Optics

Study: Pointed tips on aluminum 'octopods' increase catalytic reactivityCredit: Image courtesy of Lin Yuan/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 18, 2020) - Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical…

Credit: Arjun Iyer/Renninger lab/University of Rochester A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the "noise" interfering with the signals it transmits compared to the single-mode fibers now widely used, researchers at the…

Self-induced ultrafast demagnetization limits the amount of light diffracted from magnetic samples at soft x-ray energiesCredit: MBI Berlin Free electron X-ray lasers deliver intense ultrashort pulses of x-rays, which can be…

Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences WASHINGTON -- Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), submitted their findings to…

New all-optical imaging technique with an unprecedented frame rate allows scientists to visualize ultrafast transient phenomenaCredit: Zeng et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056002. High-speed cameras can take pictures in quick…

Mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibrationCredit: MBI Berlin One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced dynamics of molecules is to observe time-dependent changes in the structure of molecules,…

Automatic approach could enable precision fabrication of optical components and multimaterial structuresCredit: Shoji Maruo, Yokohama National University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an automated 3D printing method…

'Honey, I shrunk the detector'Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen / Roman Shnaiderman Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world's smallest ultrasound detector.…

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has demonstrated a way to use low-energy, visible light to produce polymer gel objects from pure monomer solutions. The work not only poses a potential solution to current…

Fast, sensitive dual-comb spectroscopy could be used for fast measurements of fast and non-repeatable eventsCredit: David R. Carlson, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder WASHINGTON…

Credit: Pickup, L. et. al./Nature Communications Researchers at the Hybrid Photonics Laboratories in Skoltech and Southampton (UK), in collaboration with Lancaster University (UK), have demonstrated a new optical method to…

Credit: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Penn State Solar cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells are still far behind more expensive, crystalline solar cells in efficiency. Now, a team of researchers suggests that…

Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive ultra-short…

HZDR team develops novel source for quantum light particlesCredit: HZDR/Juniks Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from now, quantum computers are expected to revolutionize database searches, AI systems, and…

Credit: Atul Kumar A team of Indian and Japanese physicists have overturned the six-decade old notion that the giant magnetic field in a high intensity laser produced plasma evolves from the small, nanometre scale in the bulk plasma . They…

Credit: JO Yxell/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, together with colleagues from other universities, have discovered the possibility to prepare one-atom thin platinum for use as…

UV radiation modifies DNA also far away from the entry point of light - publication in Angewandte ChemieCredit: (Photo: Arthur Kuhlmann, KIT) Ultraviolet light endangers the integrity of human genetic information and may cause skin…

In a very unusual way, the electrical and magnetic properties of a particular crystal are linked together - the phenomenon was discovered and explained at TU Wien (Vienna).Credit: TU Wien Electricity and magnetism are closely…