A team of researchers from Denmark has solved one of the biggest challenges in making effective nanoelectronics based on graphene. The new results have just been published in Nature Nanotech... Read more
Scientists have discovered new particles that could lie at the heart of a future technological revolution based on photonic circuitry, leading to superfast, light-based computing. Current co... Read more
By using bacterial flagella as a template for silica, researchers have demonstrated an easier way to make propulsion systems for nanoscale swimming robots. A feature of science fiction stori... Read more
Electronics and light don’t go well together on a standard ‘CMOS’ chip. Researcher Satadal Dutta of the University of Twente succeeded in introducing a light connection into the heart of a s... Read more
Scientists fine-tune organic thin films with an eye toward biomedical devices Using DNA from salmon, researchers in South Korea hope to make better biomedical and other photonic devices base... Read more
Engineers create atomically thin superlattice materials with precision Control is a constant challenge for materials scientists, who are always seeking the perfect material — and the perfect... Read more
An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing. New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques... Read more
Neural networks could be implemented more quickly using new photonic technology “Deep learning” computer systems, based on artificial neural networks that mimic the way the brain learns from... Read more
When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science was a graduate student, his advisor gath... Read more
Photonics advances allow us to be seen across the universe, with major implications for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, says UC Santa Barbara physicist Philip Lubin Looking up... Read more
This “nanocavity” may improve ultrathin solar panels, video cameras and other optoelectronic devices
The future of movies and manufacturing may be in 3-D, but electronics and photonics are going 2-D; specifically, two-dimensional semiconducting materials. One of the latest advancements in t... Read more
A new method allows scientists at ETH Zurich and IBM to fabricate artificial molecules out of different types of microspheres. The researchers would like to one day use such tiny objects in... Read more
Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Thanks to an ingenious process, the nanowire lasers grow right... Read more
Scientists in Italy and France are pioneering the use of nanomaterials in compact, sensitive, extremely fast, low-cost terahertz detectors with tremendous potential in applications such as b... Read more
