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Breakthrough Color-Display Technology Uses Aluminum Nanoparticles

The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology unveiled this week by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP).

16 Sep 2014

Researchers Realize Optical Control of 2D Nanomaterial Photo Luminescence

Plasmonic nanophotonics and two dimensional materials are hot topics for recent optics and condensed mater physics. How to combine surface plasmon and plat 2D materials, such as graphene and MoS2, and realize excitation light active control of material opto-electronic properties, is very important for the future application.

15 Sep 2014

Experimental Interferometer Helps Prove Magnetic Field for Light

In electronics, changing the path of electrons and manipulating how they flow is as easy as applying a magnetic field.

11 Sep 2014

Chemical Composition of Lithium Iron Phosphate Nanocrystals Mapped Using Ptychography

A record-setting X-ray microscopy experiment may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a collaboration of researchers used low energy or “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size.

11 Sep 2014

Ommaditias' Nanonipples Complicate Analysis of Common Fly’s Compound Eyes

In our vain human struggle to kill flies, our hands and swatters often come up lacking. This is due to no fault of our own, but rather to flies' compound eyes. Arranged in a hexagonal, convex pattern, compound eyes consist of hundreds of optical units called ommatidia, which together bestow upon flies a nearly 360-degree field of vision.

10 Sep 2014

Scientists Test Silicon-Based ‘Photonic Crystal Nanocavity’

Unlike electronic circuits, optical, or "photonic", circuits work with light rather than electricity, which makes them 10 to 100 times faster. They are also more energy-efficient because they show lower heat loss, better signal-to-noise ratios and are less susceptible to interference. Used especially for communications (e.g. fiber optics), optical circuits may use tiny optical cavities as 'switches' that can block or allow the flow of light, similarly to transistors in electronics.

9 Sep 2014

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

Breakthrough Color-Display Technology Uses Aluminum Nanoparticles

Researchers Realize Optical Control of 2D Nanomaterial Photo Luminescence

Experimental Interferometer Helps Prove Magnetic Field for Light

Chemical Composition of Lithium Iron Phosphate Nanocrystals Mapped Using Ptychography

Ommaditias' Nanonipples Complicate Analysis of Common Fly’s Compound Eyes

Scientists Test Silicon-Based ‘Photonic Crystal Nanocavity’

Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits Using Silver Nanowire and Atomically Thin Material

Innovative Method to Build Hybrid Nanostructures and Plasmon-Driven Photocatalysts

Laser Measures Nanomechanical Properties of Tiny Structures Undergoing Stress and Heating

Innovative Optical Amplifier Design by Combining Nanoplasmonics and Optical Microresonators

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

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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