To celebrate the International Year of Light, Nanotechnology ™ produced a focus collection of some of the most exciting developments
in nanophotonics.
In a research article «3D Nano - scale Imaging by Plasmonic Brownian Microscopy» published today
in Nanophotonics, the team around Prof. Xiang Zhang from the University of California in Berkeley demonstrate a method with stunning properties.
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In nanophotonics, applied and fundamental research go hand in hand because a deep understanding of the fundamental physics is what allows us to optimize particle design.
The result: a successful research career
in nanophotonics that spans the divide between academia and industry.
Not exact matches
Further discoveries found these breakthroughs could have an impact
in areas such as enhanced infrared or molecular spectroscopy, improved functionality for
nanophotonic circuits and devices for use
in infrared cameras, detectors and weapons guidance systems, and tailored thermal emission sources.
These results provide the first foray into natural hyperbolic materials as building blocks for
nanophotonic devices
in the mid-infrared to terahertz (THz) spectral range.
«World record
in silicon integrated
nanophotonics: More energy efficiency
in the data communication.»
The innovation, the latest from Rice's Laboratory for
Nanophotonics (LANP), is described online
in a paper
in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
Using engineered
nanophotonic materials the team was able to strongly suppress how much heat - inducing sunlight the panel absorbs, while it radiates heat very efficiently
in the key frequency range necessary to escape Earth's atmosphere.
In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy - intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for
Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts.
This cooperation between
nanophotonics, nanochemistry and nanophysics research has provided the tools to manipulate and analyze nanoparticles
in ways that have, until now, been beyond our reach.
Co-researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani said the ANU team's achievement was a big milestone
in the field of
nanophotonics, which involves the study of behaviour of light and interaction of objects with light at the nano - scale.
This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader of the Ultrafast
Nanophotonics group
in the Department of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU)
in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR)
in Milan, the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the University of Hamburg.
The results are reported
in a paper published online by the Journal of
Nanophotonics on May 21.
Quantum dots
in atomically thin semiconductors could not only provide a framework to explore the fundamental physics of how they interact, but also enable
nanophotonics applications, the researchers say.
For sustained contributions to the field of biophotonics, spanning over thirty years and encompassing outstanding research, technology development, clinical translation and training and education,
in the areas of light dosimetry, photodynamic therapy fluorescence and Raman endoscopy, microscopy and
nanophotonics
Lyncée Tec will take part to Conference on Optical MEMS and
Nanophotonics (OMN 2018), which will be held
in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The discovery brings the worlds of spintronics and
nanophotonics closer together and might lead to the development of an energy - efficient way of processing data,
in data centres, for example.
We use the power of DNA self - assembly to build and test
nanophotonic devices such as plasmonic waveguides for application
in optical near - field communication, or for medical diagnostics and therapeutics.
Scientists from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), ITMO - University St. Petersburg, Menoufia Uni-versity, University of York, University of St. Andrews, Tyndall - Institute Cork, Sun Yat - sen University Guang - zhou, and Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht realized a novel effect
in silicon based optical waveguide chips which were particularly designed and fabricated for this
nanophotonic experiment.