Optoelectronic Chips Reduce Energy Usage, Increase Speed
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. With novel optoelectronic chips and a…
Photonics
Nanotweezers Open the Door to New Innovations in Medicine, Mobile Tech
It’s difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could casually manipulate nanoscale objects at will or even control their own biological matter at a cellular…
MIT Physicists Create a New Form of Light Where Photons Interact
Try a quick experiment: Take two flashlights into a dark room and shine them so that their light beams cross. Notice anything peculiar? The rather…
Engineers Design New LED-Based Train Headlight Optimized for Energy Savings
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8…
Scientists Observe New Exotic Phenomena in Photonic Crystals
Topological effects, such as those found in crystals whose surfaces conduct electricity while their bulk does not, have been an exciting topic of physics research…
Physicists Improve Optical Efficiency in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
A team of physicists, headed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have demonstrated the means to improve the optical loss characteristics and transmission efficiency…
Researchers Develop Double-Pane Solar Windows That Generate Electricity
Using two types of “designer” quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for…
Engineers Develop Flexible and Stretchable Photonic Devices
Engineers at MIT have developed a new material that can be repeatedly stretched and flexed without losing its optical properties. Researchers at MIT and several…
NIST Researchers Develop Nanoscale Devices That Respond to the Angle of Incident Light
Imagine a miniature device that suffuses each room in your house with a different hue of the rainbow—purple for the living room, perhaps, blue for…
Light-Emitting Diode and Photodetector for Silicon CMOS Chips
Researchers from MIT have designed a light-emitter and detector that can be integrated into silicon CMOS chips. The huge increase in computing performance in recent…
Researchers Manipulate Nanoscale Particles with Light
Scientists from MIT have created in simulations the first system in which particles — ranging from roughly molecule to bacteria-sized — can be manipulated by…
MIT Engineers Develop Programmable Nanophotonic Processor
A team of engineers propose a new architecture for a fully optical neural network that, in principle, could offer an enhancement in computational speed and…
MIT Engineers Develop New Technique for Highly Conductive Graphene Wafers
By using an adhesive-like layer of nickel to peel graphene from silicon carbide, engineers at MIT have developed a technique to produce highly conductive wrinkle-free…
MIT Engineers Demonstrate Second-Order Nonlinearity in Silicon
New research from MIT reveals a practical way to introduce second-order nonlinearities into silicon photonics, showing that silicon can reproduce physical phenomena exploited by high-end…
New Technique Reveals Internal Characteristics of Photonic Crystals
Scientists at MIT have developed a new technique that reveals the inner details of photonic crystals, synthetic materials whose exotic optical properties are the subject…
Yale Engineers Advance Quantum Technology With Photon Control
Engineers from Yale University have developed a new technique to control the frequency of single photons. The ability to control the frequency of single photons…
Quantum Physics – Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
New experiments in Calgary tested quantum teleportation in actual infrastructure, representing a major step forward for the technology. Quantum physics is a field that appears…
New Research Opens New Realms of Light-Matter Interaction
A new study from MIT shows that some “forbidden” light emissions are in fact possible, and could enable new sensors and light-emitting devices. A new…