Refraction in 2D Materials

17th September 2020 by Leave a Comment

New effect could aid 3D displays, virtual reality, self-driving vehicles

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Valley-Hall Nanoscale Lasers

17th August 2020 by Leave a Comment

Room-temperature low-threshold lasing from a cavity mode hosted within the topological bandgap of a nanostructure

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2D Material for Single Photon Emitters

22nd July 2020 by Leave a Comment

Emission properties can be adjusted simply by bending or straining the material at a specific location

Filed Under: Advanced Optical Materials, Light Sources, Nanophotonics, Optical Materials, Photonics, Quantum Photonics, Research News, Semiconductors Tagged With: , , ,

Strain-Engineered Photodetector for Silicon Photonics

25th June 2020 by Leave a Comment

Strainoptronics: First efficient 2D material photodetector for telecom wavelengths

Filed Under: Electro-Optics, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Optical Computing, Optical Materials, Optoelectronics, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Research News, Semiconductors, Silicon Photonics Tagged With: , , ,

Imaging Nanostructures with Aspherical Microlenses

15th May 2020 by Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Cameras, Detectors, Imaging, Lenses, Metamaterials, Nano Optics, Optical Materials, Optical Sensors, Research News, Sensors, Spectroscopy Tagged With: , , , ,

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

Filed Under: Cameras, CCDs, Detectors, Image Processing, Imaging, Optical Sensors, Research News, Sensors Tagged With: , , ,

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.

Filed Under: Light Sources, Optical Computing, Optical Materials, Quantum Optics, Quantum Photonics, Research News, Semiconductors, Ultrafast Lasers Tagged With: , ,

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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