Photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) is a promising technology that can completely revolutionize what lasers ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

New research led by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Scientists have discovered a centrosymmetric crystal that behaves as though it is chiral – absorbing left- and right-handed ...

Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

Prepare for a radical acceleration in technological development. A Google Deepmind AI has achieved "an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity," finding about 800 years ...

By combining the fabricated colored radiation-cooling liquid crystal material with an upper transparent film and a lower metallic thin film, the team was able to achieve a temperature of about 30. ...

Researchers have developed a novel material using nanocrystals that converts light into a mechanical force able to lift 1,000 times its mass, opening the door for wireless, remote-controlled ...