Stanford Physicists Develop an Electrically Driven Polariton Laser
Making use of the unique physical properties of bosons, Stanford physicists have created an electrically driven polariton laser that uses less power than conventional lasers…
Making use of the unique physical properties of bosons, Stanford physicists have created an electrically driven polariton laser that uses less power than conventional lasers…
A biomedical engineering design team from Michigan Tech has developed an inexpensive skin patch that warns the wearer when it’s time to get out of…
By combining layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors, engineers have developed a wearable heart monitor that is thinner than a dollar bill. Most of…
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Vienna detail a new model of a quantum computer, the boson sampling computer. Harnessing the…
Researchers at the University at Buffalo are working on the development of organic photovoltaics that use polymers and small molecules that are carbon-based and can…
Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have constructed a micro-structured thermal cloak that molds the flow of heat around an object. By means of…
By designing a broadband metamaterial that more than doubles the range of wavelengths of light that can be manipulated, Stanford scientists have taken an important…
By adding a squaraine dye into polymer solar cells that are based on Forster resonance energy transfer, Yale scientists achieved a 38 percent increase in…
A new study and video detail the first controlled flight of robotic RoboBees. Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half…
Researchers at Princeton created a 3D printed “bionic” ear that exhibits enhanced auditory sensing for radio frequency reception, merging biologic and nanoelectronic functionalities via 3D…
A newly published study describes a new approach to converting non-food-based biomass into fuels, allowing researchers to generate a range of alkanes from a variety…
98 percent of lamp’s energy goes to lighting the street instead of the night sky. In a new study, a team of researchers reports the…
Using a technique called electrospinning, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed an exceptionally thin polyacrylonitrile nanofiber that is both strong and tough. University…
A team of researchers have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes LEDs to be less efficient at high drive currents. Researchers at…
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, discovering that…
Nanoscientists from the Argonne National Laboratory have viewed the self-assembly of nanoparticle chains in real-time, providing new data that could lead to new materials used…
A new study from researchers at the University of Cincinnati details how solar-powered proteins can be used to filter antibiotics and other harmful compounds from…
In a newly published study, MIT researchers detail the technique they used to develop a photovoltaic device that generates more than one electron per photon,…