Technology could avert capacity crunch by enhancing bandwidth while reducing energy consumption. Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with…
Optoelectronic integration at low temperatures using superconductors may be easier than at room temperatures using semiconductors. As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are…
A revolutionary technique gives scientists an unparalleled close-up view inside fleeting particles called excitons. In a world-first, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and…
New soft, responsive metamaterial holds potential for wide variety of societal benefits. Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of…
Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than 26 percent efficiency. There is…
It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to process information in quantum computers. It has long…
Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers lies at the core of optical communications. With an incredibly low loss of 0.2 dB/km,…
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have devised and implemented a simplified algorithm for turning freely drawn lines into holograms on a standard desktop CPU. They…
Pioneering study co-led by Berkeley Lab has significance for next-gen information technologies. A decade ago, the discovery of quasiparticles called magnetic skyrmions provided important new…
Filling a Crucial Gap in the Materials Spectrum A new study, out this week, could pave the way to next-generation, transparent electronics. Such see-through devices…
From microwave ovens to Wi-Fi connections, the radio waves that permeate the environment are not just signals of energy consumed but are also sources of…
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Northwestern University researchers create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could help put more power in…
Despite the enormous amount of research over the decades into lasers and their applications, there have been few ways to accurately, efficiently, and directly observe…
The first images of mid-infrared optical waves compressed 1,000 times captured using a highly sensitive scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope. KAIST researchers and their collaborators…
Some 5G technologies are still considered the wild west in material, design development. 5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted…
The digital data generated around the world every year is now counted in zettabytes, or trillions of billions of bytes — equivalent to delivering data…
Researchers at the University of Ottawa have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics – the science and technology of light –…
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon, thanks to an international collaboration of researchers from Penn State and the University of Electronic Science…