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New Way to Control Heat Propagation in Photonic Nano-Sized Devices

Scientists from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and Thales Research & Technology, France, have found a way to control heat propagation in photonic nano-sized devices, which will be used for high speed communications and quantum information technologies. Their results are published in the leading American journal Applied Physics Letters on 30 April 2015.

11 May 2015

Ultrafast Laser Pulses Induce Atoms in Gold Nanodisks to Vibrate

In a study that could open doors for new applications of photonics from molecular sensing to wireless communications, Rice University scientists have discovered a new method to tune the light-induced vibrations of nanoparticles through slight alterations to the surface to which the particles are attached.

11 May 2015

Aalto University Researchers Discover New Way of Coupling Plasmonic and Magneto-Optical Effects

Aalto University Researchers have discovered a breakthrough method of arranging magnetic materials into arrays of nanoscale dots that modify light polarization strongly and controllably upon reflection of the beam from the array.

8 May 2015

Inexpensive Polymer Lens Transforms Smartphone Camera into a Microscope

Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens.

5 May 2015

Novel Device Turns Smartphones into DNA-Scanning Fluorescent Microscopes

If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes with your phone was somewhat advanced, hold on to your seat. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently developed a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.

30 Apr 2015

Canatu Unveils High Optical Transmittance CNB™ Transparent Conductive Films at Printed Electronics Europe 2015

Canatu, a manufacturer of next generation transparent conductive films and touch sensors, announces a new generation of high optical transmittance CNB™ (Carbon NanoBud®) transparent conductive films at Printed Electronics Europe in Berlin on April 28th, 2015.

From Canatu 28 Apr 2015

Nanotronics Imaging Launches New Method to Explore, Manipulate Materials at the Atomic Level

Nanotronics Imaging, developer of the world’s most technologically advanced nanoimaging solutions, today introduced nVisible™, a new way for Nanotronics customers to explore and manipulate materials at the molecular level and smaller.

25 Apr 2015

Photo-Reduced Graphene Oxide Patterns Can Produce Full-Colour 3D Images

From mobile phones and computers to television, cinema and wearable devices, the display of full colour, wide-angle, 3D holographic images is moving ever closer to fruition, thanks to international research featuring Griffith University.

25 Apr 2015

NSF Grant to Help UT Arlington Engineer Develop Nanostructured Photonic Materials

A University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering researcher will use a National Science Foundation grant to discover as-yet-unknown materials that will provide better imaging, compute faster or make communications more secure.

25 Apr 2015

Scientists Study Formation and Migration of Polarons Using Photoactive Zinc Oxide Material

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have unveiled an important step in the conversion of light into storable energy: Together with scientists of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the Aalto University in Helsinki/Finland, they studied the formation of so-called polarons in zinc oxide.

24 Apr 2015

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

New Way to Control Heat Propagation in Photonic Nano-Sized Devices

Ultrafast Laser Pulses Induce Atoms in Gold Nanodisks to Vibrate

Aalto University Researchers Discover New Way of Coupling Plasmonic and Magneto-Optical Effects

Inexpensive Polymer Lens Transforms Smartphone Camera into a Microscope

Novel Device Turns Smartphones into DNA-Scanning Fluorescent Microscopes

Canatu Unveils High Optical Transmittance CNB™ Transparent Conductive Films at Printed Electronics Europe 2015

Nanotronics Imaging Launches New Method to Explore, Manipulate Materials at the Atomic Level

Photo-Reduced Graphene Oxide Patterns Can Produce Full-Colour 3D Images

NSF Grant to Help UT Arlington Engineer Develop Nanostructured Photonic Materials

Scientists Study Formation and Migration of Polarons Using Photoactive Zinc Oxide Material

Nanopore-Based Sensor Enables Rapid and Precise Disease Diagnosis

Combining Nanofluids and Turbulators for Sustainable Energy

Multiscale Force Sensing with Photon-Avalanching Nanocrystals

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Enhancing Material Properties through Nanotube Encapsulation

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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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