The Lightest Mirror in the World

31st July 2020 by Leave a Comment

As few as 100 atoms can reflect light when they act as a collective quantum system

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Antennas for Angstrom Displacement Sensing

30th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

Surface plasmon polaritons help to measure lateral displacements down to angstrom level

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Comb on a Chip

26th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

New design for optical ruler could revolutionize clocks, telescopes and telecommunications

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Nanomaterial Gives Robots Chameleon Skin

23rd June 2020 by Leave a Comment

New features include unusual color changes and high touch sensitivity

Filed Under: Displays, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Nanotechnology, Optical Materials, Optical Sensors, Plasmonic, Research News Tagged With: , , , , ,

A Pause Button for Light

19th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

A hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber filled with laser-cooled atoms might serve as single photon source

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Superlens Squeezes Light into Nanospace

18th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

Plasmon nanojet: an efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmons

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New Approach for Multi-Watt Terahertz Lasers

17th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

Highest radiative efficiency for any single-wavelength semiconductor quantum cascade laser

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Smallest Cavity for Light

15th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

A new type of cavity for graphene plasmons by integrating metallic cubes of nanometer sizes over a graphene sheet

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Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Displays

20th May 2020 by Leave a Comment

New approach uses a switching mechanism of plasmonic pixels based on magnesium

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Nanoslits for Valleytronics

10th February 2020 by Leave a Comment

2D material can emit light with valley-dependent circular polarization

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