Zapping Quantum Materials With Lasers Reveals How Atoms Relate
Lex Kemper is an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them…
Lex Kemper is an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them…
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are. The most modern light sources for…
A pulsed-laser repetition rate of 57.8 GHz was achieved by inserting a resonator containing graphene. The limitations of the manufacturing process were overcome by directly…
Lasing – the emission of a collimated light beam of light with a well-defined wavelength (color) and phase – results from a self-organization process, in…
Scientists from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most…
Researchers from Osaka University propose a concept for next-generation ultra-intense lasers, possibly increasing the current record from 10 Petawatts to 500 Petawatts. Ultra-intense lasers with…
Researchers invent a novel vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, the workhorses of data centers and optical sensors. Summary Researchers at the George Washington University have developed a…
A simple method developed at KAUST uses laser beams to create graphene electrodes that have better performance than those produced through older methods. Electrodes consisting…
The instrument could bring powerful sensing and imaging capabilities out of the lab and into hospitals, airports, or other settings. Researchers at MIT and the…
Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a laser to the infrared, a…
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers…
Milestone towards first practical applications of this innovative accelerator technology. A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone on the road to…
New design overcomes long-standing LED efficiency problem — and can transform into a laser to boot. A new design for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by…
The speed of a message traveling in these packets is no longer affected by traveling through different materials of different densities. University of Central Florida…
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN physicists have initiated unusual sound waves in a flake using…
Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elements. Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental…
Institute of Optics research sets record for shortest laser pulse for newly developed technology, work that has important applications in engineering and biomedicine. University of…
The most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed has gained its second satellite. The European Data Relay System (EDRS) was built to accelerate the flow…