Researchers from EMPA, the Swiss Federal Institute for Science and Technology, present light scattering enhancement at the absorption edge in dewetting droplets of cyanine dyes.
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Blue, Blue, Stable Optical Blue…
An international team suggest that coordination network materials, in particular MOFs, will be a useful platform for low-threshold lasers for diverse applications.
Kirigami/Origami-Based Reflectors for Beam Steering
Redirecting incident light towards a specific direction is a basic feat of engineering useful for large applications, such as redirecting sunlight onto solar panels or to provide greater illumination in a household, and for smaller applications, such as in optical...
One-Pot Solvothermal Synthesis of Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots
A facile one-pot solvothermal method that allows selective synthesis of pure graphene oxide (GO) and pure GO quantum dots.
Travelling through Space with Solar Sails
A solar sail device is developed that can be steered by electronically altering its transparency near the edges while requiring only a low amount of power.
Microfluidic Generation of Monodisperse and Photoreconfigurable Microspheres
The color produced by microscopically structured surfaces can be controlled by with the microfluidic preparation of monodisperse photoreconfigurable microspheres.
Plasmonic Effects Enhance Infrared Detection
Researchers from Peking University demonstrate that a plasmonic contact electrode can enhance the performance of carbon nanotube infrared detectors.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – February 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – January 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
How to Grow Nanomushrooms
You can now include gold/silica nanomushrooms on your menu, as András Deák and co-workers recently published their generation in Particle.
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