/ 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. Scientists at the Department of Applied Â鶹ÒùÔºics II of the University of Malaga have participated in the design of a new technology that controls fluids and particles in three dimensions through virtual thermal barriers generated using light. /news/2025-09-driven-thermal-barriers-fluid-dimensions.html Optics & Photonics Soft Matter Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:57:03 EDT news678020221 A team of scientists at Simon Fraser University's Quantum Technology Lab and leading Canada-based quantum company Photonic Inc. have created a new type of silicon-based quantum device controlled both optically and electrically, marking the latest breakthrough in the global quantum computing race. /news/2025-09-physicists-electrically-silicon-based-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:51:04 EDT news677418661 Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance, quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky, energy-hungry tabletop devices. /news/2025-09-spectrum-microchip.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:00:01 EDT news676799941 A new era is beginning where it's possible to precisely assess the body's health status using only sweat instead of blood tests. A KAIST research team has now developed a smart patch that can precisely observe internal changes through sweat when simply attached to the body. This is expected to greatly contribute to the advancement of chronic disease management and personalized health care technologies. /news/2025-09-smart-patch-blood.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:01:04 EDT news676540861 Optical frequency combs are specially designed lasers that act like rulers to accurately and rapidly measure specific frequencies of light. They can be used to detect and identify chemicals and pollutants with extremely high precision. /news/2025-08-ultrabroadband-laser-enable-rapid-identification.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:17:04 EDT news674918221 Skyrmions are localized, particle-like excitations in materials that retain their structure due to topological constraints (i.e., restrictions arising from properties that remain unchanged under smooth deformations). These quasiparticles, first introduced in high-energy physics and quantum field theory, have since attracted intense interest in condensed matter physics and photonics, owing to their potential as robust carriers for information storage and manipulation. /news/2025-08-experimental-quantum-optical-skyrmions-semiconductor.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:30:01 EDT news674226132 In nanophotonics, tiny structures are used to control light at the nanoscale and render it useful for technological applications. A key element here is optical resonators, which trap and amplify light of a certain color (wavelength). /news/2025-08-ultrafast-asymmetric-silicon-metasurfaces-nanophotonics.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:00:04 EDT news673626408 How do left-handed and right-handed molecules differ? Researchers at ETH Zurich are using a new imaging method to visualize what was previously only measurable as an average, opening up new possibilities for biology and materials science. /news/2025-08-left-image-technique-reveals-chiral.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:44:04 EDT news673605842 A low-cost material made from clay—common in British soil—and vitamin B2 could one day help clean up pollution using only sunlight. /news/2025-07-clay-based-material-tackle-pollution.html Materials Science Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:45:36 EDT news672925531 In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light on the nanoscale, or billionths of a meter. /news/2025-07-ultra-small-optical-devices-rewrite.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:00:07 EDT news672915134 Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moiré superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional offset. This creates a new, larger interference pattern with completely different physical properties. /news/2025-07-programmable-dna-moir-superlattices-material.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:52:25 EDT news671971940 Optical biosensors use light waves as a probe to detect molecules, and are essential for precise medical diagnostics, personalized medicine, and environmental monitoring. /news/2025-06-scientists-illuminating-biosensor.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:05:18 EDT news670140313 A new wave of innovation is transforming the future of optical technologies, driven by rapid advancements in semiconductor nanolasers. These advances are essential for future applications such as on-chip optical communication and neuromorphic computing, which require compact, energy-efficient light sources. /news/2025-06-semiconductor-nanolasers-enable-ultra-efficient.html Nanophysics Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:41:59 EDT news670074110 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 Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new class of lanthanide-doped nanomaterials that exhibit extraordinarily high optical nonlinearity, exceeding a magnitude of 500. This achievement establishes a new global benchmark for photon avalanche nanophotonics. The paper is published in Nature. /news/2025-06-lanthanide-doped-nanomaterials-horizons-advanced.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:52:04 EDT news669545521 A research team has successfully visualized the ultrafast dynamics of quasi-particles known as excitons, which are generated in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) upon light excitation. /news/2025-06-excitons-motion-ultrafast-dynamics-carbon.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:00:07 EDT news669461517 In the nanometer range (billionth of a meter), interactions occur between light and matter that do not happen on larger scales. As such, so-called nanophotonic materials have unique optical properties that open up a whole range of technical possibilities. /news/2025-05-ultrathin-resonators-standard-efficient.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 29 May 2025 12:09:11 EDT news667739344 In a world increasingly driven by high-speed communication and low-power electronics, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has proposed a fundamentally new way of manipulating light using the geometry of matter itself. /news/2025-05-ballistic-electrons-gen-terahertz-devices.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 29 May 2025 10:15:03 EDT news667732501 Molding the flow of light—whether confined to localized regions or propagating in free space—remains crucial for modern integrated photonics. The advancement of the multi-channel, programmable optical waveguide and coupler arrays has enabled us to develop photonic integrated circuits (PICs) as a viable alternative to electronic ones, overcoming limitations in processing speed, bandwidth, and efficiency across the optical-to-microwave spectrum. /news/2025-05-topological-polycrystal-approach-configurable-multiband.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 08 May 2025 11:20:01 EDT news665914846 Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past efforts at incorporating such processes could not operate with the extremely low light levels required for quantum communication. /news/2025-04-nanophotonic-platform-boosts-efficiency-nonlinear.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:13:04 EDT news664701181 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices onto a single chip. /news/2025-04-physicists-compact-mid-infrared-pulse.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:00:11 EDT news663936961 A study from Technion unveils a newly discovered form of quantum entanglement in the total angular momentum of photons confined in nanoscale structures. This discovery could play a key role in the future miniaturization of quantum communication and computing components. /news/2025-04-quantum-entanglement.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:43:04 EDT news663579781 Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas sensing and optical computing. /news/2025-03-cascaded-mode-interferometer-waveguides-fiber.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:58:03 EDT news662119081 Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, published in Nature Communications, introduces new materials and production methods to create the thinnest large-scale reflectors ever made. /news/2025-03-scalable-nanotechnology-based-lightsails-generation.html Space Exploration Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:27:03 EDT news662045221 Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have made a discovery that could pave the way for a transformative era in photonic technology. For decades, scientists have theorized the possibility of manipulating the optical properties of light by adding a new dimension—time. This once-elusive concept has now become a reality thanks to nanophotonics experts from the School of Engineering and Â鶹ÒùÔºical Sciences in Edinburgh, Scotland. /news/2025-03-scientists-dimension-ushering-era-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:00:01 EDT news661434749 Researchers at the University of Twente have solved a long-standing problem: trapping optically-generated sound waves in a standard silicon photonic chip. This discovery, published as a featured article in APL Photonics, opens new possibilities for radio technology, quantum communication, and optical computing. /news/2025-02-scalable-generate-silicon-photonic-chips.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:37:27 EST news659111840 From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used to store information. /news/2025-02-quantum-advancement-crystal-gaps-terabyte.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:00:46 EST news658771225 Data security on the internet is under threat: in the future, quantum computers could decode even encrypted files sent over the internet in no time. Researchers worldwide are, therefore, experimenting with quantum networks that will enable a paradigm shift in the future when globally connected to form the quantum internet. /news/2025-02-exploiting-photon-high-quantum-internet.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:10:18 EST news658505402 Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a longstanding collaboration between Arka Majumdar, a University of Washington (UW) professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. /news/2025-02-compact-camera.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:33:35 EST news657974006 Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex. Understanding and harnessing them is one of the major challenges for the development of quantum technologies. /news/2025-01-harnessing-atom-interactions-stable-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:00:28 EST news657216021