/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. /news/2025-06-glass-nanostructures-visible-photonics-assumptions.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:12:04 EDT news669906721 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a human hair. /news/2025-06-physicists-world-smallest-violin-nanotechnology.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:26:29 EDT news668168779 Laser frequency combs are light sources that produce evenly spaced, sharp lines across the spectrum, resembling the teeth of a comb. They serve as precise rulers for measuring time and frequency, and have become essential tools in applications such as lidar, high-speed optical communications, and space navigation. Traditional frequency combs rely on large, lab-based lasers. However, recent advancements have led to the development of chip-scale soliton microcombs, which generate ultrashort pulses of light within microresonators. /news/2025-05-chip-scale-soliton-microcombs-femtosecond.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 21 May 2025 15:40:30 EDT news667060828 Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell—without damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have made this discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron beams and purple-tinted microbes. /news/2025-05-cool-science-craft-tiny-biological.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 20 May 2025 12:26:04 EDT news666962762 In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, silicon spin qubits are emerging as a leading candidate for building scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers. /news/2025-05-silicon-qubits-gain-ground-candidate.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 12 May 2025 14:23:38 EDT news666278614 For decades, traditional lithography techniques—such as electron beam lithography and nanoimprinting—have struggled to meet the demand for ultra-fine, high-aspect-ratio structures in general. Similar difficulty also applies to metal-based radio-frequency (RF) components. Issues like poor thickness control, uneven sidewalls, and material limitations have constrained performance and scalability. /news/2025-05-deep-trench-3d-enables-gen.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 06 May 2025 13:22:10 EDT news665756519 The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has developed a compact, rapid pretreatment system capable of liquefying and homogenizing solid biological samples in under one minute. /news/2025-04-solid-biosample-field-ready-diagnostics.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:49:09 EDT news665153344 In a development that could reshape the future of microelectronics, optics, and biomedicine, researchers from Jinan University, in collaboration with the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have unveiled a new nanoprinting technology that simultaneously achieves unprecedented resolution and efficiency. /news/2025-04-quantum-photon-strategy-powers-generation.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:06:04 EDT news665057161 Researchers from Max Born Institute have demonstrated a successful way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits—the building blocks of digital data—using an ultrafast laser pulse and plasmonic gold nanostructures. The findings were published in Nano Letters. /news/2025-04-ultrafast-plasmon-magnetic-bit-nanoscale.html Nanophysics Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:03:24 EDT news664707798 If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in the journal Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade's nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny "tattoos" to test a microfabrication technique to build microscopic, biocompatible devices. /news/2025-04-scientists-tattoo-tardigrades.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:20:04 EDT news664618802 Researchers from ICMAB are revolutionizing how we manipulate light at the nanoscale using chiral plasmonic structures—nanomaterials designed to interact with polarized light in extraordinary ways. /news/2025-04-chiral-plasmonic-nanostructures-limits-nanoscale.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:58:03 EDT news663505081 Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and consist of an array of tiny structures known as meta-atoms. Meta-atoms influence light at a subwavelength scale and thus allow for highly precise control of the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light. /news/2025-03-efficient-meta-optics-conventional-lenses.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:34:02 EDT news662387641 Deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers, known for their high photon energy and short wavelengths, are essential in various fields such as semiconductor lithography, high-resolution spectroscopy, precision material processing, and quantum technology. These lasers offer increased coherence and reduced power consumption compared to excimer or gas discharge lasers, enabling the development of more compact systems. /news/2025-03-compact-solid-state-laser-generates.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:30:03 EDT news661775402 Nevada's desert landscape is filled with life that is hidden to human eyes. But when conditions are just right, typically following a particularly wet winter, billions of seeds burst to life in vibrant, colorful displays of blooms that can even be seen from space. /news/2025-03-blending-art-science-mojave-seedling.html Plants & Animals Ecology Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:23:06 EDT news661674182 From 2035, the Einstein Telescope will be able to study gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy. For the telescope, researchers from Jena have manufactured highly sensitive sensors made entirely of glass for the first time. /news/2025-03-glass-sensors-einstein-telescope.html Astronomy Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:20:01 EDT news661011418 From high-speed communication to quantum computing and sensing, the detection, transmission, and manipulation of light (photons) have transformed modern electronics. Central to these systems are photon detectors, which detect and measure photons. /news/2025-02-fabrication-method-advances-high-photon.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:20:00 EST news658671595 One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on "spintronics," which leverage both an electron's charge and its spin—the tiny "up" or "down" magnetic moment carried by every electron. Now, a relatively new subset of spintronics has sprung up, known as magnonics, which harnesses the collective behaviors of spins, known as spin waves or magnons. /news/2025-02-imaging-method-captures-dynamics.html Condensed Matter Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:40:06 EST news658586139 The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner, known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, has been exploring the idea. The concept is to use lasers to propel miniature space probes attached to "lightsails" to reach ultrafast speeds and eventually our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. /news/2025-01-interstellar-lightsails.html Space Exploration Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:22:05 EST news657472921 Microscale light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) are emerging as a next-generation display technology for optical communications, augmented and virtual reality, and wearable devices. Metal-halide perovskites show great potential for efficient light emission, long-range carrier transport, and scalable manufacturing, making them potentially ideal candidates for bright LED displays. /news/2025-01-perovskite-growth-method-ultrahigh-resolution.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:46:03 EST news656693161 University of Missouri scientists are unlocking the secrets of halide perovskites—a material that's poised to reshape our future by bringing us closer to a new age of energy-efficient optoelectronics. /news/2025-01-scientists-harness-power-layered-crystals.html Condensed Matter Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:29:03 EST news656692141 Paper-thin optical lenses simple enough to mass produce like microchips could enable a new generation of compact optical devices. A team with researchers at the University of Tokyo and JSR Corp. fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel zone plates (FZPs), but did so for the first time using only common semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the i-line stepper. /news/2025-01-simplicity-scalability-economical-compact-lenses.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:25:04 EST news656252701 In a breakthrough set to revolutionize the semiconductor industry, the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the world's first-of-its-kind deep-ultraviolet (UVC) microLED display array for lithography machines. This enhanced efficiency UVC microLED has showcased the viability of a lowered cost maskless photolithography through the provision of adequate light output power density, enabling exposure of photoresist films in a shorter time. /news/2024-12-deep-uv-microled-display-chips.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:58:47 EST news654778662 After dominating the electronics industry for decades, conventional silicon-based transistors are gradually approaching their limits, which is preventing engineers from further reducing their size without affecting their performance. To continue advancing portable computers, smart phones and other devices, researchers have thus been exploring the potential of transistors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials. /news/2024-12-2d-materials-boost-p-transistor.html Nanophysics Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:10:07 EST news653569321 The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in collaboration with the Australian National University, Canberra has demonstrated a novel way of steering a beam of relativistic electron pulses produced by an ultrahigh intensity, femtosecond laser. Their study is published in the journal Laser and Photonics Reviews. /news/2024-12-femtosecond-lasers-nanopillars-path-high.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:31:53 EST news653589103 In a world grappling with a multitude of health threats—ranging from fast-spreading viruses to chronic diseases and drug-resistant bacteria—the need for quick, reliable, and easy-to-use home diagnostic tests has never been greater. Imagine a future where these tests can be done anywhere, by anyone, using a device as small and portable as your smartwatch. To do that, you need microchips capable of detecting miniscule concentrations of viruses or bacteria in the air. /news/2024-12-tiny-chips-swift-disease-diagnosis.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:46:12 EST news653575564 Hydrogen is becoming an increasingly popular choice as we shift towards cleaner energy. It can be burned like traditional fuels, producing only water as a byproduct, and can generate electricity when used in fuel cells. However, as hydrogen production, use, and transportation increase, so do safety concerns. Hydrogen is highly flammable at concentrations as low as 4% and is odorless and colorless, making leaks challenging to detect. /news/2024-11-nano-patterned-copper-oxide-sensor.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:45:42 EST news651501936 In a recent study, researchers have developed a compound metalens that enables distortion-free imaging. The study, published in Engineering, presents a novel approach to on-demand distortion engineering using compound metalenses. /news/2024-11-compound-metalens-distortion-free-imaging.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:26 EST news650903713 Modern imaging systems, such as those used in smartphones, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) devices, are constantly evolving to become more compact, efficient, and high-performing. Traditional optical systems rely on bulky glass lenses, which have limitations like chromatic aberrations, low efficiency at multiple wavelengths, and large physical sizes. These drawbacks present challenges when designing smaller, lighter systems that still produce high-quality images. /news/2024-11-metalenses-harness-ai-high-resolution.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:34:28 EST news650903662 As electronic devices get smaller, it's becoming harder to achieve high-quality connections that are both reliable and safe from short circuits. Researchers developed the array-ACF (anisotropic conductive adhesives film) using metal-coated polymer microsphere arrays to make these connections years ago, but the bond between the metal and polymer could crack under pressure, affecting its performance. /news/2024-11-rapid-synthesis-gold-microsphere-array.html Nanomaterials Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:00:10 EST news650718002 As buildings age, the demand for effective monitoring of their structural integrity has grown significantly. A breakthrough in nano-optical sensor technology now enables precise, real-time measurement of structural deformation and stability. /news/2024-11-nano-optical-sensors-enable-safety.html Nanomaterials Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:38:04 EST news650014681