

Holographic colour prints can provide enhanced security in anti-counterfeiting applications

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Polarization Switching for Excitonic Circuits

7th January 2019 by Leave a Comment

New method to control exciton flows at room temperature for energy-efficient devices

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Extreme Asymmetry in Metasurfaces

2nd January 2019 by Leave a Comment

New devices can be good or bad reflectors depending on the angle the light hits them

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Metamaterial Changes Color of Light

19th December 2018 by Leave a Comment

A strong bulk second-order nonlinear response emerges in a plasmonic nanorod composite

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Giant Modulation of Visible Light

5th December 2018 by Leave a Comment

Nanoantennas made of achiral gold half-rings produce scattering modulation

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Metasurface Corrects Chromatic Aberrations

22nd November 2018 by Leave a Comment

A single-layer surface of nanostructures can be incorporated into commercial optical systems

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Bending Light Around Tight Corners

21st November 2018 by Leave a Comment

A new photonic crystal waveguide paves the way to build futuristic light-based computers

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