June 1, 2023 —Researchers have discovered they can detect atomic 'breathing,' or the mechanical vibration between two layers of atoms, by observing the type of light those atoms emitted when stimulated ...
May 31, 2023 —Optical probes have led to numerous breakthroughs in applications like optical memory, nanopatterning, and bioimaging, but existing options have limited lifespans and will eventually ...
May 31, 2023 —Research using the world's most energetic laser has shed light on the properties of highly compressed matter -- essential to understanding the structure of giant planets and stars, and to ...
May 30, 2023 —Researchers have demonstrated a novel concept for exciting and probing coherent phonons in crystals of a transiently broken symmetry. The key of this concept lies in reducing the symmetry of a ...
May 30, 2023 —Acoustic source-shifters make observers mis-perceive the location of sound by reproducing a sound emanating from a location different from the actual location of a sound source. Researchers have now ...
May 30, 2023 —Proteins are biological molecules that perform almost all biochemical tasks in all forms of life. In doing so, the tiny structures perform ultra-fast movements. In order to investigate these dynamic ...
May 30, 2023 —Scientists have managed to image delicate biological structures without damaging them. Their new technique generates high resolution X-ray images of dried biological material that has not been ...
May 30, 2023 —An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full ...
May 26, 2023 —The absolute internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) based blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at low temperatures is often assumed to be 100%. However, a new study has ...
May 26, 2023 —Scientists generate low-energy electrons using ultraviolet ...
May 25, 2023 —To overcome global energy challenges and fight the looming environmental crisis, researchers around the world investigate new materials for converting sunlight into electricity. Some of the most ...
May 25, 2023 —Ultrafast laser physicists from the attoworld team have gained new insights into the dynamics of electrons in solids immediately after ...
May 25, 2023 —Nuclear clocks could allow scientists to probe the fundamental forces of the universe in the future. Researchers have made a crucial advance in this area as part of an international ...
May 26, 2023 —Light is a very delicate and vulnerable property. Light can be absorbed or reflected at the surface of a material depending on the matter's properties or change its form and be converted into ...
May 24, 2023 —Scientists have found a new way to create a crystalline structure called a 'density wave' in an atomic gas. The findings can help us better understand the behavior of quantum matter, one of ...
May 23, 2023 —Researchers have made a breakthrough toward reducing the energy consumption of the photonic chips used in data centers and ...
May 19, 2023 —In nature, the skin of cephalopods (animals with tentacles attached to the head) exhibits unparalleled camouflage ability. Their skin contains pigment groups that can sense changes in environmental ...
May 18, 2023 —New experiments using one-dimensional gases of ultra-cold atoms reveal a universality in how quantum systems composed of many particles change over time following a large influx of energy that throws ...
May 17, 2023 —The connection between quantum physics and the theory of relativity is extremely hard to study. But now, scientists have set up a model system, which can help: Quantum particles can be tuned in such ...
May 10, 2023 —Adapting a detector developed for space X-ray observation, researchers have successfully verify strong-field quantum electrodynamics with exotic ...