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A new active metasurface, the electrical-programmable graphene field effect transistor (Gr-FET), from the labs of Sheng Shen and Xu Zhang...

“This is a feat of nanotechnology at the highest level,” said senior author Federico Capasso. “It opens up a new way to structure light...

Researchers develop new design and fabrication method to make lightsails for interstellar travel

Researchers developed a compact, solid-state laser system that generates 193-nm coherent light — the first 193-nm vortex beam

For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimi

@ Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 3, 1214-1219, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c06238 Monolayer WS₂ on a graphene support for...

Artistic representation showing how the newly developed technique – Ultrafast Dark-field Momentum Microscopy – allows both bright...

An innovative fibre with a range of exceptional features, including the ability to emit light, self-repair when damaged, and respond to...

A research team at European XFEL and DESY has achieved a major advance in X-ray science by generating unprecedented high-power attosecond...

An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals – exotic materials that exponentially...

Researchers Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, and Takuro Ideguchi of the Institute for Photon Science and Technology at the University...

Spectrometers are technology for reading light that date back to the era of famed 17th-century physicist Isaac Newton. They work by...