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Rice University Researcher Uses Light to Push Boundaries of Experimental Nanoscience

Rice University nanophotonics researcher Isabell Thomann uses lasers, light-activated materials and light-measuring nanoscale tips to push the boundaries of experimental nanoscience, but light is providing the pull in her latest study.

15 Dec 2016

Newly Developed Nanomaterial can be Stepping Stone for Rewritable Nanophotonic Circuits

When a military drone on a reconnaissance mission is seized behind enemy lines, a group of engineers work immediately to remotely delete sensitive information from the drone’s chips.

7 Dec 2016

IBS Scientists Develop New Optical Circuit Components to Control Light

The computers of the future could work nearly at the speed of light. Nanophotonics, the study of the behavior of light at the nanometer scale, could bring the speed of the current technology into a totally different level.

29 Nov 2016

Researchers Develop Silicon Nanoantenna that Scatters Light in Particular Direction

A group of physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), ITMO University, and The University of Texas at Austin have created a unique nanoantenna with the ability to scatter light in a specific direction based on the intensity of incident radiation. The outcomes of this research will help develop flexible processing of optical information in telecommunication systems.

17 Nov 2016

Scientists Demonstrate Light-Matter Coupling in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) and the Heidelberg University worked toward developing nanomaterials for optoelectronics, and have been successful in demonstrating, for the first time, a strong interaction exists between light and matter in semiconducting carbon nanotubes.

16 Nov 2016

New LEDs Hold Promise for Purification of Water in Remote Areas

A team of engineers from Ohio State University have created LEDs on lightweight flexible metal foil for the first time. They designed the foil-based LEDs for portable UV lights which can be used by soldiers and others to sterilize medical equipment and purify drinking water.

16 Nov 2016

Researchers Use Highly Conductive Gold Nanoparticle to Develop World’s Tiniest Optical Cavity

Light has been concentrated down to smaller than a single atom by researchers with the help of the strange properties of tiny particles of gold, allowing them to observe individual chemical bonds inside molecules, and making room for new ways to study matter and light.

11 Nov 2016

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Rice University Researcher Uses Light to Push Boundaries of Experimental Nanoscience

Newly Developed Nanomaterial can be Stepping Stone for Rewritable Nanophotonic Circuits

IBS Scientists Develop New Optical Circuit Components to Control Light

Researchers Develop Silicon Nanoantenna that Scatters Light in Particular Direction

Scientists Demonstrate Light-Matter Coupling in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

New LEDs Hold Promise for Purification of Water in Remote Areas

Researchers Use Highly Conductive Gold Nanoparticle to Develop World’s Tiniest Optical Cavity

Scientists Manipulate Surfaces to Make Them Hardly Reflect Any Light and Become Nearly Invisible

Nanoantenna Lighting-Rod Effect Allows Speedy Optical Switches

Behavior of Electrons in Graphene Similar to Light but Much Better

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

Novel Method for Producing Superior Carbon Nanofibers via Additive Nanostructuring

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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