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Optics & Photonics Feb 25, 2020

Team demos breakthrough in analog image processing

A research team of Vanderbilt engineers that includes a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated a new ultrathin filter, based on metamaterials, that allows for analog optical image processing. Their work, ...

Materials Science Feb 18, 2020

When less is more: Designer slits make glasslike materials much stronger

By making specially designed slits in Plexiglas, Danish researchers have made it stronger, lighter and more flexible. The new knowledge could be used to make microchips, for example, much more durable.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Feb 18, 2020

In acoustic waves, engineers break reciprocity with 'spacetime-varying metamaterials'

Reciprocity isn't always a good thing.

Condensed Matter Feb 13, 2020

Fragile topology: Two new studies explain the strange electron flow in future materials

Electrons race along the surface of certain unusual crystalline materials, except that sometimes they don't. Two new studies from Princeton researchers and their collaborators explain the source of the surprising behavior ...

Materials Science Feb 5, 2020

Fastest high-precision 3-D printer

3-D printers working in the millimeter range and larger are increasingly used in industrial production processes. Many applications, however, require precise printing on the micrometer scale at a far higher speed. Researchers ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Feb 3, 2020

Scientists discover hidden symmetries, opening new avenues for material design

When you knock on a melon to see if it's ripe, you are using sound waves to probe the structure of the material inside. Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists at the University of Chicago were using the same concept to explore how sound waves travel ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 27, 2020

Topological defects produce exotic mechanics in complex metamaterials

Metamaterials have properties that depend on their shape and architecture. Researchers at AMOLF, Leiden University and Tel Aviv University have found a new way of designing these metamaterials and their properties by deliberately ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 10, 2020

Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network

Analog machine learning hardware offers a promising alternative to digital counterparts as a more energy efficient and faster platform. Wave physics based on acoustics and optics is a natural candidate to build analog processors ...

Materials Science Dec 20, 2019

Using a material's 'memory' to encode unique physical properties

A new study published in Science Advances found that certain types of materials have a "memory" of how they were processed, stored, and manipulated. Researchers were then able to use this memory to control how a material ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 13, 2019

Study leads to new approach to trapping light in photonic kagome crystals

A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online.

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