Imaging Nanostructures with Aspherical Microlenses

15th May 2020 by Leave a Comment

New concept of ultralong working distance spectroscopy with 3D-printed aspherical microlenses

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Non-Toxic and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

14th May 2020 by Leave a Comment

An international collaboration has engineered a new hybrid perovskite material with promising efficiency and stability

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Image Recognition in Nanoseconds

9th March 2020 by Leave a Comment

An ultra-fast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects

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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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Quantum Light in Thin Layers

17th October 2019 by Leave a Comment

A very special kind of light is emitted by tungsten diselenide layers and now explained.

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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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Optical Lenses out of 2D Materials

14th November 2018 by Leave a Comment

Ultrathin dielectric metalenses made of van der Waals materials

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Metalens Enables Full-Color Imaging

10th October 2018 by Leave a Comment

First flat lens for focusing a large range of colors of any polarization to the same focal spot

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Optical Signatures of 2D Materials

26th September 2018 by Leave a Comment

Theoretical methods to compute the maximum optical properties of 2D materials

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Nano-Imaging of 2D Materials

7th September 2018 by Leave a Comment

First observation of intersubband transitions in 2D materials via scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy

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